Engineering Studies or Software Design and Develelopment (1 Viewer)

[atar90plus]

I want to ask you guys a couple of questions about these subjects. Firstly, which one is easier? Are the exams and assignment easy to achieve above 90% and what about the scaling?

 

[Gigacube]

Exams & assignment difficulty can vary from school to school. Most schools chose to sit the Independent or CSSA exams for the yearlys or trials. Are you in year 10 or year 11 this year?

 

[SpiralFlex]

I did Engineering in Year 11. I did not enjoy it much. I thought it would be more logical and mathematical, turns out I was wrong.

The main focuses of Preliminary Engineering at my school were:

- Material science

- Technical drawing

I didn't really enjoy the content.


On the other hand, I began liking SDD. This was because I enjoyed the logical side of programming. Different schools learn different programming languages but the exam requires responses written in pseudocode (informal description of a computing principle). I will admit the theory part of it scares most computing geeks, but still enjoyable.

In terms of scaling, both subjects don't scale that great. But if you enjoy it why not pick it? If not, you are best doing something else you have an interest in. Because I can tell you that you will be doing a fair bit of coding.

Our school uses Pascal by the way.

 

[cheepy5]

Engineering scales better than SDD and about the same as chemistry ....... if you get about 85+
Engineering is harder especially because there's not many resources out there to help you because only about 2000 kids do the subject and the syllabus is not really specific at all. The assignments at my school were difficult. doing Physics is very useful for engineering studies.

Whereas software if your working with a particular code or program ( HTML, Qbasic ect) theres generally a lot of help on the internet.

And wat SprialFlex said is true

But really its up to you what you think you will prefer more (and dont worry about scaling too much)

EDIT: Sorry might be wrong about the scaling but based on the 2010 UAC A3 table the scaling wasn't to different between Chem and Engineering studies

 

[aaron_syd]

Engineering is boring at times, but if you are interested in technical drawings (orthogonal/isometric drawings, intro to CAD), basic physics (vector diagrams, problem solving graphically), history of modern appliances/bridges etc. then you'll have a great time. It's not really hard, but make sure you're doing physics and at least 2u maths, with knowledge of basic trig functions, and usually i just sleep during the lessons we learn about materials, but chem might help to some minimal extent.

 

[MrBrightside]

SDD is easy if you like computers and logic.