u/average-anime-fan

I’m in year 10 with subject selections coming up around August-September, and have been contemplating about this question for a while now.

My other planned subjects for vce are

1. English/Literature (haven’t decided yet)
2. Revolutions (my accelerated subject
3. Legal studies
4. Maths methods
5. Undecided, but most likely economics
6. The spec maths or physics slot

I found physics this year to be decent, while I didn’t do that well I thought motion was interesting but struggled a bit on light and waves, partially due to my class starting with that topic which is a bit imo as I thought motion was easier to understand.

My school does also offer a year 10 specialist elective, which covers circle theorems, logic and proofs, and combinatorics as the main areas. While I didn’t do the course, I did have a look over the material and it seemed conceptually interesting. However my main concern with spec would be the workload. I’m by no means a maths genius, and am concerned that I might not be able to keep up in year 12 with how fast the subject is known to move.
Another concern I have is that if I were to choose specialist for unit 1, but end up dropping it and pick up physics for unit 2, would I be at a big disadvantage with having not done unit 1 physics?

For past or current methods or specialist students, did you find that the type of cas you had actually made a difference? For some context, I’m in year 10 right now and have been using the white classpad cas since the start of this year, and although I haven’t run into any problems during tests or the exam, it does feel very awkward to use especially when I’m trying to go a bit faster. My school does teach using the white classpad, but they’re also not against using the ti. I have also heard some people say that the ti is much better and faster, especially for spesh, but the consensus I see is still pretty split.

Also just to clarify, I’m not accelerating in any math subjects so I’ll be the 1/2s next year.

After seeing so many posts here I’m starting to wonder, is it possible to get a mid to high (36+) study score in any low-medium scaling subject (legal, revs, econ, general, methods etc.) without having straight a’s for the whole year? I get that ranking and exams matter the most compared to sac scores but for example if I were to be in a very strong methods cohort (100+ students with the top 25% all averaging high 90s) but I end up being ~rank 40 but with high 80s-low 90s with a decent exam score, would a raw high 30s or low 40s study score still be possible?