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Title: Difficulty of Unit 3/4 if 1/2 were not done properly..
Post by: aiming_95 on October 07, 2011, 01:28:20 am
Self explanatory

How hard will I find unit 3/4 since I have pretty much 'bludged' all of unit 1/2 ?
Title: Re: Difficulty of Unit 3/4 if 1/2 were not done properly..
Post by: Truck on October 07, 2011, 01:32:12 am
How hard are you willing to work for your 3/4? And what subject?
Title: Re: Difficulty of Unit 3/4 if 1/2 were not done properly..
Post by: aiming_95 on October 07, 2011, 01:54:34 am
Methods.
Title: Re: Difficulty of Unit 3/4 if 1/2 were not done properly..
Post by: Truck on October 07, 2011, 02:18:25 am
Do some work in the summer holidays + work hard throughout the year and you'll be fine.
Title: Re: Difficulty of Unit 3/4 if 1/2 were not done properly..
Post by: Ravit on October 07, 2011, 11:26:49 am
get serious over the summer holidays and maybe even start now on topics you
think you are not strong at and keep it up until you think you are happy with where you are :D
Title: Re: Difficulty of Unit 3/4 if 1/2 were not done properly..
Post by: aiming_95 on October 07, 2011, 12:27:20 pm
Thanks a lot for the advice  :) :)
Title: Re: Difficulty of Unit 3/4 if 1/2 were not done properly..
Post by: adRo93 on October 07, 2011, 01:48:31 pm
You will be fine, as long as you do the work, and ask for help if required.
I did nothing in Unit 1+2 either, but i'm doing quite well with unit 3+4
Title: Re: Difficulty of Unit 3/4 if 1/2 were not done properly..
Post by: aiming_95 on October 08, 2011, 12:53:37 pm
I can honestly say I have no clue about anything in unit 1/2 of Methods.

Only some Probability.
Title: Re: Difficulty of Unit 3/4 if 1/2 were not done properly..
Post by: paulsterio on October 08, 2011, 09:05:44 pm
It depends on how bad your 1/2 is, honestly, they're pretty related, so you'll have to be solid in 1/2 methods, you don't have to be aceing it, but you would have to know what everything is on about, and you will need to have basic skills such as graph sketching (exponentials, logs, circular fns, polynomials) as well as solving equations, finding derivatives and antiderivatives...etc
Title: Re: Difficulty of Unit 3/4 if 1/2 were not done properly..
Post by: nemolala on October 08, 2011, 09:37:12 pm
lol well funny story ok after a year of doing no maths at all, i decide to take up methods in yr 12. what a complete joke I can't believe I actually done it. I was able to understand like the first two chapters  so if I can do that with like zero background knowledge, I'm sure you can pull things through.
Title: Re: Difficulty of Unit 3/4 if 1/2 were not done properly..
Post by: haddzy on October 08, 2011, 09:40:49 pm
with effort you will surely do well,
Title: Re: Difficulty of Unit 3/4 if 1/2 were not done properly..
Post by: Tomanomanous on October 10, 2011, 05:02:09 pm
Hard work goes a long way, so if you are willing to work hard over the next few months on Methods 1/2 content, you should be find for 3/4. I started Methods 1/2 this year not being able to use the quadratic formula properly x.x Ikr? But with hard work, I am now working on Methods 3/4 and Specialist work to challenge me. Don't give up. Methods 1/2 has some pretty unique content, so you just got to look at the information from different perspectives at times. Good luck.
Title: Re: Difficulty of Unit 3/4 if 1/2 were not done properly..
Post by: djoy on October 20, 2011, 10:20:55 pm
In all honesty, I struggled in unit 3 and 4 methods. I aced units 1 and 2 yet I don't know what went wrong.
It could be the fact that our 3&4 methods teachers aren't too fantastic though... So it really takes a lot of hard work!
Title: Re: Difficulty of Unit 3/4 if 1/2 were not done properly..
Post by: Tobias Funke on October 20, 2011, 10:27:33 pm
Depends on your mathematical ability really.

if you're someone who can bludge a whole year then pull A's/A+'s after ample study in like exams or something, then it shouldn't be too hard.

On the other hand, if you aren't that good at Methods in the first place, it depends on how much work you do