For those who have already completed VCE and are doing some sort of Engineering degree, Is Specialist Maths a unit which would really help with an Engineering course in University. I am aware it is not a prerequisite for engineering but I have heard some of the first year material depends on some knowledge in spesh.
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I'm currently doing some engineering subjects at UniMelb, thinking about potentially majoring in it (we don't have to pick our majors in first year). From what I know, there are two maths subjects that you have to complete before second year (you could potentially do one in first semester of second year, but that would be more difficult and I'm not sure if you'd be allowed to for a lot of prerequisite subjects). Both these maths subjects have 30+ in specialist as a prerequisite, and if you didn't do spesh, you have to do an additional maths subject before you do those two. Almost everyone I know in engineering did specialist, and the rest did one maths subject last semester and two this semester (don't put yourself in that position). Doing one in semester 1, one semester 2 and one over the summer break is also an option, but that's never fun. Although it didn't specify that you had to do specialist to get into my degree and doing spesh wasn't a requirement for the first year engineering subjects, the maths subjects that lead on from spesh are a requirement from second year onwards.
I didn't think spesh would be a requirement for anything but it was, and although there are additional subjects you can do to make up for it, it puts you in a difficult position with getting all the prerequisite subjects complete. Plus you don't want to be doing maths as a summer subject.
I recommend doing it just because there may be prerequisites you don't know about, and if you do it now it'll make uni a lot easier without having to worry about an extra prerequisite subject.