Why the fuck do people pick Chemistry over Physics for their HSC subjects, despite Chem being useless?? (1 Viewer)

[coolcat6778]

Someone please enlighten me on the fact that of the people who do engineering, a large proportion only did Chemistry. Clearly Chemistry is fucking useless in University as I, and many others, do not have to touch Chemistry (organic and stupid reaction pathway bullshit gibberish bs) ever again (except the unemployable Chemical and Bio engineers (obviously))

1. No university in Australia or elsewhere require high school chemistry as a prerequisite or recommendation for admission for engineering related programs, but the ones that do, have a prerequisite only require physics and math.

2. Chemistry is a fucking awful rote learning subject that just consists of writing nonsense and garbage pattern recognition gibberish.

 

[f7eeting]

Someone please enlighten me on the fact that of the people who do engineering, a large proportion only did Chemistry. Clearly Chemistry is fucking useless in University as I, and many others, do not have to touch Chemistry (organic and stupid reaction pathway bullshit gibberish bs) ever again (except the unemployable Chemical and Bio engineers (obviously))

1. No university in Australia or elsewhere require high school chemistry as a prerequisite or recommendation for admission for engineering related programs, but the ones that do, have a prerequisite only require physics and math.

2. Chemistry is a fucking awful rote learning subject that just consists of writing nonsense and garbage pattern recognition gibberish.

i chose chemistry over physics because i wanted to do medicine before

if i had known i was going to go into engineering i definitely would've chosen physics instead. i really regret it

 

[coolcat6778]

All the retards in my school pick retarded chemistry for no reason lol, nobody is doing medicine (obviously). it's still popular

 

[WeiWeiMan]

i chose chemistry over physics because i wanted to do medicine before

if i had known i was going to go into engineering i definitely would've chosen physics instead. i really regret it

4u surely more useful than physics for engineering

 

[carrotsss]

it’s pretty interesting

 

[Average Boreduser]

4u surely more useful than physics for engineering

id assume the way u need to think in engineering is more physics oriented rather than 4u

 

[coolcat6778]

id assume the way u need to think in engineering is more physics oriented rather than 4u

hsc 4u probably a better predictor of success than hsc physics. even then, hsc physics is more useful than hsc chemistry for engineering.

 

[jane1820]

so they can ragebait you

 

[cheesynooby]

mix funny liquid go boom

 

[coolcat6778]

mix funny liquid go boom

Mixing a pedophile's semen wasn't fun at all. It was just tedious af

 

[cheesynooby]

u have to mix it harder

 

[jane1820]

u have to mix it harder

This is peak
I lowkey cried

 

[clay293]

Bc they’re delulu and think they’ll get into med

 

[melanie_o]

Someone please enlighten me on the fact that of the people who do engineering, a large proportion only did Chemistry. Clearly Chemistry is fucking useless in University as I, and many others, do not have to touch Chemistry (organic and stupid reaction pathway bullshit gibberish bs) ever again (except the unemployable Chemical and Bio engineers (obviously))

1. No university in Australia or elsewhere require high school chemistry as a prerequisite or recommendation for admission for engineering related programs, but the ones that do, have a prerequisite only require physics and math.

2. Chemistry is a fucking awful rote learning subject that just consists of writing nonsense and garbage pattern recognition gibberish.

I can't speak for engineering since I'm pre-med but I would say:
1. Scaling (controversial but I know people who chose it for that reason)
2. Filling up a unit/class
3. Just enjoying the subject (me)

 

[WeiWeiMan]

I can't speak for engineering since I'm pre-med but I would say:
1. Scaling (controversial but I know people who chose it for that reason)
2. Filling up a unit/class
3. Just enjoying the subject (me)

chem only scales marginally better than phys tbh

Someone please enlighten me on the fact that of the people who do engineering, a large proportion only did Chemistry. Clearly Chemistry is fucking useless in University as I, and many others, do not have to touch Chemistry (organic and stupid reaction pathway bullshit gibberish bs) ever again (except the unemployable Chemical and Bio engineers (obviously))

1. No university in Australia or elsewhere require high school chemistry as a prerequisite or recommendation for admission for engineering related programs, but the ones that do, have a prerequisite only require physics and math.

2. Chemistry is a fucking awful rote learning subject that just consists of writing nonsense and garbage pattern recognition gibberish.

should've mentioned earlier but hsc phys is also very rote heavy is it not?

 

[BionicMango]

Little late, but I did chem because I had the option to do it one year early at my high school (unlike physics or 4u) and because up to then I had enjoyed the subject enough.
I thought med programs listed chem and maths adv (along with either bio or physics) as prerquisites for medical science as well? And of course chemistry and chemical engineering students would probably benefit from it.

Chemistry does have a lot of rote learning but then physics isn't much better, I would argue that hsc physics has more due to having to remember more of the experiments and history and everything. It's interesting stuff that I'm glad I learnt, however it should not be a big focus in exams. At least in chemistry the history/experiments are actually more closely related to chemistry knowledge itself (idk if that makes sense, like in physics the historical experiments sometimes felt a bit out of the way).

Those are just my thoughts though. Since I did maths and chemistry early, I kind of got an indirect head start for physics which I definitely need for my engineering degree. So I don't regret it! And I did alright =]