Subject Selection (1 Viewer)

[liha]

I'm in year 10. I want to do medicine at uni if not an allied health. I'm aiming to get an atar of 99+ the school I attend is ranked approximately in the 70s it fluctuated a lot in the last few years from 20s to 100s and now up to 70s due to many students leaving. I'm thinking about doing the following subjects for year 11;

― Biology
― Chemistry
― Economics
― English Advanced
― Mathematics 2U
― Physics

note: at my school we're offered to complete 2U maths and bio by year 11, so i'd complete 4 units/10 for HSC and only have like 3 subjects left.

My question is should I do more units of math possibly just Ext.1? Do you need 3U for uni? I'm not necessarily bad at maths I'm in the accelerated class for it. I actually liked maths before, it was my best subject still kinda is but it's the ranking that's really daunting and the competition. I end up making careless mistakes which I'm trying to improve, a few mistakes gets my rank down to like 5th out of the grade. For example; I got 96/100 I was ranked 10th out of the grade. The school's maths department is really good but at the same time I don't want to do anymore maths after year 11 once I complete 2U.

 

[pikachu975]

You listed general maths on your subject list, but I don't think schools allow moving from general maths to extension 1, not sure though... Why do general maths if it's your best subject?

 

[duck4]

My maths teacher is very supportive of the idea of doing maths for the skills you gain, not just the mark you'll get out of it. Because if you do a maths subject at uni, you can frequently get away with not having done extension 1, but it makes it a lot easier at uni if you have already learned the maths in high school, because then you are just cementing your knowledge instead of struggling to understand it.