This belongs in the student area of the forum.
After the third year, my teacher let me drop the scales since I knew them. I didn't start learning them until the second year. I think 15 minutes of scales is way too boring, especially if you are playing them perfectly.
I played one Edna May Berman, or later Czerny, exercise at a time, until I had mastered it. A couple of repetitions a day was usually good enough to dispose of an exercise between one weekly lesson and the next. Sometimes I had missed the point of the exercise and had to repeat it another week. I don't have an opinion of Hanon; I never knew anybody that used them. They don't stock them in music stores here. Only EMB.
You need to do something to warm up or stretch out your muscles at the beginning of practice. Scales aren't it IMHO, but arpeggios in both hand might be. A few turns of a scale might be useful to flex that tendon, but not every scale is necessary to do that.
I use Scott Joplin rags to warm up, but I am years ahead of you. They are not boring at all.
A good teacher would assign you performance pieces that stretch your skills just enough, without being beyond you. My teacher would never consider anything popular, which was a shame and inhibited my understanding of chord structure to composition. I think a popular piece or two at a time is good, both for chord sensibility and sight reading. If you learn to sing them at the same time, it stretches your mind to include a third track.