For the class of 2025, exams are done and results are coming in. Attention is turning to plans for next year.

With the benefit of a bit more free time and brain space, some students might be wondering if they have made the right decisions about courses. Perhaps your results have made you reconsider your preferences.

Keeping in mind the last date to change your preferences differs between states and territories and offer rounds, how do you know if you picked the right course?

I research educational psychology, with a focus on student motivation and engagement at school and in post-school life.

Here are six ways to help guide your thinking about course choice. Three of them fall under a nuts and bolts approach to decision-making and three are more big-picture considerations.

This refers to the specific, practical “thinking through” process of course selection. There are

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