should I drop music extension or chemistry? (1 Viewer)

[suckmytoes]

I'm kinda stuck right now and would appreciate any advice. I'm on 12 units rn.
I did pretty bad in both subjects:

• For music ext, i'm ranked last out of 5 people (got a C, 75) while everyone else got above 85. my teacher absolutely hates me asw.
• For chemistry, I flopped both assessments: got 70 for Task 1 and 50 (below average for task 2). I don't know my exact rank but prolly near the bottom of the cohort.

I'm stressing because I don't know which one would be better to drop. What would you recommend?

 

[Legendary16]

I'm kinda stuck right now and would appreciate any advice. I'm on 12 units rn.
I did pretty bad in both subjects:

• For music ext, i'm ranked last out of 5 people (got a C, 75) while everyone else got above 85. my teacher absolutely hates me asw.
• For chemistry, I flopped both assessments: got 70 for Task 1 and 50 (below average for task 2). I don't know my exact rank but prolly near the bottom of the cohort.

I'm stressing because I don't know which one would be better to drop. What would you recommend?

Dropping extension would relieve you of 1 unit only, while chemistry is a well scaling subject that you'd miss out on. What you need to consider more than scaling however, is how you think your progress can improve if you were to put the effort in for either subject, their current effect on your workload and what you wish to do in uni. Judging by you doing music extension, you may be considering a career in music and perhaps, music 2 may be enough of a requisite for most universities offering music courses. If you're leaning towards something like chemical engineering or medicine, chemistry would be helpful with reaching a certain ATAR requirement as well as a requisite for either course. Unfortunately these subjects are vastly different and so you'll really have to weigh in on these considerations to choose between the two.

 

[killer queen]

I'm kinda stuck right now and would appreciate any advice. I'm on 12 units rn.
I did pretty bad in both subjects:

• For music ext, i'm ranked last out of 5 people (got a C, 75) while everyone else got above 85. my teacher absolutely hates me asw.
• For chemistry, I flopped both assessments: got 70 for Task 1 and 50 (below average for task 2). I don't know my exact rank but prolly near the bottom of the cohort.

I'm stressing because I don't know which one would be better to drop. What would you recommend?

Idk your exact academic programme but you might need to check if you can even drop chem at all - I’m pretty sure there’s a thing that your 10 units in year 12 cannot include one of the extensions you pick up in year 12 (i.e. eng ext 1 and math ext 1 count to the 10 unit total but no other ext does), other people correct me if I’m wrong but that’s what my school told us at least

Scaling shouldn’t be a concern imo bc both scale quite well, I assume music ext scales better than music 2 which already does pretty well
I’d say thinking about how much time you put in each is very important, because it seems you’re unhappy with your performance in both - which one would you say would give you more time to work on the other?
Ik @Legendary16 said music ext is only a 1U subject but as someone who does music 2, the major works take up sooooo much time and energy, like honestly I might spend more time on practice than I do on chem (and that’s ignoring studying for the theoretical side although tbh I don’t study and anyways music ext only has the bits you chose)

But I agree with him when he says that ultimately it’s probably whichever one contributes more to ur planned career

 

[Legendary16]

Idk your exact academic programme but you might need to check if you can even drop chem at all - I’m pretty sure there’s a thing that your 10 units in year 12 cannot include one of the extensions you pick up in year 12 (i.e. eng ext 1 and math ext 1 count to the 10 unit total but no other ext does), other people correct me if I’m wrong but that’s what my school told us at least

Scaling shouldn’t be a concern imo bc both scale quite well, I assume music ext scales better than music 2 which already does pretty well
I’d say thinking about how much time you put in each is very important, because it seems you’re unhappy with your performance in both - which one would you say would give you more time to work on the other?
Ik @Legendary16 said music ext is only a 1U subject but as someone who does music 2, the major works take up sooooo much time and energy, like honestly I might spend more time on practice than I do on chem (and that’s ignoring studying for the theoretical side although tbh I don’t study and anyways music ext only has the bits you chose)

But I agree with him when he says that ultimately it’s probably whichever one contributes more to ur planned career

Given what I've seen a friend in music 2 do for his major works and his assessments, I can agree that music extension would have a solid workload like chem and as you said, it would scale well.