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Im re enrolling at my local high school to do the HSC, starting term 4. If you struggle with all of the subs that ur doing and people in ur family, want you to change to another subject, what would you do? Catch is: my nan is saying drop Modern and my my mum is saying drop drama! So confused.

i am so confused

thanks for your help

shayla
 

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shayla said:
Im re enrolling at my local high school to do the HSC, starting term 4. If you struggle with all of the subs that ur doing and people in ur family, want you to change to another subject, what would you do? Catch is: my nan is saying drop Modern and my my mum is saying drop drama! So confused.

i am so confused

thanks for your help

shayla
Follow your heart. Your family members are not the ones who will be undertaking the HSC courses. However, I suggest you take advices that mostly suit you. For example, my mom suggested that I do Chemistry as my future career path may lie in pharmacy.
 

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hahaha lyounamu u could get into pharm for sure! ur too smart :p as for whether you should change your subjects or not depends on whether or not u can improve ur mark from hard work and whether or not u like dat subject
 

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Family members can affect you to large extent. It happened to me as I suggested earlier. It was my mom who wanted me to undertake Chemistry because I was good at science & she wished that I become pharmacist. However, it took her few months to realise that my love did not lie with Chemistry & the Pharmacy degree.

So, make a right decision. Follow your heart & do whatever you wish to do (however there are factors that you need to consider such as your aptitude for that subject, your love & interest and etc.)
 

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Honestly, you're never going to make your entire family happy. Do the courses you need for uni, and then make up the rest of your units with things you like. if you don't know what you want to do at uni, then I'd reccommend do maths, a science, maybe either history or geography, and then make up the rest of your units with stuff you like. As much as possible, try to do stuff you'll do well at, unless you absolutely hate things you're good at, in which case, I'd go for stuff you like.
 
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lyounamu said:
Family members can affect you to large extent. It happened to me as I suggested earlier. It was my mom who wanted me to undertake Chemistry because I was good at science & she wished that I become pharmacist. However, it took her few months to realise that my love did not lie with Chemistry & the Pharmacy degree.

So, make a right decision. Follow your heart & do whatever you wish to do (however there are factors that you need to consider such as your aptitude for that subject, your love & interest and etc.)
What do you want to do ?
 

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thanks for the advice

i am probably going to do both Modern and Drama (they were the subs that ppl well telling me differently) cos ive been told by a tutor that if say i drop modern, i have to pick up a sub cos i did one of my units at tafe so thats not involved in the hsc so he said that i have to work hard no matter what subs i do and no matter how much work is involved etc.

So i hope my dedication for the second time round, my attitude to want to complete the HSC and the fact that even tho my subs arent going to be easy, that i will just try my hardest and work like anything!
 
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i am probably going to do both Modern and Drama (they were the subs that ppl well telling me differently) cos ive been told by a tutor that if say i drop modern, i have to pick up a sub cos i did one of my units at tafe so thats not involved in the hsc so he said that i have to work hard no matter what subs i do and no matter how much work is involved etc.
actually tafe units do count toward your hsc but may not be included in your uai. it really depends if you want to go to uni or not. if not i'd say drop a subject, you'd still be eligable for the hsc.

So i hope my dedication for the second time round, my attitude to want to complete the HSC and the fact that even tho my subs arent going to be easy, that i will just try my hardest and work like anything!
good luck with that. :)
 

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lyounamu said:
Family members can affect you to large extent. It happened to me as I suggested earlier. It was my mom who wanted me to undertake Chemistry because I was good at science & she wished that I become pharmacist. However, it took her few months to realise that my love did not lie with Chemistry & the Pharmacy degree.

So, make a right decision. Follow your heart & do whatever you wish to do (however there are factors that you need to consider such as your aptitude for that subject, your love & interest and etc.)
your american?

ok maybe that's a bit off topic,but how are you going in drama and modern? i would drop my lowest scoring subject.
 

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aside from the obvious, follow your heart, consider your future, be who you wanna be, remember that your family only has, i hope, your best intrest at heart. they say what they say out of love.
 

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bettina44 said:
your american?

ok maybe that's a bit off topic,but how are you going in drama and modern? i would drop my lowest scoring subject.
No. I am just used to writing "mom" instead of "mum" because I have been writing "mom" for the last 3 years.
 

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lyounamu said:
No. I am just used to writing "mom" instead of "mum" because I have been writing "mom" for the last 3 years.
And your English teachers accept that?
 

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Aerath said:
And your English teachers accept that?
Well I have never been pointed out before because I hardly (or never) write "mom" in my essays. :D
 

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lyounamu said:
Well I have never been pointed out before because I hardly (or never) write "mom" in my essays. :D
So much for using it then for the past 3 years, eh?
 

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lyounamu said:
Well I have never been pointed out before because I hardly (or never) write "mom" in my essays. :D
It would be wise to adopt the British spelling as we are living in Australia.
 

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lyounamu said:
Family members can affect you to large extent. It happened to me as I suggested earlier. It was my mom who wanted me to undertake Chemistry because I was good at science & she wished that I become pharmacist. However, it took her few months to realise that my love did not lie with Chemistry & the Pharmacy degree.

So, make a right decision. Follow your heart & do whatever you wish to do (however there are factors that you need to consider such as your aptitude for that subject, your love & interest and etc.)
Seriously, I'm not taking a stab at you, but I absolutely despise the way you write. I've got no idea why, but it just makes my blood boil.
 

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Pick the subjects you think you'll enjoy or will be most appropriate for your University course in the future. If you do not wish to attend uni, just follow your heart, like Lyounamu said :). Don't let your parents enforce your decision negatively e.g. Don't do DRAMA!, Modern history is POINTLESS etc etc. It's up to you to decide, as you will be the one sitting your HSC.

SomeoneCool said:
Seriously, I'm not taking a stab at you, but I absolutely despise the way you write. I've got no idea why, but it just makes my blood boil.
If you're not taking a stab at him, then keep it to yourself, ok?
 
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Seriously, I'm not taking a stab at you, but I absolutely despise the way you write. I've got no idea why, but it just makes my blood boil.
Then that's your fault, isn't it?

Seriously, you don't even know why you despite the way I write. Your statement is basically answer without explanation (and hence 0 mark).

By the way, you WERE taking a stab at me.
 
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Must have been the "follow you heart" statment. It reminded me of the scaling speeches the teachers made last year, and those speaches were very irritating especially since all the teachers were contradicting each other.
 

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