imagine going to a selective school and not even being able to do hard subjects what
ikr it's actually so stupid
like how it works is all throughout years 9 and 10 (so for a lot of people this is from when you're age 13) each assessment task counts a little bit towards your eligibility for the course (kinda like the hsc funnily enough except its just to do the course, not to get a final mark)
and then you have an entrance exam sometime in year 10
and all this determines whether you can get in, and finally around term 3 they say who got in
but then there's more...
when the results are released in term 3 they have the first round of offers and within two weeks you have to hand a form back to the science faculty saying either YES/NO that you want to do the course
and for those who say no offers are given to the next round of people (theres like a reserve list but you don't know where you are on it) and so on until all the spots are filled (a bit like getting into a selective school)
annoying thing is for people who are like "i wanna do (for example) music 1 for my HSC but if that clashes with another subject I wanna do chemistry" then they can't put it down as a reserve at all
because you have to say YES/NO before you even choose your subjects, let alone get them back
so a fair few of my friends have ended up with subjects they hate because of this
its a sucky system
(anyway end of rant lmfao)
/compare writing to exemplar/fall asleep & wake up to see how shit my writing is)
