Year 12 subjects.

[Kid Dynamite!]

For those of you doing year 12 next year or for those of you who feel like participating even though you've already completed it, what subjects are you planning to do or what subjects did you do?

I'll be doing three PES subjects in English Studies, Biology and Psychology (I was over the moon when they brought that in as a year 12 subject) and two PAS subjects in Studies of Society and Aboriginal Studies.

No maths!

Thankfully I managed to avoid the SAS subjects. For those of you who dont know, SAS subjects take 10 points off your TER which is a ridiculous concept if you ask me.

 

[BomberGal]

Ahh. I don't understand the way SACE operates at all!

I just finished VCE, and I did:

Maths Methods (1, 2, 3 & 4)
Chemistry (1, 2, 3 & 4)
Biology (3 & 4)
Psychology (1, 2, 3 & 4)
English (1, 2, 3 & 4)
History (1, 2, 3 & 4) (I did 20th Century in 1&2, and French and Russian Revolutions in 3&4. I did this as my Year 12 subject in Year 11.)

I also did Health & Human Development (1 & 2), but dropped it for Biology.

 

[Kid Dynamite!]

Originally posted by BomberGal
Ahh. I don't understand the way SACE operates at all!

Heh. From memory, PES subjects are Publicly Examined Subjects and PAS subjects are Privately Asessed Subjects, I could be wrong though. SAS subjects would be School Asessed I suppose, but dont quote me on that. I really should start getting clued up on these things

What do you want to do at Uni?

 

[BomberGal]

Planning to do Science, hopefully majoring in the Chemistry area. You?

So how do you get a TER (or whatever you have) in the SACE?

 

[Scotty's_Girl]

Originally posted by Kid Dynamite!
Heh. From memory, PES subjects are Publicly Examined Subjects and PAS subjects are Privately Asessed Subjects, I could be wrong though. SAS subjects would be School Asessed I suppose, but dont quote me on that.

Yeah, that's right. Although my younger brother tells me that they're not called that anymore. Now they are HESS general (PES, and PAS I think) and HESS restricted (SAS).

 

[Kid Dynamite!]

Originally posted by BomberGal
Planning to do Science, hopefully majoring in the Chemistry area. You?

So how do you get a TER (or whatever you have) in the SACE?

Sports Psychology. Dunno whether to do it in Melbourne or SA.

If you're doing SACE, your TER is your final score thats a combination of all your subject scores I think, but thats probably wrong so someone else might be able to explain it better and correct me.

 

[Kid Dynamite!]

Originally posted by Scotty's_Girl
Yeah, that's right. Although my younger brother tells me that they're not called that anymore. Now they are HESS general (PES, and PAS I think) and HESS restricted (SAS).

Thanks for that. I dont know what to make of all these changes, I might just stick to calling them PES and PAS so I dont get confused!

 

[Scotty's_Girl]

Originally posted by Kid Dynamite!
If you're doing SACE, your TER is your final score thats a combination of all your subject scores I think, but thats probably wrong so someone else might be able to explain it better and correct me.

I've got this booklet of my brother's in front of me and it says this about TER scores:

Rank is determined by calulating a single university aggregate from the five scalable SACE stage 2 subjects taken in a maximum of two attempts.

This single university aggregate will be calculated as follows:

• The scaled points for the best 4 scalable subjects are totalled - each is worth a maximum of 20 points.
• Half the scaled points of the 5th subject are added - this is worth a maximum of 10 points.
• Points are totalled, resulting in a maximum university aggregate of 90 points as follows: This maximum aggregate = (20 x 4) + (20 / 2) = 90.
• The university aggregate score will be reported to students on a score range of 0 - 90 with intervals of 0.25
• The aggregate score will be converted to a single TER reported on a percentile scale

Hope that makes some sense

 

[Nic]

Did Methods, Specialist, Biology, Legal Studies, English and Physics. Don't know why I bothered, what I'm doing now the only applicable subject is Biology and I got an ENTER 30 points higher than necessary. I should have slacked off considerably more than I did.

Um, I mean try your hardest and good luck!

 

[BomberGal]

Originally posted by Scotty's_Girl


This single university aggregate will be calculated as follows:

• The scaled points for the best 4 scalable subjects are totalled - each is worth a maximum of 20 points.
• Half the scaled points of the 5th subject are added - this is worth a maximum of 10 points.
• Points are totalled, resulting in a maximum university aggregate of 90 points as follows: This maximum aggregate = (20 x 4) + (20 / 2) = 90.
• The university aggregate score will be reported to students on a score range of 0 - 90 with intervals of 0.25
• The aggregate score will be converted to a single TER reported on a percentile scale

That's similar to how the VCE ENTER is calculated. The difference is that the best four subjects are taken (each can get a score out of 50, although 55 in the case of Spec Maths and LOTE), and they must include English, regardless of whether it's in the best or not. Then 10% of the remaining subjects are taken, these add up and you get a score which is then ranked from...well I'm not sure what the lowest is, 0 presumably, but you don't find out if it's less than 15. The highest is 99.95.

 

[RaDaR ReiLLy]

Originally posted by Kid Dynamite!
For those of you doing year 12 next year or for those of you who feel like participating even though you've already completed it, what subjects are you planning to do or what subjects did you do?

I'll be doing three PES subjects in English Studies, Biology and Psychology (I was over the moon when they brought that in as a year 12 subject) and two PAS subjects in Studies of Society and Aboriginal Studies.

