so i was speaking to my speech pathologist last week and she told me that you have to do six subjects in year 12 in order to be able to possibly achieve a 99.95 atar/aggregate of 210, unless you did an advanced placement in year 10/11. i’ve been told by my school pathways team multiple times that you do six subjects in year 11 and drop one in year 12. i’m not doing an advanced placement so i’m lost right now.
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
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?
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lowkey just slime me out
im y11 accelerating bio but i really dont enjoy it much and i was lowkey giving up but now i suddenly really wanna get a 40+ bc my last yr teacher said she hopes i can do it ☹️☹️☹️. i liked bio last year because it was a bit more challenging and interesting than my other boring y10 subjects but now that im doing other 1/2s i realise that i really dont like bio as much as i thought.
anyway.. my unit 3 wasnt bad im like probably around rank 4 out of like 70-80 students. BUT the thing is my school isn't that good at bio and we usually only get one 40+ bio each year ☹️☹️ so im feeling like at my current pace im not gonna get 40+
anyways i really need all the advice i can get for bio 3/4 i just wanna finish it well and make my teacher proud of me 🥲🥲🥲
so ik that the year has basically ended but like ive tried everything and my grades are going like a roller coaster (up and then downa nd then back up).
my sacs results:
U3 AOS 1(CRSPR)=80%
U3 AOS 2(PHOTOSYNTHESIS)=70%
U4 AOS 1 (IMMUNITY)= 73%
U4 AOS 2 (EVOLUTION)= havent done
U4 AOS 3(enzymes + key science skills)=90%
so my first sac this year was U4 AOS 3- and i studied for like 2 weeks and got that good score.
then we did U2 AOS 2 and i got a 70%, which is like a 20% and i didnt do what i did for the first sac bc im also doing methods 3/4 and had that sac (im in yr 11) . then for the crispr sac i studied rlly had- but they gave a dogshit article so thats why i lowkey did a bit bad, but i knew all the content.
for immunity i studied hard but i only rlly understood the content like 3 days before the sac and my errors was just relating it back to the article and to like read the fucking question.
so now for my last sac i wanna do well but idk how to study for it since its like massive and i cant memorise shit. sounds bad and is bad but like i can only understand content. i want a good way to not break my mind but also know everything.
pls give me a way to rember or to learn all the content without dying!
p.s. when i study i spen like 3 hours doing it and im like not production- like other than being distracted, im genually slow asf when studying. how can i be productive when studying large content and not dying!!
Yo guys can anyone give a suggestion to see if I should do Kwong Lee Dow.
I’m year 10, I believe I should be around top 5% of my cohort.
My extracurriculars are:
- Year 9 SRC
- 2 Bake Sales
- Completing community project
- State level guitar competition (10-11 years of guitar)
- Black belt club mixed martial arts
- Regional badminton
- Regional Debating DAV
- 2 Distinctions in AMC and CAT
Thanks guys.
Does anyone have methods resources like a bound reference and notes please!
My english teacher is amazing, genuinely. She's passionate about the subject and cares for her students. But there's one piece of advice she gives that I want to double check.
In both of the analytical topics we've done so far in 3/4, argument analysis and analysing a text, my teacher has advised us to basically always avoid using pronouns. When analysing 'We Have Always Lived in the Castle', we should mention a character basically just once per paragraph, maybe twice if it's long, and every time we refer to them from that point on, we shouldn't say "she" "he" "they", we should say "the macabre protagonist", "the aggressive, imposing presence", etc., and the same goes for argument analysis. "The passionate speaker", "the determined member of parliament", etc.
Is this accurate? It feels like it's just a waste of time to do that, unless it's not clear who's being referred to (such as if I was to talk about Merricat and Constance, saying "she" would be a bit unclear about which sister I mean, so I would clarify in some way who I meant). In an exam, I don't want to think of another way to describe who I'm talking about, when I could just use a pronoun.
I want to prioritize my top 4 subjects and idk which ones should be in my top 4…out of these 3 I have to pick 2. Personally I find economics straightforward but content heavy and boring, also I heard it’s quite competitive. Whereas politics is kinda hard but quite interesting, and there’s not that much people who do it. Methods is super time consuming but it’s okay as a subject, but it’s also my worse one and the most competitive. Also ik at the end of the day it’s really dependent on which subject im best at and which one I like the most but lowk idk myself so im hoping for some general advice.
I genuinely don’t know what to do for psych, i did so bad on u3 got 52% and 48% both lower than class average.. i initially wanted to at least get a 32-37 range ss but now im so scared i’ll only receive a 25 or something.. If I genuinely try and study incredibly well for u4 and for the exam is it still possible to get at least a minimum in 30s??
