I'm not sure whether I should do food studies or psychology next year (I'm dropping chinese). My subjects for year 12 are going to be methods, chemistry, english, art, and either food studies/psychology. The cooking part of food studies sounds fun, but a lot of people say the content is kinda dry and it scales down a lot. The content in psych sounds interesting but it's really content heavy and there's a lot of memorisation involved. I'm doing well in 3/4 busman this year if that helps.

    I think pysch would be more engaging & better off in terms of study score. Food studies would be less time consuming & easier.

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    I'm in year 11 psychology currently and as someone who enjoys psychology theory it is quite boring, it covers a heap of topics that like you mentioned all need to be memorised which makes it difficult it and it also scales down, I would suggest food studies however, before you decide I would suggest looking at the syllabus for each subject so you know exactly what you will be studying and can then make a fully informed decision.

    quackquack as someone who has done both, I genuiely enjoyed both subjects. Find the content you enoy more is my biggest tip, they are very different subjects (some minor overlap with the gut brain axis though). Food studies is a lot broader so you cover a wider range of topics wheras psych of course is limited to just psychology.
    Scaling I'd say is not something to be too concerned about, focus on which class you think youll enjoy/want to learn about more.
    I also do business and the subject has some minor overlap with both, a lot of the study designs seem to have at least a tiny bit of things that link well with the others

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