Students taking or having taken triple science, what's your experience? (2 Viewers)

[blueberrymilkbread]

all in the title.. but is it worth it? whats the workload like? is it a lot of content to memorise?

 

[vourzei]

all in the title.. but is it worth it? whats the workload like? is it a lot of content to memorise?

i did triple science in year 11 and dropped physics in year 12. in my experience it wasn’t as bad as everyone said. content is manageable.

in year 12 content definitely spikes up a bit for both chem and bio but it is manageable with time management and keeping up in class. can’t speak for year 12 physics but i thought yr 11 physics was a lot of work already

try all of them out for a term or two, i’m assuming ur yr 11 so it doesn’t go towards your atar anyway.

 

[ermmmmwhat]

i didnt take it but my two friends did all 3.
i think if you are passionate about science and plan to do it in the future, you will be fine. each of the three sciences are quite different - bio is all memorisation, physics is (arguably?) mostly analytical, and chem lies somewhere in between. and they all work together pretty nicely -> bio and chem content often go well together, as does chem and physics.

one of my friends who did triple sciences only did 10 units (only other subjects were math and english), whereas my second friend who did this did 12 (science + math ext). both of them liked it and hence chose to really focus on sciences. if you are passionate at this level it should be ok.

on another note, i was gonna take all 3 sciences but decided against it since i felt that it would be too much of one subject type - decided to switch physics out with history and was much happier! so this is another factor to consider, whether or not you would get burnt out of science cause u would be studying it nonstop.

 

[WeiWeiMan]

i didnt take it but my two friends did all 3.
i think if you are passionate about science and plan to do it in the future, you will be fine. each of the three sciences are quite different - bio is all memorisation, physics is (arguably?) mostly analytical, and chem lies somewhere in between. and they all work together pretty nicely -> bio and chem content often go well together, as does chem and physics.

one of my friends who did triple sciences only did 10 units (only other subjects were math and english), whereas my second friend who did this did 12 (science + math ext). both of them liked it and hence chose to really focus on sciences. if you are passionate at this level it should be ok.

on another note, i was gonna take all 3 sciences but decided against it since i felt that it would be too much of one subject type - decided to switch physics out with history and was much happier! so this is another factor to consider, whether or not you would get burnt out of science cause u would be studying it nonstop.

"switch physics out with history"
u may as well say
"switch history out with history"

 

[arleskirk]

I have a friend who did triple sciences and he dropped chem this year
if you're not going to take all of them seriously, just drop one of them. two sciences is already a ton of content to understand + apply, and if you fall into the trap of "oh one of these subjects is just memorising!" you're in for a very rude awakening. year 12 content is a step up generally but for chem, in my experience, it is miles easier than year 11 chem

 

[blueberrymilkbread]

"switch physics out with history"
u may as well say
"switch history out with history"

Is physics that history based now? I mean I heard from a friend of mine that it was only like half a module..

 

[cizura]

hi! i am currently in year 11 and i do all 3. in my personal experience, i don't think it's as challenging as people make it out to be it definitely requires a lot of hard work LMAO but that's kind of a given with any science subject

take my advice with a grain of salt though because i'm a pretty lazy person and i procrastinate like crazy which is ironic i just do the bare minimum during the term and then lock in when i actually need to and miraculously somehow it's worked out so far

one thing i really like is that some concepts carry across all 3 sciences, which really helps my understanding. it's really satisfying when something you learn in one subject helps explain an idea in another and it makes the content feel a lot more connected overall

also in terms of content there's honestly a lot less memorisation than i expected, even in bio, which surprised me - of course there are some things you need to know but a lot of the questions are more about applying your knowledge to stimulus, data, experiments and unfamiliar scenarios rather than just memorising info and regurgitating it

i think if you genuinely enjoy science and are willing to stay on top of the workload, you'll be completely fine!