![]() ![]() Thoughts? Hopefully this made it clearer. Wikipedia said that mathematics is a more important prerequisite for physics, while Britannica said that physics itself is essentially an experimental science so one should study the experimental sciences branch. I plan to study physics in university because I'm really interested in the subject and I want my future job to be based on physics, so I tried looking on the internet for an answer to my question Which is the better branch to study for physics? I searched through encyclopedias, and the two most popular ones gave contradicting results. In other words, experimental sciences branch make a balance between these three subjects (math, physics, biology/geology), and mathematics branch sacrifices so much biology/geology for more focus on math. While the physics subject is left untouched in both of these branches. In experimental sciences, math is given less importance in favor of biology/geology, and vice versa for the mathematics branch. However, there's a difference when it comes to math and biology/geology. I'm not sure if the physics courses are exactly the same for these two different branches, but it appears that both of these branches indeed give physics the same importance in terms of study hours, score multiplier and exam length. The reason why the sum of the multipliers is high because even though these branches are specialized, we still have other secondary subjects like computer science, philosophy, etc. All these differences are caused by the fact that biology/geology is sacrificed in mathematics branch for 2 more hours of math that were traded for 2.5 hours of biology/geology, as well as a slightly higher multiplier for the math subject because in the mathematics branch, math's multiplier became x4 instead of x3 in exchange for biology/geology's multiplier getting lowered to x1.5 from x4. ![]() There's also a slight difference in the total sum of the multipliers, the mathematics branch has a sum of x21.5, while the experimental sciences branch has a sum of x23. Math exam is 2 hours, physics exam is 2 hours, biology/geology exam is 2 hours.īoth of these branches have nearly the same total school hours a week, the mathematics branch has 36 hours while the experimental science branch has 36.5 hours. The most important subjects are biology/geology and physics (both have x4 multiplier), followed by mathematics with a x3 multiplier. Math exam is 3 hours, physics exam is 2 hours, biology/geology exam is 1.5 hours.Įxperimental science branch - You study mathematics and physics the most (both 5 hours a week), followed by biology/geology (4 hours a week) then languages. Biology/geology in this branch have a multiplier of x1.5. The most important subjects are mathematics and physics, both have a multiplier of x4. Biology/geology have only 1.5 hours a week. Mathematics branch: - You study mathematics the most (7 hours a week), followed by physics (5 hours a week), then after that there are a few languages. The following details are just an approximation of old numbers from ~2020/2021, since I don't know the new hours and multipliers of 2023: So, we alternate between biology and geology in each lesson. These two branches are similar but they differ in the importance of subjects, please note that biology and geology are combined into one class. Then we divide the total score by the sum of all multipliers, which gives subjects with higher multipliers a bigger effect on the academic grade, making them more important. In our country, we calculate the academic grade by multiplying the score of each subject based on the importance of that subject. Both of these branches consider physics a very important primary subject with a x4 grade multiplier (the highest multiplier one subject could have). I'd need to make a choice between either mathematics or experimental sciences. For those two years (starting from next school year), I have to pick a branch to focus on and study. I'm a 17 year old high school student, I have 2 more years in high school until I take my baccalaureate exam. I decided to write it again with more detail to explain what's really going on and to have a proper discussion with everyone, because the last post was vague and I'm very sorry for that. This is a rewrite of a previous post that I wrote in a hurry before going out. ![]()
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