Btw in yr11 and also worried it will damage my atar next year when i want to try and get into the 90s.. seriously worried for both my ss and atar, i don’t know what to do and the stress eats me alive everytime i think about it
Hi, does anyone have a 20/20 English Oral Presentation speech that they haven’t shared yet that they presented in 2025?
I’m happy to pay for it.
erm so im doing fast track psych this year and I just finished unit 3 with a shitty average of 72 which im really upset about because I genuinley was doing well in it last year (like low 80s). and after that I keep getting so stressed about it, im in holidays but all I can think about is psych and the result of the latest research SAC we did, each time I think about it i genuinely feel like throwing up and I just feel so stressed all the time to the point which I low-key got a nightmare about failing the latest sac 💀.
hiii im a year 10 and idk what to do for my subjects these r my results can someone help me out
yr 11 legal -77%
english-90%
history-89%
maths 74%
chem 73%
french 77%
latin 72%
Hi I’m a yr10 and I’m having trouble picking my VCE subjects for next year. I don’t really have a career pathway in mind, so if you have any suggestions (vce/careers) that would be helpful. Thank you!
I am planning on choosing 6 subjects and the ones I’ve decided on are: Chinese, Philosophy, methods and psychology. I’m unsure on:
Which
English to choose. Either Language or literature.
For my last, sixth subject, whether to do:
- Mainstream English (so two Englishes, lang/lit + mainstream)
- Maths s
pesh
(so two maths, spesh + methods)
I’m not bad at English and the yr10 English course I’m doing at school right now is like a miniature/pre-VCE literature class. I’ve had three assessments this year and gotten two “excellent”s and one “very good” (excellent is the highest rank apart from outstanding, which is extremely rare; very good is second highest). I asked my English teacher and she said I would “make a great lit student”. The problem is even though I enjoy reading and writing, I’m worried if I’m not interested in the texts we study in lit, I’ll get burnt out fast. I’m also aware of how heavy lit is as a subject with lots of contextual information I have to understand while analysing the text. I don’t read classics much, nor am I very interested in the idea of doing so. I’ve found English this year to be considerably stressful and overwhelming but I’m an over-thinker and my school’s curriculum is rigorous.
As for English language, I am interested in linguistics and how language is used differently depending on context, how language shapes meaning and how meaning/time shapes language. Such knowledge would also be useful in the future. However, I’m unsure about it because it sounds very rigid, with a lot of persuasives/expository pieces? Also, And lots of non-fiction texts to read, which I’m unfamiliar with. Basically, I’m scared it’ll be boring. But I’m also intrigued so…
The overarching problem for my English selection is that I feel equally-ish towards lang and lit and I don’t feel like one will be significantly easier for me than the other. I do love English, just not when my grades are at stake, and I’m passionate about reading, writing and the language in general. I would like to pursue a career related to English in some way but it sounds so unrealistic in this era, with AI becoming more and more prominent in our lives.
My maths grades are also decent. I spent my previous teenage years studying in China, doing the Chinese maths curriculum. My school sent us vce maths subject selection advice and mine said I can definitely do methods and I’m “encouraged” to do specialist. I am currently being tutored outside of school and pre-learning the methods content, which I’ve found alright so far. My tutor advises me to do spesh. I would like to do spesh but I’m also a bit scared. I like maths enough (on a scale from 1-10 I’d give maths a 7) to willingly do the work and be interested sometimes. However, I don’t see myself in a field in the future where all that spesh knowledge would be used.
I’m currently leaning more towards doing spesh and lang (so two maths, one English) because two englishes sounds like a really heavy workload to me. But all recommendations are welcome.
Sidenote: this year is my first year at an Australian high school, so everything for me has been quite rushed. Before I was in China for a few years but English is my first language. Do not think just because I spent my previous high school years in China my English isn’t good enough to do English language/lit. And no I don’t want to do English second language.
hey guys...... so i'm kinda struggling in some of my classes and I was wondering if anybody who got 40+ (or around there) in revs (french/russian), media, or sociology had any free resources they would dm me hahahah.....
normally I wouldn't ask but all the subjects I mentioned don't have a lot of resources online :-(
thank u so much and i'm so sorry for clogging the feed with just another useless request! happy studying! :-)
In the Russian Revolution textbook, there are 2 different types of dates (eg. '16 July' vs '30July NS'). Which should I use in SACs & exams?
hi guys,
send through any pics of flowcharts u used for memorising organic chem reaction pathways!
lets see how creative we can get