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).

                                ~ndha~
                                I'm pretty sure we can only pick two electives, one for each semester.

                                  Hi all,
                                  Should I call the school to get help in this situation? I got put into Japanese Beginner, but that wasn’t in my preferences. I put Japanese (intermediate) as my first preference, and French beginner as my second, so I am unsure how this could have happened.
                                  Has anybody faced an issue like this as well?

                                    monket
                                    I'm in Garuda doing Beginner Japanese. I really wanted to do Intermediate French but Japanese is fine. I'm in tute class 0A3 and teaching class 2. Both of which my friend isn't in but he's doing Beginner Japanese too so hopefully we have some class together. Also what electives are you going to choose since the two I wanted to do are in the same semester.