Been stressed out about this to the point I had to do extensive research before I meet this dude from my ethnic country

@Blackcloud fingers crossed your mum's 'ok' really means 'ok' this time!! my mum's like that sometimes too, makes it hard to trust her.

ooo that's so exciting that you've officially applied!! how's your art course going btw? so are you still going to be continuing the art one while doing psych?

@rav3n yeah, its really frustrating knowing that our mothers are like that ughh!! 😒

so far, I've done my essay and submitted it yesterday which I'm very proud of since it's due next monday.

and for the drawing unit, well...at the moment, not so great. since I still can't seem to be able to do the drawing tasks for this current portfolio assignment. I find those ones to be very difficult to do/complete especially cause for me they seem more complicated than the drawings on the previous portfolio assignment. i'm not gonna spend many hours trying to add certain details onto the drawings that meet the specific criteria/requirements lol my brain doesn't work or function like that, not even with what I've just been through recently lol. its too much. i'm seriously thinking of emailing the lecturer about my concerns about these as i really really really dont think i'd be able to do them, hence 'completing' or passing this assignment due to that lol

i'm expected to complete both those units by june this year.

@PengTing and fun fact, I've just got accepted into the bachelor of psychological sciences today, so that's very exciting!! 😄 I can't wait to start doing it this July!!

by the way @rav3n after you did your bachelor of psychology degree, did you get into honours or any other postgraduate degree afterwards? just curious if you dont mind hehe 🙂

@Blackcloud Yeah sadly progressing means getting decent grades. Getting into honours on your first go is very possible for most people still because there's usually a good amount of spots open, like for example 200ish for most unis. For post grad there's usually between 10-50 spots available depending on what you apply for. Getting into postgrad is the real challenge. You can reapply for postgrad and honour year after year if needed. I wouldn't be too stressed about it right now, you can still go onto many roles after honours for jobs as your pursue postgrad if that's your goal. I don't want to hinder you from it, just wanted to make sure your knew the reality of it, because its important.

Congratulations!!!! That's so exciting. Happy to hear you got accepted. A new path awaits for you.

@PengTing ahh yes yes I get it now. That’s great to know that it can be possible to get into honours! 🙂

I have a friend who’s my age that’s currently doing her honours degree for psychology after completing the bachelors degree. She’s actually my support worker though and she’s great 🙂

@Blackcloud ayy good job on completing that assignment early!!! i imagine the drawing unit is more time consuming, i remember spending hours and days on assignments and getting so easily frustrated at my work. hopefully you can chat with your lecturer and figure something out.

omg yay!! congrats, that was such a quick response!!

happy to answer!! i did complete my honours straight after but i didn't do any postgrad studies yet, i'm planning to do masters maybe next year. both honours and masters programs are quite competitive like @PengTing mentioned. there are other options too, once you complete your bachelors you can jump into other areas if you don't wanna continue further psych studies. or if you don't wanna do honours but you like psych, there's a course called master of applied psych which is kinda like a mix of psych and marketing i think, or you can hop into master of counselling, master of social work, etc

@rav3n Those master options you’ve listed sound like great options for me to consider in years time when I get to finish doing the bachelors! Thanks a lot for that! 🙂

no worries at all! i gotta hop off now, nighttt 💙@Blackcloud

@PengTing I’ve done some research here and there within the past few days, from what I’ve found if I can’t get into honours or masters after completing the 3 year bachelor degree, then you can get into a graduate certificate/diploma in order to get into masters?

wait, but then if we can’t get into honours, is there a way we can get into masters - like do both of them work the same way in terms of entry requirements or? 😅 I saw that with honours the requirement is to get like a 5.5 or a 6.0 GPA (so, really good marks for most units you did in bachelors?) which seems like a lot

@Blackcloud Hey, yeah so there's a regular honours pathway and there's the graduate diploma of psychology. There only difference between them is the cost, the graduate diploma of psychology costs way more usually around 30is grand and regular honours is around 10ish grand. If you are an AU citizen, the regular honours is covered under HECS and you can also defer the payment for the graduate diploma of psychology.

Sadly you have to complete an honours year to be able to apply for a masters place. No way around this. If you can't get into honours, you can try again the following year.

Masters is by far the hardest to get into to because of limited places. Both require good grades, honours is pretty achievable I would say. The requirements for honours differ between some unis, as far as I know most of them are based on a WAM score, which takes into account the average mark of your 8 core psychology units you will study in the 3 years bachelor. So they only care about those 8 units, the unis that go off gpa I am not so sure on. So for example for me I have to complete 24 units to complete the bachelors, they only care about the marks for 8 of the core units from that, the other 16 I could just barely pass and would not affect my grades for getting into honours ( this may be different for unis that go off gpa). Hope that makes sense.

@PengTing yea I think I get what you mean, since my uni seems to use the results based on the GPA for postgrad.

With the bachelor of psych sciences degree I’m gonna be doing, that one consists of 5 core units + 8 major/specialist psych units + 11 electives = 24 units so I wonder how that’s gonna work out, especially for the first two.