Subject Advice Year 11 -> Year 12 (1 Viewer)

[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.

If anyone who has particularly done the trio of Chemistry, Physics, and Economics, can comment about the workload in year 12, that would be very helpful.

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.

 

[Bendwhat?_over]

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

If you want to do engineering in the future, Engineering Studies is basically the first year of university done for you. I would recommend keeping it if that's the case.

But yes, the textbooks are god-awful. But you can teach yourself these things by looking at first-year university resources instead, not HSC resources.
If you have no issues with workload, I would say keep it as it is for now, wait until perhaps term 2 of year 12 to make a decision.

 

[bobjess]

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.

I hundred percent agree cause I did physics and chem last year for the hsc and tbvh mod 8 is very fairly new because you have to do atomic absorption spectrocopy, Infrared spectrums and stuff like that whcih does take a long long time to udnerstand and for physics mod 6 you have to revise continously to get the concepts stuck in your brain like eddy currents and mind you this is also the topic that gets the most twsited questions along with methods of calcualting the speed of light because romer's method for my hsc confused the absolute heck out of me. mod 8 is maily dependent on like writing so again memroising concepts but yeah

 

[ventventventent]

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

engineering studies is such a hard subject with bad scaling, it isnt worth anyones time imo. 100% isnt worth doing, talking from experience.

 

[Bryceyo]

If you want to do engineering in the future, Engineering Studies is basically the first year of university done for you. I would recommend keeping it if that's the case.

But yes, the textbooks are god-awful. But you can teach yourself these things by looking at first-year university resources instead, not HSC resources.
If you have no issues with workload, I would say keep it as it is for now, wait until perhaps term 2 of year 12 to make a decision.

Thanks for the reply, I'll see how things go until year 12 but right now I am not enjoying it because I picked it to be my 'fun' subject, but funnily enough it came out to be my hardest, maybe because of how the subject is structured in my class but not sure. I also hear from others (not sure if true) that the subject scales quite poorly considering its difficulty

 

[Bendwhat?_over]

Thanks for the reply, I'll see how things go until year 12 but right now I am not enjoying it because I picked it to be my 'fun' subject, but funnily enough it came out to be my hardest, maybe because of how the subject is structured in my class but not sure. I also hear from others (not sure if true) that the subject scales quite poorly considering its difficulty

Your school must be teaching it terribly - Most people I know who do both physics and engineering studies find engineering very easy! That's a shame then. I do not think enough people even take engineering studies for the scaling to be too much of an issue, but I do not know.

 

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