Change of subject for year 12, help neede <3

**Gangey** · 29 Jan 2011, 5:57 AM

Basically i decided to do a year 11 VET course for year 12. The teacher said i could finish the course once i had completed year 12.

The problem is, i didn't go as well as i'd hoped with my year 12 subject (In year 11), So now I would like to change that VET course to a year 12 subject, just not sure which one.

LONG STORY SHORT: Which year 12 subjects are best to tackle, without doing the unit's 1+2 before it. Im not so much looking for an easy subject, just something i can catch onto easily.

P.s, Im already doing
English
Further Maths
Photography
Media

And in year 11 I did
PE (Year 12)
English Literature (Struggled all year)

**Jaundice** · 29 Jan 2011, 6:01 AM

Ancient history is pretty easy to study for and catch up with.

You could just read about your topic in the holidays and borrow someones book and you'd be pretty much set.

**ohexploitable** · 29 Jan 2011, 6:45 AM

IMO do a maths subject, they should be easiest to tackle and easiest to teach yourself. Go for "Specialist Maths", it's my understanding that it's kinda like a dumbed down version of NSW's 4U Maths.

**Gmac_0** · 29 Jan 2011, 1:39 PM

Hmm well I'm guessin the specialist maths comment is probably a joke since doing spec, or even methods 3/4 without the 1/2 would be a fair struggle for like 99% of people.

Some of the ones that really stand out as not requiring the 1/2 are:

Business Management
Psychology
Legal Studies

There are probably others also, but I know a lot of people who jumped straight into 3/4's of these subjects and were fine. Having done all 3, and doing the 1/2's as well, I'd say the one with the least resemblance between the 1+2 and the 3+4 is business management. There is literally none. Business Management is also the easiest of the subjects. Psychology also has very little overlap between year 11 and 12. With legal studies there is some overlap, not that much however, and it is also an easy subject. Pretty much any of these three would do, it just depends what you're interested in. Personally I did very well in bus man, quite well in legal studies, and pretty poorly in psych which was my worst subject, it really just related to the fact that I found psych rather uninteresting (too much tedious work about psychology ethics and covering experiments, as well as spending months just memorising bits of the eye & brain). Overall just depends on the individual, anyone with avg intelligence is capable of getting a high score in all three.

**slyhunter** · 29 Jan 2011, 1:46 PM

NSW 4U maths > all other states by a mile.

**Deathless** · 1 Feb 2011, 6:01 PM

How come?

**Jaundice** · 1 Feb 2011, 6:38 PM

oh i forgot maths. Yeah maths is good do maths.

**muzlak** · 2 Feb 2011, 12:34 PM

Specialist maths seems like a good subject to do. The unit 1/2 subject (often called general maths advanced) is almost completely unrelated to unit 3/4 specialist maths (it either covers entirely different topics or is much less in-depth than the year 12 subject), so you won't be missing out on much. As well as this, it scales a whole heap

However, only take it on if you're genuinely interested in maths.

**slyhunter** · 3 Feb 2011, 5:55 AM

Originally Posted by Deathless

How come?

Um, because if you've done NSW 4U maths, the difficulty of the supposedly "hardest" maths in Victoria is a joke.

**ohexploitable** · 3 Feb 2011, 7:41 AM

Originally Posted by Deathless

How come?

Check out VCE Specialist Maths papers, then just lol.

Also, they get to use graphing calculators and computer algebra systems.

**Gmac_0** · 3 Feb 2011, 8:06 AM

Originally Posted by slyhunter

Um, because if you've done NSW 4U maths, the difficulty of the supposedly "hardest" maths in Victoria is a joke.

Actually the hardest maths in Vic is technically not Specialist, but rather Uni maths, I never did it, but I'm guessing its a fair cut above Spec.

**slyhunter** · 3 Feb 2011, 8:10 AM

Oh yes, silly me, I forgot Victoria is the only state in Australia to offer Uni maths.

Lol smartass noob.

**Gmac_0** · 3 Feb 2011, 8:17 AM

I'm not saying it is, just pointing out that if you want a maths in HS with more difficulty - just do uni maths.

**slyhunter** · 3 Feb 2011, 8:22 AM

It's clear you haven't realised this thread is restricting difficulty to high school level.

Another win for failure.

**Gmac_0** · 3 Feb 2011, 8:46 AM

lol, if it can be done in hs then it can be hs level.

**Gangey** · 4 Feb 2011, 10:04 PM

Thanks heaps for the help everyone, Much MUCH appreciated!
Im going to talk to a careers teacher shortly to also get their opinion.
Again, thanks heaps!

P.s, feel free to close this thread, or allow more pointless arguing. idc <3