Chinese Beginners or IDT for year 11/12? (1 Viewer)

[thatnameistaken]

Hi, what subject should I pick for next year?
My current choices are
English std (2)
Maths ext 1 (3)
Jap continuers (2)
Enterprise computing (2)
Hospitality Cookery (2)

My year 9/10 electives are PDM and Japanese and I get As in both of them

I need to select one more subject so im thinking whether to do Chinese or IDT (tafe digital)
Im already fluent at speaking in Chinese but I cant read and write (unless i have learnt the kanji in Japanese but i still don't know)
Secondly I havent been confirmed for Chinese and feel like I might be rejected as I look too Asian
Meanwhile I am good at computing but the Enterprise teacher in our school are not good (there's only 1)
While I would prefer in person tafe, Maths and Hospitality take up the outside of school slots, so I can only do it online

So should I do Chinese and IDT but drop Enterprise
or Enterprise and IDT
or Enterprise and Chinese
or drop another subject and replace it with one of these 2
Also its too late to add new subjects now and I have to submit the TAFE acceptance form by next Monday.

 

[Hehehe22]

Are you Chinese? Because then you can't do Chinese Beginners, but you can do Chinese Continuers. If you aren't Chinese but you're already fluent at speaking, you'll be fine doing Beginners because the reading and writing part is very simple. Knowing how to speak already sets you up for success.

 

[thatnameistaken]

I am Chinese but born in Australia. My languages head teacher says as long as you haven't had formal education you can do beginners. I didn't think there was anything related to nationality in the form, just ability in reading and writing. I put no ability for reading and writing and never for speaking with family in Chinese in the last year. Do you still think I am still able to get in as they have no way to check anything and this is technically true.

 

[thatnameistaken]

Also can teachers who don't like you affect your mark. In year 9 my PDM teacher was biased towards a group of students and this caused me to only get average for the subject. But this year our old teacher changed schools and I am suddenly getting As even though my photos are objectively worse (blurry, out of focus). Will this happen with enterprise computing. Our enterprise teacher is extremely strict and hates me, and also teaches like our maths teacher (doesnt explain anything apart from reading out the textbook and expects you to be able to do it). Its strange how the top 5.3 class stays at the top with our current teacher (its because everyone goes to tutoring)

 

[Hehehe22]

I am Chinese but born in Australia. My languages head teacher says as long as you haven't had formal education you can do beginners. I didn't think there was anything related to nationality in the form, just ability in reading and writing. I put no ability for reading and writing and never for speaking with family in Chinese in the last year. Do you still think I am still able to get in as they have no way to check anything and this is technically true.

Hmm you're risking it a bit by doing that. Not having formal education in Chinese qualifies you for Continuers, not Beginners. For Beginners, you're meant to have had no spoken or written experience in Chinese at all, unless you did a Chinese course in your junior years (which I'm assuming you didn't?). Of course they might never find out, but to be safe you should probably just go with IDT and enterprise.

 

[eunoia]

I don't think u should do Chinese paired with Japanese because obviously they share kanji, but the kanji usually has 'on' (Chinese) and 'kun' (Japanese) readings, which u could get confused with (i know from experience because I tried)

but idk who u are, u might be a god at learning languages, who knows

 

[Hehehe22]

Also can teachers who don't like you affect your mark. In year 9 my PDM teacher was biased towards a group of students and this caused me to only get average for the subject. But this year our old teacher changed schools and I am suddenly getting As even though my photos are objectively worse (blurry, out of focus). Will this happen with enterprise computing. Our enterprise teacher is extremely strict and hates me, and also teaches like our maths teacher (doesnt explain anything apart from reading out the textbook and expects you to be able to do it). Its strange how the top 5.3 class stays at the top with our current teacher (its because everyone goes to tutoring)

Also, this sounds really bad. Teachers are meant to be objective, but sometimes things like that happen. You'll find that in senior years the school puts more effort into reducing bias in marking, for example, in written exams you only write your NESA number not your name so that the marker can't identify you. The only time when bias might come into the picture is if you do a hand-in task, but even then I don't think your teacher can give you a bad mark without good justification. You can easily appeal for extra marks or remarking, usually to the head teacher.