What science to drop for year 12? (1 Viewer)

[ScienceGuy99]

Hello,

I'm in year 11 and my subjects are biology, chemistry, physics, maths, extension maths, advanced english and ancient history.

I'm dropping ancient history in year 12 because I don't like it at all and want the extra study time. But I also want to pick up extension 2 maths in year 12, so I'd be back to 12 units for year 12.

I want the extra study time and specialisation that comes with having 10 units... But that would mean dropping a science, and I don't particularly want to do that as I'm undecided on what area of science I want to go into

So my thinking is: If I can get some assistance with what science to drop and what field to get into during uni, I can get a great head start in year 12 by being so specialised in terms of my subject choices.

If you could just write about which two of the three sciences (bio, chem, physics) you would pick and why, I'd love to hear your opinion And also which field of science you think has the greatest potential in the future

 

[astroman]

Drop whatever you perform worst in, HSC sciences barely scratch the surface of what you will learn in university and in later life. It would be best to do subjects you can get the best ATAR with. If you are really concerned about which would be the best option for the future I would assume chemistry and physics, bio is pretty niche, only catering for health and sciences, chemistry and physics apply everywhere.

 

[Silky_Smooth]

I'm in a similar position to you and I'm dropping bio

 

[Flop21]

Well depends what you want to do.

Any engineering will need physics. So you'll have to do a bridging course if you drop that and want to go into that field (really good field).

Any science degree will need chemistry. So if you drop that, you'll need to do a bridging course (or a HSC type course in uni, sets you back a sem).

But no degree requires biology. Even though bio in the HSC has made my uni level bio/cell/babs course a breeze, it's not required and you can just study hard and do well in it. But the previous ones I mentioned - you'll need foundations.

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I loved bio so it's hard for me to say drop it.

But think about what degree you'll be doing (guessing you'll be doing a science degree at least, so keep chem), and then decide. Also if your marks are significantly different between the 3 let us know, or take that into consideration (i.e. drop the one you hate/are bad at the most).

 

[anomalousdecay]

If your maths is solid enough then you can get by in most fields of engineering (main exceptions are electrical, photovoltaic, nuclear where you can do some catching up in your own time but no major issues there).

You could wait and see it out if you really wanted to.

Otherwise, drop whatever you don't enjoy the most. Chances are you'll study more for the courses that you like and will neglect the ones that you don't like. Hence, make sure you are doing the subjects that you enjoy the most (advice to everyone in your situation).

 

[ScienceGuy99]

Well depends what you want to do.

Any engineering will need physics. So you'll have to do a bridging course if you drop that and want to go into that field (really good field).

Any science degree will need chemistry. So if you drop that, you'll need to do a bridging course (or a HSC type course in uni, sets you back a sem).

But no degree requires biology. Even though bio in the HSC has made my uni level bio/cell/babs course a breeze, it's not required and you can just study hard and do well in it. But the previous ones I mentioned - you'll need foundations.

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I loved bio so it's hard for me to say drop it.

But think about what degree you'll be doing (guessing you'll be doing a science degree at least, so keep chem), and then decide. Also if your marks are significantly different between the 3 let us know, or take that into consideration (i.e. drop the one you hate/are bad at the most).

I'm actually do the worst in chemistry at the moment haha But I realise j can't drop that because it's so integrated into all sciences. I'm doing the best in physics (1st in year) and 2nd in year for biology. Still top 5 for chemistry though I'm pretty sure.

I definitely want to do Anne sort of science degree, but don't want to stuff up my decision in year 11

 

[ScienceGuy99]

*Definitely want to do some sort of science degree

 

[Flop21]

I'm actually do the worst in chemistry at the moment haha But I realise j can't drop that because it's so integrated into all sciences. I'm doing the best in physics (1st in year) and 2nd in year for biology. Still top 5 for chemistry though I'm pretty sure.

I definitely want to do Anne sort of science degree, but don't want to stuff up my decision in year 11 ������

Yeah you definately cannot jump into uni chem (which you have to do 2 courses of in first year in science), without doing at least year 11 chem. You could, but you probably wouldn't do well at all (take it from me who hasn't done chem since year 9/10 and trying to do HSC chem in 13 weeks).

Take advantage of the fact you have around 2 years or less to do your chem studies. If you don't do it, you'll have either 4 weeks (bridging course) or 13 weeks (foundations uni course), and both of those periods are so short to be learning chem from near scratch.

But yeah still a tricky decision. Good luck with it.