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I need to pick subjects for highers and I already take higher maths nat5 physics chemistry computing and french. And I am not sure if I should crash higher biology or not because I heard it's stressful and I want to keep my options open cos I don't know what to do yet. I am definitely taking advanced higher maths and I have to pick 4 more highers

Reply 1

Hello! As a fellow highers student, I would strongly recommend you doing the subjects you are good at and enjoy - because highers is, if not the most, stressful year in high school and crashing a subject makes life harder than it already is (because you need to first review national 5 content before moving on to highers, which is double the work). If you really wish to take higher biology, you can crash it in s6, where you have less subjects and more time to revise each of them.
Hope this helps!!

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by xiinan
Hello! As a fellow highers student, I would strongly recommend you doing the subjects you are good at and enjoy - because highers is, if not the most, stressful year in high school and crashing a subject makes life harder than it already is (because you need to first review national 5 content before moving on to highers, which is double the work). If you really wish to take higher biology, you can crash it in s6, where you have less subjects and more time to revise each of them.
Hope this helps!!


Ty this does help so I might just do NAT 5 this year

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