Anyone planning to do Psychology?

[Ball_man]

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Just wondering if anyone doing psychology next year?...heard its god dam hard

[maplestory]

Originally Posted by Ball_man

Just wondering if anyone doing psychology next year?...heard its god dam hard

Actually, i wanna do psychology in uni
but it's way too much for me

still thinking...

[spence]

I'm doing first year psych at the moment. I love it, and am planning on majoring in it. And keep in mind you doin't need to do BPsych to major in it and do honours, so you don't necessarily need to get a really high UAI/ATAR

[clo-ree]

I want to do it next year at uow.

[Ball_man]

Originally Posted by spence

I'm doing first year psych at the moment. I love it, and am planning on majoring in it. And keep in mind you doin't need to do BPsych to major in it and do honours, so you don't necessarily need to get a really high UAI/ATAR

I heard you have to do Maths...is it the same as the maths we learn in 2 unit? It's not hard is it?

[spence]

Originally Posted by Ball_man

I heard you have to do Maths...is it the same as the maths we learn in 2 unit? It's not hard is it?

The maths in Psych is just stats, and the stats you do in first year is nothing, although i'm sure it picks up in later years. But if you do BPsych or BScience, you have to do maths units as well. I'm doing arts so I don't have to do these though

[mrs destiny]

my sister's doing first year psych atm and she LOVES it. always coming home and telling me about the somewhat crazed lecturers she has lol (she's first year at usyd atm)

i'm interested in science and might try some psych units, but i dont necessarily want to follow her and major in it. i like biology more

[Ball_man]

Originally Posted by spence

The maths in Psych is just stats, and the stats you do in first year is nothing, although i'm sure it picks up in later years. But if you do BPsych or BScience, you have to do maths units as well. I'm doing arts so I don't have to do these though

Dont you have to have 2 majors though if your in BArts?...also what your saying does that mean that the BArts is another alternative route to becomming a Pyschologist?

[Ball_man]

I'm guessing your doing Psychology at the moment?

[Ball_man]

Can i have your email?...thinking of doing it next year after HSC is all over!

It would be great to have someone to help

[spence]

Originally Posted by Ball_man

Dont you have to have 2 majors though if your in BArts?...also what your saying does that mean that the BArts is another alternative route to becomming a Pyschologist?

Yeah you do need to do a major from arts as well. You can become a psychologist through any degree that you can major in psych in. The important thing is that you make it into honours, and then into postgrad

[McMizza]

It's not so much hard to understand, you can get your head around the content if you put in the effort - go to lectures, tutorials and do the readings. There's just A LOT to learn, which can make understanding difficult.

[imsopostmodern]

Originally Posted by Ball_man

I heard you have to do Maths...is it the same as the maths we learn in 2 unit? It's not hard is it?

you can do the easiest level of maths, call maths for life sciences, and it only requires 2unit (advanced) assumed knowledge. but it is a little bit harder than hsc maths. many of the concepts you learn are 3unit and 4unit ideas, and they go through the work faster than at school.


if you have any specific questions, feel free to pm me

[daniieee]

Originally Posted by spence

I'm doing first year psych at the moment. I love it, and am planning on majoring in it. And keep in mind you doin't need to do BPsych to major in it and do honours, so you don't necessarily need to get a really high UAI/ATAR

I'm seriously considering doing psych at USyd next year but you're saying if I don't get the ATAR (sounds retarded, I'd much rather the UAI but whatever), I can still do it through..?

Originally Posted by spence

The maths in Psych is just stats, and the stats you do in first year is nothing, although i'm sure it picks up in later years. But if you do BPsych or BScience, you have to do maths units as well. I'm doing arts so I don't have to do these though

I figured there'd be maths in it somewhere, because psychology is essentially a science. So you're doing psychology through your B Arts, and that means no maths? =]] Appealinggggg! Not that I hate maths, but I'd rather not touch it after high school.

[imsopostmodern]

Originally Posted by daniieee

I'm seriously considering doing psych at USyd next year but you're saying if I don't get the ATAR (sounds retarded, I'd much rather the UAI but whatever), I can still do it through..?


I figured there'd be maths in it somewhere, because psychology is essentially a science. So you're doing psychology through your B Arts, and that means no maths? =]] Appealinggggg! Not that I hate maths, but I'd rather not touch it after high school.

if you dont get an ATAR high enough for B Psych, you can either do B Science or B Arts with a major in psych, which will allow you to do honours if you achieve sufficient marks.

even if you do psych through an arts degree, you don't do 'maths' as such, but you have to do statistics as a topic within psych. it's not particularly hard calculations or anything though. and you'll only use it once or twice.