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Dear Year 10 Students,
Dear Year 10 Students,
It's time to choose your course of study for the HSC, which can be both exciting and challenging. In the early stages of high school there was a broad curriculum where every student was encouraged to learn as many subject areas as possible. Now at the senior end of school, you are invited to specialise and to pursue the subjects that interest you most.
We encourage you to explore your talents and map out for yourself your own educational pathway. These days, you are provided with many options. You can choose a purely academic program leading to university, or you can choose to develop life skills by completing a more vocational pathway, or you can develop a program that has a mixture of both.
Use this website as a resource to help you make your choices
To reflect on your own strengths and the work you like to do. At the senior level of study it is important that you spend time enjoying your study because you perform best when you gain personal satisfaction from your study program.
To talk with your parents. Involve them in your planning and ask them for their advice. They might suggest something to you that you hadn’t thought of before.
To talk with your teachers as they have expertise in their field and know you as a student. They might provide you with some of their perceptions about yourself and make suggestions about what subjects might best suit your personality and your abilities.
To talk with others in the field that you are interested in pursuing. Ask them how they came to have an interest in that line of work? How did they get to where they are? Who motivated them and who mentored them? You might find that many different pathways have been taken to get them where they are now.
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