Subject Advice Year 11 -> Year 12 (2 Viewers)

[Bryceyo]

I was just looking for some advice regarding my subjects going into year 12. Currently, I do Eng Adv, Math Ext 1, Physics, Chemistry, Economics, and Engineering Studies. After a term and a bit of these subjects, I am liking all of them except Engineering, mainly due to the way the course is structured. It feels difficult to self-teach, and the textbook questions feel centuries old (and difficult). Anyway, if I were to drop engineering, it would leave me with Physics, Chemistry, and Economics, and right now they seem fine and the workload is no problem however does it get much harder? I am worried now that maybe that trio would be very demanding, and I would like to still have a life outside of school. I am looking for an ATAR >90, not bothered about anything higher than that.

I also may drop Ext1 Math to ease the workload.

Thank you for responses

 

[Study to success]

I was just looking for some advice regarding my subjects going into year 12. Currently, I do Eng Adv, Math Ext 1, Physics, Chemistry, Economics, and Engineering Studies. After a term and a bit of these subjects, I am liking all of them except Engineering, mainly due to the way the course is structured. It feels difficult to self-teach, and the textbook questions feel centuries old (and difficult). Anyway, if I were to drop engineering, it would leave me with Physics, Chemistry, and Economics, and right now they seem fine and the workload is no problem however does it get much harder? I am worried now that maybe that trio would be very demanding, and I would like to still have a life outside of school. I am looking for an ATAR >90, not bothered about anything higher than that.

I also may drop Ext1 Math to ease the workload.

Thank you for responses

Ik people who do engineering and if u have a bad teacher/ class structure you’ll probably hate it so if ur not liking it now then I don’t think you’ll like it in year 12

 

[Geniusly]

I was just looking for some advice regarding my subjects going into year 12. Currently, I do Eng Adv, Math Ext 1, Physics, Chemistry, Economics, and Engineering Studies. After a term and a bit of these subjects, I am liking all of them except Engineering, mainly due to the way the course is structured. It feels difficult to self-teach, and the textbook questions feel centuries old (and difficult). Anyway, if I were to drop engineering, it would leave me with Physics, Chemistry, and Economics, and right now they seem fine and the workload is no problem however does it get much harder? I am worried now that maybe that trio would be very demanding, and I would like to still have a life outside of school. I am looking for an ATAR >90, not bothered about anything higher than that.

I also may drop Ext1 Math to ease the workload.

Thank you for responses

Chem doesn't really get that much harder from yr 11 to yr 12 imo. It more just builds upon the foundational knowledge in year 11. If you found year 11 chem pretty chill and understand the concepts, then Year 12 chem is just an extension on top of it. Mod 8 is kinda the only topic which will be completely new, but it's not that hard.

Phys does get a bit harder. Mod 5 is pretty chill if you are good at maths. Mod 6 I'd say is arguably the hardest module. Understanding electromagnetism intuitively is almost impossible since most professors wouldn't even. You almost just have to accept some things, which is annoying but there's no way around it. Mod 7 and 8 aren't that bad, they are mainly just memorising different scientific experiments and how that changed the model of light and the atom across time. The only conceptually challenging part is the Standard Model at the end of Mod 8, but again, they can't ask too many questions on that becaue it isn't even complete.