Students emerged confidently from the Personal Development Health and Physical Education (PD/H/PE) exam at Canobolas Rural Technology High School on Thursday.
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The school’s PD/H/PE head teacher Mark Skein said across NSW about 16,000 students study the subject as part of their HSC each year.
At Canobolas Rural Technology High School there were about 10 or 12 students who studied the subject, which is useful for students who plan to work in physical education, physical therapy, nursing, pharmacy and sports education or coaching.
Two of the school’s students who sat the exam were Alicia Ilievski and Kirra Everette who hope to work in psychology, and criminology or law respectively.
“I kind of just chose it because I wasn’t sure what I wanted to do after school and I chose a range of subjects I was interested in, I enjoy PD/H,” Alicia said.
“It’s very full on, you miss one lesson and you miss a whole week.”
Kirra said she found the subject interesting, particularly how sports medicine relates to athletes.
Although it is not particularly useful for their future studies, both girls said they decided to study the subject because they thought it was interesting and they were happy with how the exam went.
“It was well written, nothing too unexpected, the essay question was pretty good I thought,” Alicia said.
“It was easier than the trials,” Kirra added.
Among the options they could choose during the three hour exam was improving performance in sports medicine.
Following the PD/H/PE exam, a small group of students from the school sat their engineering exam.
The students included Ben Zegzula and Ryan Noon who were relaxed an hour before the engineering exam was scheduled to start.
“[I’m not feeling] too bad, it’s one of my least stressful exams because all my other subjects are really difficult, [such as] four unit maths, physics and chemistry,” Ryan said.
Next week’s exams include mathematics subjects on Monday, ancient history, several languages, information processes and technology and textiles and design on Tuesday, biology and languages on Wednesay, business studies, history extension, metal and engineering (VET) on Thursday and studies of religion and hospitality (VET) on Friday.