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Is it advisable to do 10 units?

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Abbeegale:
I'm thinking of dropping a subject, which would leave me to 10 units. What's it like? Is it good? I need advice from those who did 10 units in year 12, or any advise from others! Thanks!

diesxel:
I'm not a lecturer or moderator or anything, but as a fellow student, the pros and cons of doing 10 units (as compared to 11+ units) are as follows (imo):

Pros:
Doing 10  units means you have more free/study periods at school, which you can utilise to concentrate and study for all your subjects, however, some students end up bludging or wasting these periods, so it's a matter of self control. You're also able to put in all your efforts into 10 units, rather than putting energy and hard work into more than 10 units, some of which wont even end up counting for your final atar

Cons:
You have no back up plan, so if one of your subjects goes "wrong", e.g you stuff up an asssessment, or something happens that causes you to not perform as well as you had planned, you can always rely on your other units instead, which is why doing 10 units is considered risky

Personally I do 10 units because I'm very invested and fairly confident in the subjects I have, and I enjoy them a lot. I also use my frees to my advantage to revise or do homework as much as possible, so that's helpful because I have more free time to revise at home!

But yeah, that's my 2 cents  :D

jamonwindeyer:
Thanks diesxel for such an awesome response ;D

Pretty much everything I would say has been said above - Extra units is a nice fall back but dropping to 10 units is a good idea if you are struggling with the workload. I'd personally say that if you are managing decently with 12 units, keep them, because that extra time might not be as useful as you think. A lot of people who drop the units don't end up investing that time sensibly in their other subjects. So I suppose my advice would be, if you've ever thought, "Gosh I wish I had time to do _________ for this other subject, but I don't possibly have time," then maybe consider dropping! If not then maybe try and stick it out ;D

The amount of units you do is no indicator of success either. I did 12 units and got 99.80, our English lecturer (same school, similar subjects) did 10 units and got 99.85; hard work will carry you through either way ;D

elysepopplewell:

--- Quote from: Abbeegale on February 06, 2017, 06:02:41 pm ---I'm thinking of dropping a subject, which would leave me to 10 units. What's it like? Is it good? I need advice from those who did 10 units in year 12, or any advise from others! Thanks!

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If the subject that you are considering dropping is a subject that you don't like then I think you are definitely best getting rid of the dead weight. If you're considering dropping purely for the potential benefits of 10 units and free time, then the above comments will help as guidance. But if the subject you are considering dropping is something that demotivates you, you spend more time on then probably is due, and you don't look forward to it at all, then it's best you remove it from your study load simply for the purpose of leaving yourself with enjoyable things to study! It's a deadweight if you don't like it.

If you do like it, and you're just trying to be strategic...refer to the above ;)

bowiemily:

--- Quote from: Abbeegale on February 06, 2017, 06:02:41 pm ---I'm thinking of dropping a subject, which would leave me to 10 units. What's it like? Is it good? I need advice from those who did 10 units in year 12, or any advise from others! Thanks!

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Hey Abbeegale,
As Jamon said before, I did do 10 units and I still did well in my HSC. The reason that I dropped down to ten was that the Extension subjects at my school were largely self driven, and I didn't feel as if I would be capable of doing this on top of my current workload. I also dropped a two unit subject at the end of year eleven because I found myself incredibly bored in the classes, and that translated to how much work I did at home for the subject (little to none). So, considering it had a major work, it was best to drop it for me. So these are some things that may relate to your own decision.
You may think about scaling when deciding to drop to ten units, I know it was on my mind. In the end though, with ten units I was able to try my absolute hardest in the subjects I did have. I don't regret doing ten units at all.
Hope this helps!

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