Is it a good decision to take grade 11 biology honors?

Should I take grade 11 physics?

• I'm taking biology and chemistry next year, but I took history instead of phyics. I really hated grade 10 physics and I thought it was hard compared to biology and chemistry. However, in grade nine, I found it pretty easy. I'm afraid to take it, because if it's anything like grade ten I'll fail for sure. Is physics that important? Can I take the grade 11 course in grade 12? Is it really hard compared to grade 10?

• Answer:

  I may be biased in this opinion, but I believe that physics, along with math and statistics, is better training of your mind than other subjects. Also, from my experience, physics is objectively harder than other subjects. And although people don't like to admit it, they somehow know when evaluating your skills. What I'm saying is that a decent grade in physics can be worth more than a good grade in another subject. What is more, your knowledge from physics might make you better at other tasks later, because you learn how to approach problems analytically. School marks will end up in the bin in a few years. And then you'll either have knowledge you can actually use or a dump of data that makes you no more than a walking book. Don't choose the easiest path, choose the more useful one. On your questions about grades and courses, I don't know what country you are from. But the school system I had (previous Bavarian) doesn't exist anymore, so I couldn't tell either way. But for all I know, physics is pretty international, it'll be largely the same in one place or another.