Hi Jake,
I couldn't find a general Math Extension 2 forum, so I hope it's fine to post more general questions about the course here.
I was wondering if you could give me some tips on how to study for Extension 2 in the lead up to trials. Are Past Papers the best thing to be focusing on? Or is there something else that I should be focusing on like specifically just the harder areas of the course?
Hey Mark,
Definitely post any questions you want here! Specific, course related stuff, or general, study related stuff.
I would just be doing past papers, as many as you can get your hands on. Do them over and over, the tough stuff and the stuff you're comfortable with. If you find yourself really failing to understand a specific section, definitely go ahead and try to learn it again, but generally just do past papers.
In Ext 2, I also wrote a list of stupid mistakes I often made, or things that I needed to make sure to remember to do. I would have a list of questions I couldn't figure out, and felt that I should, and every day go through them again until I was totally confident with them. Basically, as I was doing past papers, I identified weaknesses and tried as best I could to fix them.
At the end of the day, past papers are your best friend. Don't focus on the harder areas specifically, because there are the same number of marks allocated to the whole course. Spending 10 hours on harder three unit might get you an additional one mark, but spending 10 hours on complex numbers might give you full marks in that section. Just do past papers, over and over.
Also, post questions that you have here! Get your class into the forums, so you can all help each other out, and learn through teaching (would seriously recommend this).
Catch you around the forums
Jake