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a weaponized ikea chair

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See title. Like you might put

Difficulty
1. chemistry
2. Biology
. . .
so on, and then u do the same for enjoyment. Obviously, no one has done all the subjects at once, but just go off other experiences or whatever. No answers like "you can't rank them" because if you can't rank them don't reply. thanks
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Re: Rank all the sciences in terms of difficulty and enjoyment (for you)
« Reply #1 on: August 24, 2020, 05:37:24 pm »
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Difficulty:
1. Physics
2. Biology
3. Chemistry
4. Psychology

Yes I think bio is harder than chem, I hate memorising haha. Physics was just confusing to me before I dropped it, especially waves. Not much experience with psych but all the assessments I did for it I got full marks haha with not much effort.

Enjoyment:
1. Chemistry, my love
2. Psychology
3. Biology and Physics I think...

I only do chem at VCE so obviously it's my favourite haha. I did physics for about a month but I didn't like it much. I only had a small taster of psych in year 10 but enjoyed it and found it quite easy. Biology and I have never been friends but I really enjoyed the genetics unit in year 10 but despised all other bio I did in junior science.
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Re: Rank all the sciences in terms of difficulty and enjoyment (for you)
« Reply #2 on: August 24, 2020, 05:37:59 pm »
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Not a Victorian (I guess delete this if this was meant to only be a VCE thing), but I did do all three sciences at GCSE level, then Chemistry and Biology at IB level. I'll be ranking them from most difficult/most enjoyable to least difficult/least enjoyable.

GCSE
Difficulty
  • Chemistry (nearly failed it for 1.5 years, was horrifically difficult to catch up with in the remaining 0.5)
  • Biology (found it reasonably easy, but ended up with the lowest exam grade out of the three)
  • Physics
Enjoyment
  • Biology (my teacher was great)
  • Physics
  • Chemistry (hated it)

IB
Difficulty
  • Chemistry
  • Biology (I found the memorisation part of biology hard, but I must have done something right to finish with a grade that was higher than predicted)
Enjoyment
  • Chemistry (loved it, sadly wasn't very good at it)
  • Biology (hated memorisation, didn't really enjoy anything that wasn't human biology)
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Re: Rank all the sciences in terms of difficulty and enjoyment (for you)
« Reply #3 on: August 24, 2020, 05:53:20 pm »
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Difficulty
1. Physics
2. Chemistry
3. Biology
4. Psychology

Doing Chem, Bio and Psych right now and finding Chem to be significantly harder than Bio and Psych although Psych is arguably the easier one between Bio and Psych. Did Unit 1  Physics and hated it and didn't understand anything.

Enjoyment
1. Psychology
2. Biology
3. Chemistry
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Re: Rank all the sciences in terms of difficulty and enjoyment (for you)
« Reply #4 on: August 24, 2020, 06:24:56 pm »
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I have done all 4! Though I traded physics 1/2 for psych and bio 3/4

Difficulty:
1.Bio
2. Psych
3. Chemistry
4. Physics

And yes you read that correctly, folks, this is from hardest to easiest  in my opinion. Keep in mind not doing 3/4 psych made research methods a nightmare for me lol. Chem I love so I find it easy but small calculator errors, rounding, sig figs etc add up in SACs  :P making me look like I know nothing. Bios easy BUT the exam is gonna be interesting bc wording is SO important in bio you can know it all, but miss those “buzz” words and your done for. Physics should be renamed plug and chug (1/2 at least) A3 *cough* double sided *cough* cheat sheet in end of year exam.

Enjoyment
1. Chemistry
2. Bio
3. Psych ( we are doing research methods Rn so maybe that’s clouding my judgement)
4. Physics (VCE physics is dry- if it was better taught I’d maybe enjoy it)
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Re: Rank all the sciences in terms of difficulty and enjoyment (for you)
« Reply #5 on: August 24, 2020, 08:34:08 pm »
+3
Difficulty:
1. Chemistry
2. Physics
3. Biology
4. Psychology
 
*this is from most difficult to the easiest*

Enjoyment:
1. Chemistry: except for all the theory side of stuff, the maths aspect and appliance to reality makes me enjoy VCE chem the most
2. Biology: Personally love learning about how the human body functions and anatomy
3. Psych
4. Physics
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Re: Rank all the sciences in terms of difficulty and enjoyment (for you)
« Reply #6 on: August 24, 2020, 09:09:00 pm »
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(I'm only doing Chem and Physics rn but I did Psych and Bio back in Year 10 - so that def impacts some results)

Difficulty:
Chemistry
Physics
Bio
Psych

Enjoyment:
Chemistry
Three way tie between Bio, Psych, and Physics since I haven't done much of bio and psych to accurately say if I liked it or not. I'm sure I would have though if I continued with them.

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Re: Rank all the sciences in terms of difficulty and enjoyment (for you)
« Reply #7 on: August 24, 2020, 09:48:29 pm »
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Difficulty:
Psych  (Easiset)
Bio (Hardest)

Enjoyment:
Bio (Most fun)
Psych (Lowkey boring)

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Re: Rank all the sciences in terms of difficulty and enjoyment (for you)
« Reply #8 on: August 24, 2020, 09:55:08 pm »
+2
Difficulty
1. Physics
2. Chemistry
3. Biology
4. Psychology

Enjoyment
1. Biology
2. Chemistry
3. Physics (I wish I had picked it for VCE)
4. Psychology (I find certain aspects fun, but things like memory is kinda boring)
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Re: Rank all the sciences in terms of difficulty and enjoyment (for you)
« Reply #9 on: August 24, 2020, 09:55:57 pm »
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Psych (Lowkey boring)
I feel personally attacked. :'(

Now I've definitely got to make my post on this thread.

Difficulty:
1. Chem
2. Bio
3. Psych

Enjoyment:
1. Psych
2. Bio
3. Chem

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Re: Rank all the sciences in terms of difficulty and enjoyment (for you)
« Reply #10 on: August 24, 2020, 10:08:06 pm »
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I feel personally attacked. :'(
I'm sorry hahah, Honestly think its just my teacher tho, I was enjoying it when we had a different teacher  ::)
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Re: Rank all the sciences in terms of difficulty and enjoyment (for you)
« Reply #11 on: August 25, 2020, 04:44:03 am »
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Putting the most enjoyable/hardest at the top:

Enjoyment
1. Chemistry
2. Physics
3. Psychology
4. Biology

Difficulty
1. Biology
2. Psychology
3. Chemistry
4. Physics

I'll take a list of equations and some facts* over "this is true 60% of the time" and a whole tree of memorising any day

*=But also chemistry in university is just every year finding out what they taught you last year was wrong and this is the REAL theory on bonding lol