Choosing a Course
Courses of Study - Planning Your Course
You Need To Plan What You May Do When You Leave School
Not everyone knows what they want to do when they leave school but it is time
to start thinking about some of the options that you may wish to consider. This
may help you make your choices. However, if you maintain a broad course this should
give you many options in the future. Careers advice is available from the Careers
Department and a Careers subject choice guide follows at the end of this section.
It is important that your course at this level is broad-based
so that you have a number of different options in the future.
- Plan the course backwards from tertiary/apprenticeship level and develop a
continual focus on meeting the requirements.
- Don’t settle for ‘achieved’ – especially
if intending to go to university.
- Streaming and prerequisites for school courses are based
on the school’s internal exam results (all levels).
You will start to specialize more in Year 12 and this will be continued with
greater depth in your final year studies.
Students who do not attend the compulsory ‘check in’ prior to the
commencement of Term 1, 2004, will have their courses removed and will have to
apply again for a course once school has satisfactorily commenced. Reserved places
will not be held and may be re-allocated to other students. Students also need
to know that to be eligible for a year level they must be studying the majority
of their subjects at that level ie four out of six. Permission for exception will
need to be obtained from the Director of Curriculum.
Students have the option of studying the following general courses.
| Year 11
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Compulsory Subjects
Religious Studies
Maths
English
Science
Plus two Option Subjects (from the following list) |
| Year 12
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Compulsory Subjects
Religious Studies
English
Plus four Option Subjects (from the following list) |
| Year 13
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Compulsory Subject
Religious Studies
Plus five Option Subjects (from the following list)
(This number of option subjects to be reviewed in 2005) |
Note:
In special circumstances a student may study a combination of NCEA and CIE
courses with a maximum of one subject from the ‘minor’ qualification.
In special circumstances multi-level study is possible.
All courses of study are subject to approval by the Director of Curriculum.
Check Requirements For Tertiary Courses
It is important that you check the tertiary course subject requirements for
the course you wish to follow prior to finalizing your subject choices.
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