No maths!

Thankfully I managed to avoid the SAS subjects. For those of you who dont know, SAS subjects take 10 points off your TER which is a ridiculous concept if you ask me.

Ok, some words of advice from someone who was there this year:

- Stay THE HELL AWAY from Studies of Societies. Not only is it BORING, the moderators mark hard, and you have to do this big investgative study at the end of the year. Its terrible. the worst subject i did.
- I heard biology isnt too bad. Couple of mates did it and found the exam easy
- Good to see your not doing Design SAS. i did that this year *shakes head*. It takes up a lot of your time and my class did an all nighter trying to finish for the SSABSA due date. it was horrible.....

Ok well other than that, i have nothing else to say really.

Good luck next year

 

[Richmondfan#1]

I'll be doing 5 subjects next year (dropped Computer, too lazy to pick up another!).

- Human Biology (TEE)
- Discreet Maths (TEE)
- English (TEE)
- History (TEE)
- Physical Education Studies (this subject is so easy to get an A in, just do the theory well [helps if you do human bio.] and if you're good at sport, you'll get an A!).

I'd love to do psychology but it isn't offered at my school.

 

[Kid Dynamite!]

Re: Re: Year 12 subjects.

Originally posted by RaDaR ReiLLy
- Stay THE HELL AWAY from Studies of Societies. Not only is it BORING, the moderators mark hard, and you have to do this big investgative study at the end of the year. Its terrible. the worst subject i did.

I like challenges, so I'll probably enjoy it more than you did and one of the main reasons I chose it was actually because of the Investigative Study, I'll be looking at something to do with football so where can I go wrong?

Thanks for the goodluck and if I start complaining about how boring it is, feel free to quote the crap out of me to rub it in!

 

[RaDaR ReiLLy]

Re: Re: Re: Year 12 subjects.

Originally posted by Kid Dynamite!
I like challenges, so I'll probably enjoy it more than you did and one of the main reasons I chose it was actually because of the Investigative Study, I'll be looking at something to do with football so where can I go wrong?

Thanks for the goodluck and if I start complaining about how boring it is, feel free to quote the crap out of me to rub it in!

Well i hope your teacher is nicer than mine... I wasnt allowed to do a football subject because it ' wasnt an apporiate social issue today' pfft!! It is to me!

So i had to resort to the boring 'breastfeeding in public' issue. I even used some printouts from these boards..and of course they werent relevant for what i was doing

 

[CharlieG]

I did Accounting 3/4 this year. Next year I'll be doing English, Economics, History (Rev), Maths Methods and university Accounting through Monash Uni.

I'm doing Economics through distance ed, meaning that I'll be enroled in three separate schools next year = potential paperwork nightmare!!!

Target is Arts/Commerce at Melbourne... need an ENTER of 96 or something around there. I may get that, but it's improbable. So I'm doing the Economics and uni Accounting to make myself as eligible for the middle-band as possible.

 

[Kid Dynamite!]

Re: Re: Re: Re: Year 12 subjects.

Originally posted by RaDaR ReiLLy
Well i hope your teacher is nicer than mine... I wasnt allowed to do a football subject because it ' wasnt an apporiate social issue today' pfft!! It is to me!

So i had to resort to the boring 'breastfeeding in public' issue. I even used some printouts from these boards..and of course they werent relevant for what i was doing

By the time it comes for us to do the investigative study, she'll know how much of an important issue it is, believe me! This can be a victory for both of us then, hehe.

 

[Damp Squarie]

I have just finished year 12, and i can say that Biology is, without a shadow of a doubt the easiest PES subject available.

 

[PowerGirl36]

My year 12 subjects for next year are:
Accounting
Legal Studies
English Studies
Tourism
Women's Studies

All PES/PAS or HESS General if you know that way. Gonna be hard I think!! For Adelaide the score is about 85 for Accounting/Commerce, but for Uni SA it's about 75 I think. So I guess I'll aim high but it doesn't matter so much if I only get into Uni SA.

And I have two 'transition days' at school tomorrow and Friday to get text books early etc. Annoying to have to go back but a good idea I reckon.

 

[GoalsFrom50Out]

English Studies
European History (straight As and 90+% in Year 10)
Tourism
Business Studies
I can't remember the 5th

 

[MightyFighting]

Here's a comment I'd like to make to several people who've posted on this thread:


Somewhere along the line you might consider throwing a real subject in there too.

 

[lozstar]

Originally posted by PowerGirl36
Women's Studies

I did that one last year.. Was hell as easy! My teacher just raaambled all lesson and we easily got A's and stuff.. It's a real interesting lesson though.

 

[David Votoupal]

Is it me, or do you guys have more choice in subjects than I did when I did my HSC in 1998?

 

[carlyp]

In my grade 12, I did
English C,
Twentieth Century History,
Sociology,
Informations Systems
Accounting.

It got me into arts/law at uni which I am currently in 2nd year with.

 

[Scotty's_Girl]

When I was in year 12, I did:
Multimedia
I.T
English Studies
Business Studies
History

 

[Kid Dynamite!]

Originally posted by David Votoupal
Is it me, or do you guys have more choice in subjects than I did when I did my HSC in 1998?

Probably more choices. Out of interest what did you do in Year 12, and can you remember anything else that was available to you? It'd be interesting to compare.