Yeah mate. Haha year 11 was an absolute sunday stroll compared to year 12 :lol:

FUCKING HELL NO :lol:

Edit: Is it more of a workload thing? Or is the work itself more difficult?

Edited by 433: 27/5/2013 10:16:20 PM

Doing fluid mechanics and advanced thermodynamics in the same semester was the worst idea ever.

I promise you it's not that bad. I did jack all and did alright.
I took no notes all year. But my economics teacher always said, that if you can summarise each lesson in 2 sentences then that'll be enough :lol:

The first night you go out after exams are over you'll realise all that stress and teen angst was really over nothing, and that beer was actually there for you all along.

I've heard stories about fluid mechanics, I feel sorry for you man

I honestly found Year 11 more difficult than year 12. I think the step from 10>11 is a lot bigger than 11>12.

If you decide to study music, stay in Perth. WAAPA is fantastic according to my musician friends.

This.

I might sound like a know-it-all when I say this but just as long as you develop good habits then the workload isn't bad, its bigger but its manageable. Also I do agree with Funky, year 10 was the land of procrastination

Haha thanks. Looking forward to that drink already :lol:

Approaching the half way stage of my third year of Arts at Uni Melb, studying History and really hating uni at the moment, I only chose my major because I enjoyed studying it throughout school and first year, regretting it now as I'm studying a field I have no desire to seek employment in and no longer enjoy studying. I've coasted by, never putting in 100% and focused on my social life, but now uni has finally stepped up a gear and I really can't be fucked adapting to it.

I spent the first two years living on campus and met some of the best people and had the best time, now I've moved out with four of my best mates that I've met through living on res and I'm loving it. The fact I've made similarly lazy and equally problem drinker friends has not helped my education at all, but it's been the best three years of my life, and the only thing that makes uni worth it imo.

Studying a Bachelor of Business (Tourism and HR) full time at Uni of SOuthern QLD and working 25 hours a week.

Finding HR a lot harder than I thought I would, but still managing to do well in assignments and quizzes. Tourism on the other hand is awesome. Loving the major, learning so much and in final year will get the opportunity to work for 4 months at a tourism firm as part of one of my subjects. Uni life is great at the moment.

Year 11 was where you did all the learning. Year 12 was just reviewing what you knew.

Currently Studying (And Living) at Edith Cowan University here in Perth. Almost finished the University Preparation Course (my high school marks sucked) before moving onto a Bachelor of Science (Sports Science and Football) next semester. So keen.

Doing my Masters of Religious Studies at The Fred Nile Institute










































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Where is that? You must be so proud of the patron you have :lol:

Yep I'm in my last year of schooling. Not sure what I'm doing next year but. Look at a few cadetships with the likes of KPMG, PwC and so on. Got a good feeling I can get one of the positions after school simply by looking at some of the people they've selected previously. I know I'll be getting a higher ATAR than a few of them, as well as, at least in my opinion, better and more extra curricular bull shit that employers love.

Edited by keepersball: 27/5/2013 11:23:29 PM

Surely not. Year 11 is a walk in the park compared to so far three terms of Year 12.

This. Year 11 and 12 was roughly the same workload, except you had one less term to learn the same amount of information. I went from avergaing about 75% in Science in Year 10 (and about 80% average in the physics segment) to failing my mid-year exam for Physics in Year 11 and just scraping a B grade with 65% by years end. In Japanese, I went from averaging mid 70s to high 50s/low 60s.

Fluid dynamics was one of my best subjects.
Without a textbook everyone is fucked in Thermodynamics. There was something like a 55% pass rate in the two subjects at my uni. It took me two attempts to get through both. I'd go into the exam with 40-45 of the total marks in the subject already but find I couldn't fit all the information I needed on the double sided cheat sheet and get the 40% pass mark in the exam and technical fail even though my total marks would have been above 60% for the subject.

I'm doing pretty well in most of my subjects, but I barely pass English. Anyone else the same?

Edited by 433: 27/5/2013 11:40:08 PM

Year 12 was harder for me. That's when the extension 2 maths started having more and more complex multiple working page answers. They took a lot more effort to understand and I couldn't finish my homework in class anymore.
I don't think the other subjects were all that much harder other than the teachers piling on the pressure by emphasizing how important each assessment was.

Think I'll be swapping to part time uni for next semester. I just hate being swamped with four 2500+ word essays due within one week of each other. I also have to do at least 100 possibly 200 hours of work experience to graduate as well. :(

Me and the other 10,000 law students in this country who probably won't get a job. Oh well.

Edited by KenGooner_GCU: 28/5/2013 01:03:29 AM

Were you doing another course before that?

nah, I don't mind it though it keeps me busy and I'm not exactly sciency/mathsy any way.

Law has a lot of pathways depending on what takes your fancy. If I could commit myself to studying (which I know I can't), it'd be something I'd genuinely consider.

Worth noting that I don't think Funky did any maths classes in year 12?
But also, it definitely comes down to your ability to handle the pressure and subsequently your ability to keep working while also not really giving a fuck.

This is all you should take out of year 12, seriously:

My turn. BEng (Civil) (Hons). So tough to get a job these days, there's so much competition. A lot of graduates for very few places. Haven't worked a day this year, such is the state of the industry atm. My former supervisor was astonished when I told him about 60 of us graduated, as when he finished about 10 years ago, there were about 30 grads from his class and all had no problems finding a job.

In hindsight, I wish I'd done uni interstate or overseas like some of you guys here. It would have got me out of home, I'd have picked up so many general life skills and met a bunch of new people which is desperately what I need.



Agreed. What type of engineering are you doing, and what year are you up to?




Fluid mechanics for mechs must be much more difficult than the civil version of it? I didn't find (civil) fluid mechanics that bad.




Agreed. I blitzed year 10 and got rolled in year 11 and did alright in year 12.

Finished my assignment at 5am this morning... Handed it in... Now sleep time

You would have to do a thesis for Honours? If so, how did you go?
Are you thinking of further study?