Should I drop English Extension 1? (1 Viewer)

[jeffstar18]

I'm in year 12 and currently sitting on 13 units. These include ext 2 maths, physics, chemistry, economics and ext 1 english. I don't know whether I should drop Extension 1 English.

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Pros of dropping Extension 1 English

I get a lot more free time and a lot more free periods. I can focus my time on English Advanced.
Smaller workload (Ext 1 English seemed to be a lot of work for 1 unit in year 11)

Cons of dropping Extension 1 English

My school does very poorly at English Advanced. In a cohort of roughly 170, we typically achieve 4 to 6 Band 6s. In English Extension 1, we achieve about double that - roughly 10 or 12. This means that there will be around 6 boys who get a Band 6 in English Extension 1 who don't get a Band 6 in English Advanced.

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The question is - which option provides better benefits? Should I choose to have extra time to improve my results in other subjects (provided I don't procrastinate in free periods) or should I choose to mitigate the damage that English Advanced will likely do to my ATAR by having 3 English Units rather than 2 (2 Units of English must count). Keeping in mind that I ranked around 12th in year 11, and most likely will not achieve a band six in English Advanced but most likely will achieve a band six in Extension 1 English.

Are there any pros or cons that I have overlooked?
Any advice would be much appreciated.

 

[shak99]

I'd say drop English Extension 1 IF you are ranked well in the rest of your subjects..

However, if your not doing well (outside of the top 15 students) in your other subjects, I'd say stick with Extension 1.

 

[SunnyScience]

If you're in the top 8, keep. If not - drop that sh!t. I hate Extn Eng. (but, then again - we do Romanticism). The workload is too much for the 1U imo, but it's personal preference. If I could turn back time, I'd drop it too, but too late now.

 

[jeffstar18]

My ranks for year 11 were 3rd in eco, 3rd in 2u math, 6th in chemistry, 6th in 3u math, 17th in english advanced, 11th in physics and 12th in english extension

 

[2xL]

drop it. boring and useless and probably wont even count to your atar.

 

[someth1ng]

If you don't like English Extension 1, it probably won't count UNLESS you're even worse at English (Advanced).

 

[LoveHateSchool]

I'd keep it given the info about your performance in both of them, but what can make a massive difference in EE1 is what topic you're gonna have to do a yea ron. See if it's one of the ones you'll actually like.

ATB nihilism kills you after the term though the COld War is interesting, would have loved Textual DYnamics or Language and Gender. ROmanticism we did too much in Yr 11 but if we hadn't, would have been ok for year 12 agin, but probably not for a year.

 

[Capt Rifle]

drop it. boring and useless and probably wont even count to your atar.

Precisely.

 

[LoveHateSchool]

Precisely.

But they seem to be doing quite well in it, it might and imho, EE1 is more of a true English than the Adv course everyone is forced to do and resents.

 

[such_such]

All the other subjects that you do are INTENSE. And soon, if not later, you'll start to feel the 'burn' and it's going to get too much. (Unless maybe you study 95% of the time or are naturally smart and can memorise everything)