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.

                                Ommahp I'm also doing beginner Japanese and my tute is 0N2 and teaching class is 6 🙂 The electives I'm going for in Semester 1 are art, food studies and then creative design (really don't want creative design but the others are worse in my opinion haha) and then semester 2 would be photography, theatre studies and then visual communications. All I know is that I really don't want electronics and then I'm okay 😄

                                    monket
                                    Yeah I really don't want to do electronics either. I'll probably end up doing food studies, art and creative design for semester one even though I don't really like the options. Semester two I'll do music, photography or viscom. I wish that photography and music were in different semesters since those are the only two I want to do but I guess its fine.

                                      monket I'm in Garuda doing beginner Japanese as well, tute class 0A4 I think...? and teaching class 1.

                                        monket I have a feeling elec will be pretty popular so as long as you didn't fill elec as your first choice I don't think you'll get it as an elective