Hi everyone, I thought I'd make separate thread just for Nossal students so we don't bombard the other Victorian Selective Entry thread. I was just wondering if anyone has received anything from Nossal after they sent out the enrolment email. Orientation day is in two and a half weeks and they said they would send out information about electives this month. Just wondering in case I didn't enroll properly or something.

    Ommahp Hey!!! I'm also going to Nossal next year and I also haven't heard anything about enrolment. I've also heard other kids at my school who are going to NHS also asking the same question, I'm pretty sure no ones been told anything yet. In addition, if you see on the NHS website you are able to see that they haven't uploaded the choice subjects for year 9 yet either

        monket
        Thanks for replying! It's reassuring to know that everyone hasn't received anything as well. My friend said that the school emailed him when he didn't enroll properly so they've probably read through everyone's enrolment forms. Hopefully they'll send out more information this week since orientation day is coming up.

          monket
          I think I'll do photography and music since I like both of those. And visual communication design will probably be my back up. The electives are kind of plain to be honest and I find it weird that there are 4 art based electives and 3 drama/music based electives. Also, food studies is crazy expensive, I didn't expect it to be $245. It's also kind of funny how the cover of the handbook says Year 9 Electives 2023 but the title of the first page says 2022.

          Also where on the Nossal website did you find the electives pdf? Maybe I'm blind but I can't find it. I don't need to find it because I used your link but I have the urge to figure out where it is.

              Ommahp I found it underneath the year 9 2023 enrolment documentation thing which you click on after clicking on enrolment information haha

                It says on the Nossal booklist that the language workbook have to be bought new but like, surely I can just rub out the work out of my French workbook. I already used it a bit this year since I do VSL French and I really don't want to spend another $40 on a new book when I have a half used one. Do you guys think it'll be fine? Because it's not like I'm buying a second hand book that already has answers written in, like it's my own work and it's stuff that I've already learnt.

                  monket I don't really like any of the options either but probably either music and food studies or music and photography. Back up will probably be the one I don't choose out of those three.

                    Ommahp It probably will be fine, if you are unsure you could ask the school on orientation 🙂

                      I have a question, I've been doing Japanese self study for a few months now but I originally wrote on the enrolment to do Japanese beginner... I'm now worried that I might be too advanced for beginner but not enough for intermediate 😭Should I go tell Nossal that-

                        monket
                        Hi, Monket!
                        At Nossal, they'll usually give a start of year exam and check that the whole class is on board with beginners or intermediate (or at least that's what happened to us last year). I think that both classes are pretty similar, its just that intermediate means already knowing all hiragana and revising katakana i think. Most intermediate people have done japanese for a few years, but some have little to no experience at all. Overall, don't worry too much!

                            Yolk15 Thank you!! If they are revising katakana then I might need to be in intermediate then 😅

                              Yolk15
                              Do you know if the French classes have the start of year exam too or is it just for Japanese? And if you put your preferences for intermediate, can you be moved to the beginner class if your start of year exam scores aren't on par with the rest of the class?

                                  Yolk15 What topics do they cover on the start of year exam for the intermediate Japanese? Just so that I can see if I am up to par with what they expect 🙂

                                      Ommahp
                                      I assume they would. You can't really move to another language class, because the classes are based on what house you are. So, 2 houses in Jap beginner, and 2 houses in Jap intermediate. If the majority of your class is beginner, you do beginner as well i think.

                                        Randomhuman24
                                        So I did intermediate, but I honestly don't remember much. Its not actually a big exam, just a short test to let the teachers know what you know. It will probably be reading, writing, a hiragana table, and vocab translation. I can say, however, that when I did term 1 last year, we covered vocab (family, daily routines, time), short conversations (how are you, etc.), and particles.

                                        Don't worry too much about year 9 languages, because it is not compulsory going into year 10, and onwards into VCE.

                                            Randomhuman24
                                            I don't remember if it's on the test, but you do learn/revise katakana throughout the semester (using the included exercise books on the booklist).