1. Psych 1&2 - I can still remember most things from this subject, and only this subject. I liked how we learnt about visual and taste perception, the lobes of the brain and also some social psych in there. It was a good variety.
  2. Psych 3&4
  3. Health 1&2 - inspired me to study developmental biology and my love for health
  4. Health 3&4 - loved the global health part
  5. Bio 3&4 - immune system content <3
  6. EngLang 1&2 - my teacher was an absolute legend. Best teacher ever. You could tell he really cared about getting everyone up to speed. I enjoyed coming to class, even during remote learning, because he made sure WE WERE ACTIVELY LEARNING, something staff teaching some of my uni subjects should really learn how to do. If I become a teacher, I wanna be like this dude.
  7. Further 3&4 - I literally still use this stuff in my degree and also job today, basic stats. Should probably rank it higher for that reason. Also liked the financial stuff.
  8. Bio 1&2 - I hardly remember this subject but my teacher always used to apply the content to her family. By the time I left that class, I knew more about her family than the content itself (kidding, but she did talk a lot about her family)

big gap

  1. EngLang 3&4 - didn't love it, was a bit dry (sorry linguistics fans, I like it a little but not a lot, whoops). Teacher played awesome indie tunes though, helped expand my music taste (these comments have nothing to do with the subject content itself, it's just the "vibes" I got going to each class).
  2. Chem 3&4 - found most of it super tricky but the content was interesting for the most part, especially food chem.
  3. Chem 1&2 - had my best friend in my class and it was fun doing titrations. I'm sad there were no explosions though, didn't live up to my expectations.
  4. Methods 1&2 - as soon as I fell behind and couldn't catch up, I gave up, which is probably one of my biggest high school regrets.
9 days later

This is for VCE ( currently in year 12, so I may change my opinions after the exams haha)

  1. Biology (completed in grade 11, I enjoyed the content so much)

  2. Chemistry ( struggled in grade 11, but happily going well in year 12 so I'm very glad I didn't drop it)

  3. Physics ( I kinda ended up in this class by chance, but I have no regrets, a very interesting subject)

  4. English ( almost did literature instead, I am so glad I choose english for year 12, I did literature in grade 11 and it was no fun at all, the teacher literally told me "you write like an english student" , well that is where I ended up and I couldn't be happier honestly)

  5. Mathematical Methods ( Probably the hardest subject for me, but not too bad, I'm more a science person than a maths person)

  6. Food Studies ( compared to my other subjects this is so easy, and quite boring honestly, thats why I hate it, also the new study design in 2023 sucks)

I'm in year 11 and these are my preferences so far

Physics 1&2: literally my favourite subject, I didn't pick it initially because I thought it would be too hard to have 3 sciences, but I swapped it from health and development and it was the best decision ever. I'm topping the class and I genuinely enjoy the content a lot. I had a previous interest in physics, so learning more physics was nothing but enjoyable for me. The circuits stuff and nuclear stuff was really interesting. Sometimes it is a little tricky though

Chemistry 1&2: My teacher is great, my class is eager to learn and the content is very enjoyable. Although the content is getting more and more difficult, its still really cool.

Methods 1&2: I either get really confused or it just clicks in class. Either way, I eventually click and it's so satisfying. I like making connections with physics as well. If I wasn't under timed pressure I would enjoy it more though.

General Maths 3&4: it's quite easy, so either it gets boring, or frustrating when I make a silly mistake. Sometimes its a nice "break" subject from like chemistry or methods.

Biology 1&2: just boring, class was kinda fun

Biology 3&4: I hate this. It's so frustrating trying to figure out what VCAA wants you to regurgitate. Also I don't really benefit much from my teacher and class is really boring. DNA manipulation and immunity was really interesting though

English 1&2: If it weren't for my great English teacher, I would've never done anything in this class. I'm just not an English person. I am honestly so surprised at how much hope my teacher has in me. Hopefully I'll get to do EAL next year

a month later

Anybody from the Class of 2023 (or others) have thoughts? 👀

  1. Japanese (for me personally)
  2. Visual Communication & Design
  3. Biology
    4.Psychology
    5.English

Very very last. Methods (I despise that subject so much I regret choosing this subject in any way possible)

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HSC student here these were my year 11 subjects-

