#macrobsubjects

Hey,

To get straight to the point, you absolutely can jump straight into Bio ¾ in Year 11 despite not doing a science elective in Year 10. It would of course be helpful to do a semester of science, whatever science that might be, but seeing as the school doesn’t provide mandatory classes in science for Year 10s, everything that you need for science subjects at VCE level will be provided to you. If you would really prefer to study Bio Unit 1 over one of your other electives, definitely try and get in contact with your YLCs to just see whether or not there is an opportunity for you to switch into it.

Hey there,

This sounds super tough and we wish you all the best in whatever you choose in the end. Remember that ultimately it is your education and it is your choice.

If you enjoy the subject, chances are you’re going to be more motivated and work harder regardless of how tough it is and if you need an extra hand with tutoring then so be it. However, if the difficulty of the subject is taking over the enjoyment of it and the cons are overruling the pros, perhaps it’d be worth considering other subjects in its place that you might enjoy more.

Some subjects that don’t require ½ include: Accounting, History: Revolutions, Economics, Health and Human Development, Geography, Psychology, Biology

Hi there,

Since you don’t know that much about uni extension, it might be helpful to go to this information session if you can because it will go over all the information, specifically to Monash, which I am not familiar with. Here is the link: https://www.monash.edu/extension-information-evening’

Update: This event has already past, but we will leave this up as a reminder for people to go them next year if interested.

Here is the powerpoint that was used at Melbourne Uni’s one (it should be very similar, though we can’t guarantee it will be exactly the same):

https://study.unimelb.edu.au/__data/assets/pdf_file/0020/54650/UMEP-Presentation-2019.pdf

This page, along with the links I’ve attached below explain how uni extension can contribute to your atar: https://www.monash.edu/study/why-choose-monash/information-for-high-achieving-students/monash-extension/benefits-of-monash-extension

This page shows you what subjects you’ll be studying in uni extension accounting at Monash: https://www.monash.edu/study/why-choose-monash/information-for-high-achieving-students/monash-extension/study-options/accounting

From this page you can click through to the handbook pages of the subjects you will studying (I can’t attach the specific ones because I don’t know if you are studying at Caulfield or Clayton, but it’s clearly identified on the page.) These handbook pages will give you an overview of what you will study in each subject and how it will be assessed.

Like all uni extension subjects, you will study 2 subjects in a year (one per semester), which is the quarter of the normal load of a full-time uni student.

Here are some posts that we have already answered about general uni extension information and experiences:

http://friendsatmacrob.tumblr.com/post/176224545567/hi-fam-are-any-of-you-doing-university-extension

http://friendsatmacrob.tumblr.com/post/90548395297/umep-accounting-university-of-melbourne-extension

http://friendsatmacrob.tumblr.com/post/96345373842/is-5-vce-subjects-a-uni-enchanment-program

http://friendsatmacrob.tumblr.com/post/149814237622/hey-fam-im-not-sure-if-anyones-asked-but-do

http://friendsatmacrob.tumblr.com/post/162978591447/uni-extension-how-many-hours-is-it-per-week

http://friendsatmacrob.tumblr.com/post/163008681472/this-is-kinda-weird-but-after-reading-all-these

http://friendsatmacrob.tumblr.com/post/177478849032/hi-fam-so-im-in-year-11-and-i-was-wondering

http://friendsatmacrob.tumblr.com/post/177547484372/hey-im-in-year-11-and-im-thinking-of

http://friendsatmacrob.tumblr.com/post/177547501092/hey-i-wanna-do-uni-extension-and-im-just

Hope this helps!

Hey there,

I recommend going to VCE DIscussion Space on Facebook or to Atarnotes Forums for these kinds of questions as many people don’t feel comfortable sharing study scores. If you’re interested you might be able to find out in the reports published by The Age and it might interest you to check out the mark distributions for HHD.

It also might be worthwhile to ask Ms Tinney, who teaches HHD, her perspective and the grades of her students without disclosing any names.

Hey there!

FAM Member 1: I’m doing Japanese ¾ and we’ve practiced a lot with our language assistant. During the holidays I personally didn’t do much. But still practiced a whole run-through with my other Japanese class friends. I’d suggest that make sure you practice a lot with others, because they’d be able to ask you ‘Plan B’ questions. We think of our script as Plan A and Plan B as the questions assessors would ask. During our classes, we have been taught to do the oral exam as a form of conversation rather than an argument, which means you have to ‘drive and steer the car according to both your and the assessor’s way’ if the assessor asks you to make a turn, you should do it (ie answer and go along with their question) and then gently turn it back towards your way. Perhaps come up with a range of possible questions relating to your script and write answers to them. Doing it with class friends helps a lot because they’ll be able to ask you questions that relate to the same topic as they’re doing, so you can get a whole range of topics in, as assessors may ask some of those too depending on who’s before and after you.

Hope this helps you and good luck with your oral exam/prep!

Hey there,

FAM Member 1: I’m currently taking accounting at macrob and in my experience, our accounting teacher is the only teacher you need. Not just because you can ask him any kind of question at anytime (in class, people shout out questions about what he’s teaching all the time), or that he has a large amount of resources that for most people, is more than enough to study well, but also because his classes are amazingly engaging. I’m not much of a auditory learner since I tend to blank out after listening to lectures for a few minutes but Mr. Page includes relevant anecdotes, cuts out the unimportant stuff and structures his classes well (after years of teaching of course) so I tend to not have to revise so much for this class after learning it just once!

Besides our classes, the subject itself doesn’t really require an additional tutor to help since most of the difficult stuff is bookkeeping (the number stuff) which just requires a lot of personal study and practise. Theory is difficult to grasp - most of it is memorization, and some requires, again, practise to apply to the bookkeeping stuff. If you really need help on any of these things, Mr. Page is always in his office (or walking around the school talking to students). He’s really approachable and explains concepts very thoroughly.

Every student is different however, so I recommend you take a few accounting classes before asking yourself again if you need an accounting tutor. Maybe you want extra resources (more than what Mr. Page already gives??? - he has individual exercise worksheets, booklets for every topic, practise exams, topic quizzes, practise sacs, podcasts, videos on nearly every topic, and I’m probably missing some..), or you feel more comfortable learning in a one-on-one class structure.

Hey there,

From what I can remember, it should have been before you choose your subjects for next year. You should be told during course counselling. You should discuss this with the senior school coordinators if your subjects have yet to be confirmed.

Hey,

We’re inclined to say that failing ½ exams won’t affect your future studies of that subject too greatly and if there are any perceived problems with your progress this year, your teacher will contact you about them. However, we’re not actually too sure what the rules are so it might be best to talk to your year level coordinators about it if you don’t feel comfortable asking your teacher. In addition, though a teacher can recommend whether you take a certain subject or not (like they do at the end of year 10 maths), they cannot actually stop you from taking a subject.