Unless you're published. Don't.
Poems are created in their editing phase. Nobody can write a good poem in that amount of time, nor will it have nearly enough content in it for them to mark. You'd be sabotaging yourself doing poetry. It'll most likely give you a specific text type anyway.
I think a lot of people end up going with not belonging. To be honest I probably will, we are supposed to be showing a change in sense of belonging in a sense anyway. So its either from belonging to alienation, or from alienation to belonging.
Chem gets a lot harder. You really need to know your base year 11 stuff to succeed in it. I was pulling 90+ in chem in year 11 and now I'm only pulling 70-80. It gets very intense, but its manageable as long as you work at it. Music is a good subject to keep with, I honestly only dropped it...
The story has to be based on the quote. Your narrative needs to answer the stimulus. If the quote is 'quack I'm a duck', you best be writing a story about how that damn duck has difficulties with belonging. Just putting the quote in there doesn't show that you can adapt your narrative to show a...
So essentially what you're saying there is getting 50% in standard English has the same atar equivalent as getting a 50% in advanced. which is incorrect. Of course not. Advanced is harder. Your atar equivalent will be higher in advanced despite getting the same mark. It's a harder subject. It...
I do almost the same subjects as you. Dropped music due to stress about major work, but honestly it was easy as piss. You can easily get a good atar with those subjects. And just so you know advanced maths is real repetititve in year 12, I wouldn't drop it, it gets better.
I start with writing the question in a statement form... So the markers sitting there all like 'sh*t this b*tch be answerin all the stimulus points being assessed' and then I get a 99.95 and become the president of the world. Life goals.
Below 300 school rank and your extension class only has 5 people? My schools ranked horrifically and even we have 15 hahaha. You can get an 84 no trouble, just don't screw up English, standard doesn't scale great.
It doesn't matter at all. I used an art journal purely because I used a lot of pictures and didn't want the lines. But it doesn't matter at all. You can staple paper together if that's what you want.