  1. Legal studies ( my love💕)
  2. Maths standard
  3. business studies
  4. SOR 1 (purely because I do decent in it, other wise it sucks)
  5. Biology
  6. English Advanced
  7. Modern history (I have dropped this for year 12)

    year 11 student

    1. psych 3&4, so interesting and also pretty easy, just an enjoyable chill rote learning subject
    2. legal studies - super interesting and our teacher is awesome
    3. gen maths (fun and don't need to study for it at all)
    4. chem - not doing many subjects so this ended up near the bottom but kinda hard and i hate how i can put in hours of work to get in the high 70s, be happy, and then my mates will study 5mins before and outscore me :/
    5. english - idk why, i used to love english, but this year its just been ew. i'm happy to pass i wish it wasn't mandated tbh

    year 11 student here

    1. Geo - like the chill aspect of it, case studies and all, pretty much the whole of sem 1 was me and my mates playing geo guesser
    2. Viet 3/4 - overall enjoyable class, except the essay each week which was not compulsory (exam was cooked)
    3. Gen maths - easy asf class, so free walk into tests without studying with summary book in hand and walk out with a 100%
    4. Eng - chill class, somewhat enjoyable when focused
    5. Chem- just chem, gonna drop content is interesting but there is so much to remember
    6. Psych - free class, content is aight
    7. Methods - failing
    8. RNS 3/4 - detest this subject with a burning passion, going to burn my books alongside the 60 + practice 10 markers i've done in this past year

    Another year 11 student
    1 - VET hospitality (just a fun chill subject)
    2 - Psychology (love most the content)
    3 - Food studies 3/4 (may have loved it still but was more content heavy than last year and unfortunately got behind because of some missed classes)
    4 - English (contents alright decent class)
    5 - Business management (really chill, easy content)
    6 - Media (easy loser because of noisy class and I prefer theory to practical content which media doesn't provide much of at all)

    Overall though I've really enjoyed all my subjects (except media sometimes), especially because I lucked out with really good teachers for all of them

    Recent VCE 2023 Year 12 Graduate here

    1. Units 3/4 Legal Studies
    2. Units 3/4 History: Revolutions
    3. Units 3/4 Further Mathematics
    4. Units 1/2 Legal Studies
    5. Units 1/2 History: Revolutions
      ............................slight gap...................
    6. Units 3/4 English
    7. Units 2 Further Mathematics
    8. Units 1/2 Chemistry
    9. sizeable gap -
    10. Units 3/4 Food Studies
    11. Units 1/2 Food Studies
    12. Units 3/4 Chemistry
      ................unbelievably large gap.......................
    13. Units 1/2 English
    14. Units 1 Maths Methods (I only did unit 1 and switched to further for units 2 onwards)
    10 days later

    yr 11 qce student.

    1. Drama - easy subject, mostly fun. class can be a bit ehhh but thats ok. got full marks for my FAs, although we didnt do an exam
    2. Art - generally chill class and subject, fun to make art. not as fun to write about it but did pretty well overall.
    3. Film and TV - pretty fun! Good teacher and enjoyable to create films and write scripts. Not great with the analysing part but i think i did alright in the exam (i didnt get my exact mark back tho so i wouldnt know lol)
    4. Literature - generally okay. Narrative is the best assessment. Creative multimodal was ok. More fun in the yr 11 version than year 12 one bc i had more time and actually got fb on it.
    5. Methods - this class is okay. Sometimes i don't understand the stuff that were learning and sometimes i do. Derivatives were my favourite topic this year, i enjoyed it and did rlly well on the exam
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      ..
      ...
    6. Digital solutions - im probably going to fail because i submitted late thats fun
      uhhh anyway the assessments are really long and take a lot of work and something has gone wrong every assessment so far so I kinda regret taking it
    1. Biology (bit biased because I'm ranked first in my cohort but it's good content!
    2. PDHPE (ez pz, interesting content most of the time)
    3. SOR2 (interesting content and I'm fairly decent at it)
    4. Advanced English (meh, kind of boring but I'm good at it so I just gotta deal)
    5. Standard Maths (so easy it's boring)
    6. CHEMISTRY WITHOUT A DOUBT I'M SO GLAD I DROPPED IT. Might've liked it if I had a good teacher but nooo I got the one who growls at students.
    16 days later

    HSC:

    1. Chemistry
    2. Biology
    3. Food Technology (Hope I state rank, but omg the amount of writing)
    4. Physics
    5. Maths Adv. (Side Note: I did Ext 1. in Yr 11, but dropped it when T4 started. I didn't hate it, but I was just overwhelmed cause i never got time to study for it cause of all the science depth studies LOL)
    6. English Adv. <-- tbh, I don't despise English, but I really hate writing essays

    VCE

    1. AusPol - just a really enjoyable class, really interesting content
    2. English - did well in it, enjoyed the content although I struggled throughout the year to find motivation to write essays
    3. Methods - My interest supersedes my aptitude unfortunately
    4. SoftDev - its a full time job, terribly outdated content. Would not recommend
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