Hey everyone!
Student from the Year 10 Hornsby Girls cohort here, looking for some advice for subject selection for Year 11.
Right now, I'm doing Software Engineering (IST accelerated) and I plan to continue this until Year 12. The teacher is nice, the environment is chill and I really enjoy this subject as a whole 🙂
My dream goal is to study Med + Software Engineering in the States after HS. Computers are my passion and I REALLY enjoy learning programming & coding at dubious hours of the night in my bedroom 🙂 Instead of completing a double degree (Med + Software), I hope to complete certificates and develop my own projects in programming in order to support myself through the final years of Med school + any further study. Also, if I were to double I would prefer choosing some more niche Med topics to dive deeper into.
Andrew Huberman is quite literally a hero of mine. And I hope to pursue a career in the Neuroscience field. I'd love to study the science behind computers + brains and whatever the future holds for this subject.
My current subject selection is:
- Eng Advanced
- Maths Advanced
- Maths Ext. 1
- Chem & Physics
- Modern History
- Software Engineering
Eng Advanced = must
Maths Advanced + Maths Ext. 1 = must (because I play to do Ext. 2 in Year 12)
Chem + Physics
- Both subjects are slightly more interesting than Bio for me, they are known to scale better, and the teacher for Bio is not good
Modern History ??
- Extra subject: I have always enjoyed history and regard myself as a good essay writer, and there are really no other subject OTHER THAN the finance ones / legal (I don't plan to do Ext. English or Languages at all). I do not enjoy finance subjects at all, and legal is honestly toooooooo content heavy for a subject I can't find myself diving into and enjoying. Eco is known to be one of the best scalers, but Modern History is right up there too in the top 3, and scaling changes every year.
Software Engineering --> Yay!
= 13 units (minimum 12)
In Year 12, I plan to do:
- Eng Advanced
- Maths Advanced
- Maths Ext. 1
- Maths Ext. 2
- Chem & Physics
- Modern History
- Software Engineering
Which equals 14 units, so I plan to drop 1 subject depending on my performance/enjoyment in Year 11.
Any advice??? Thanks guys!!
