Im going into yr 12 next term so i've completed all the prelim exams. To be honest, because i was a much bigger fan of eco than chem, i naturally just spent more time on the subject i liked best (economics).
Objectively though, i would say in terms of effort and workload, chem requires more...
I do both Chemistry and Economics, at the end of the day I prefer Economics over chemistry just because I personally find the content more interesting. I don't know how different the new syllabuses are from the one we're currently doing, but I heard that it's a lot more calculations/maths based...
I don't do legal so i wouldn't know how similar it is, I definitely noticed some parallels with English though. Since no one actually knows the marking criteria it's hard to know how they expect us to answer the questions.
That being said, the questions themselves weren't too hard (imo) though...
Yes i think i did subjectively okay though it depends on how they mark it... did anyone for the 'explain the effectiveness of a person's argument' section refer to stuff you write about in an english essay? I had no idea from what angle we were meant to analyse it... didnt know whether to...
Not if you come first by a long shot... the moderation process is very complicated. Eddie Woo (a former James Ruse maths teacher) explains it much better than I can :
Okay, so personally I had the exact same dilemma: choosing between modern and physics. In the end, I caved and chose physics- let's just say it's one of my biggest subject regrets. Of course, I chose it for all the wrong reasons, aka the supposedly very high scaling (though if you really analyse...