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Title: I love Further!!
Post by: ausyid on April 16, 2008, 05:06:36 pm
 :smitten:

Is anyone else finding that Further plays perfectly to their mathematical strengths?

I never thought there was a subject that I am so suited to. I'm just very happy I picked it up this year after not doing GMB last year.

Does anyone else love Further? Does anyone hate it?
Title: Re: I love Further!!
Post by: ed_saifa on April 16, 2008, 05:10:50 pm
I hate it. I did general maths last year and I HATED it. In particular, networks which was super ambiguous. The only solid topic was measurement.
Title: Re: I love Further!!
Post by: AppleXY on April 16, 2008, 05:12:19 pm
lol, the only good part in Further is Financial Math, and it's pretty basic. :P Further is like dark side of math, it's boring. :P
Title: Re: I love Further!!
Post by: dcc on April 16, 2008, 05:20:16 pm
for the record AppleXY wishes to learn more about financial Math while doing COMMERCE on his MACINTOSH at the UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE.
Title: Re: I love Further!!
Post by: clinton_09 on April 16, 2008, 05:26:56 pm
i really like this subject i thinks it suits my mathematical strengths aswell. It's not too challenging which suits me wonderfully
Title: Re: I love Further!!
Post by: midas_touch on April 16, 2008, 05:28:04 pm
Further Maths is completely distinct from methods and specialist in that 'hardcore' topics such as algebra and calculus are more or less omitted. You don't have to necessarily be a maths person in order to ace further.

for the record AppleXY wishes to learn more about financial Math while doing COMMERCE on his MACINTOSH at the UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE.

That will be the ultimate orgasmic experience for him :P.
Title: Re: I love Further!!
Post by: beezy4eva on April 16, 2008, 06:11:47 pm
<3 the bludginess compared to methods and spec, its the perfect 3/4 to do in yr 11
Title: Re: I love Further!!
Post by: clinton_09 on April 16, 2008, 06:14:50 pm
<3 the bludginess compared to methods and spec, its the perfect 3/4 to do in yr 11

Yeh true that, i thought bout that today if i had the chance again i would do further in year 11 rather than legal studies
Title: Re: I love Further!!
Post by: costargh on April 16, 2008, 06:20:20 pm
Our SAC that we are doing at the moment is F**KED!!!

This subject is so bloody easy but we are dealing with 3 bloody geographical regions and C02 emissions and GNI (Gross National Income) and because I use TI 89 I was unable to graph my residuals and sketch them so I've lost like 9 marks (something is wrong with my calculator, it says undefined even though the column is called "resid").

I don't really care. This stupid SAC can go r**t itself.
It doesn't help that we are working with 72 numbers that are to two decimal places and then another 36 numbers that are to 4 decimal places. This whole SAC is F**Ked i tell you.
Title: Re: I love Further!!
Post by: clinton_09 on April 16, 2008, 06:26:38 pm
yeh im doing a similar sac now, but now its not too bad just ridiculously time consuming like writing 2 -3 pages of conclusions from the tests u have carried out. I seriously wonder how it relates to maths at all. Oh well only 3 more periods to go yay
Title: Re: I love Further!!
Post by: droodles on April 16, 2008, 06:42:55 pm
writing is the stupidest part of it
Title: Re: I love Further!!
Post by: costargh on April 16, 2008, 07:01:10 pm
SUPER SAIYAN!!! =)
Title: Re: I love Further!!
Post by: Odette on April 16, 2008, 10:17:53 pm
what a waste of a thread... further is not fun lol... its just a bludge subject :)
Title: Re: I love Further!!
Post by: clinton_09 on April 17, 2008, 09:31:52 am
thats nice odette soooooo does anyone know around how important this sac is in terms of %. I was thinking around 50% of unit 3, coz its a big boy
Title: Re: I love Further!!
Post by: RD on April 17, 2008, 12:59:36 pm
its just a bludge subject :)
gotta love it!
Title: Re: I love Further!!
Post by: Odette on April 17, 2008, 02:51:50 pm
thats nice odette soooooo does anyone know around how important this sac is in terms of %. I was thinking around 50% of unit 3, coz its a big boy

Lol i'm not 100% sure on this but i think its 40% of your total sac mark, then its about 20% for each module you do :) ...btw further maths isnt divided into unit 3 and unit 4... =P
Title: Re: I love Further!!
Post by: clinton_09 on April 17, 2008, 03:57:09 pm
isn't it divided, i didn't know that, that sounds bout right 40% for sac mark and the rest 20%. Wow it certainly is an important sac then
Title: Re: I love Further!!
Post by: costargh on April 17, 2008, 04:00:36 pm
Not really... because your exams count for like 66% of your mark don't they? And your exam mark moderates your SACS...
Title: Re: I love Further!!
Post by: Nick on April 17, 2008, 04:19:15 pm
thats nice odette soooooo does anyone know around how important this sac is in terms of %. I was thinking around 50% of unit 3, coz its a big boy

Lol i'm not 100% sure on this but i think its 40% of your total sac mark, then its about 20% for each module you do :) ...btw further maths isnt divided into unit 3 and unit 4... =P

Yeah, it's definitely worth 40% of the SAC allocation.
Title: Re: I love Further!!
Post by: jsimmo on April 17, 2008, 04:28:54 pm
Nick: to get 34, what marks did you roughly get on your SACS?
Title: Re: I love Further!!
Post by: clinton_09 on April 17, 2008, 04:30:24 pm
wow i really didnt think that. thats massive, hope i do aswell as i think i will
Title: Re: I love Further!!
Post by: Nick on April 17, 2008, 05:32:10 pm
Nick: to get 34, what marks did you roughly get on your SACS?

My marks went like this:

GA 1: A
GA 2: B
GA 3: B+

Not too bad for someone who basically did nothing in Further all year.
Title: Re: I love Further!!
Post by: Odette on April 17, 2008, 09:18:28 pm
Not really... because your exams count for like 66% of your mark don't they? And your exam mark moderates your SACS...
Yeah exam marks do moderate your sacs, but i was saying that the core sac was worth 40% and 20% for each module sac of your total SAC mark
Title: Re: I love Further!!
Post by: costargh on April 17, 2008, 09:38:12 pm
Not really... because your exams count for like 66% of your mark don't they? And your exam mark moderates your SACS...
Yeah exam marks do moderate your sacs, but i was saying that the core sac was worth 40% and 20% for each module sac of your total SAC mark
Yeh I know but I was saying in the whole scheme of things it is not the be all and end all. =)
Title: Re: I love Further!!
Post by: Mao on April 17, 2008, 09:40:48 pm
Not really... because your exams count for like 66% of your mark don't they? And your exam mark moderates your SACS...
Yeah exam marks do moderate your sacs, but i was saying that the core sac was worth 40% and 20% for each module sac of your total SAC mark
Yeh I know but I was saying in the whole scheme of things it is not the be all and end all. =)
no
but you do want to have (and maintain) a good ranking.
Title: Re: I love Further!!
Post by: costargh on April 17, 2008, 09:50:16 pm
Not really... because your exams count for like 66% of your mark don't they? And your exam mark moderates your SACS...
Yeah exam marks do moderate your sacs, but i was saying that the core sac was worth 40% and 20% for each module sac of your total SAC mark
Yeh I know but I was saying in the whole scheme of things it is not the be all and end all. =)
no
but you do want to have (and maintain) a good ranking.
...
Yeh I know but I was saying in the whole scheme of things it is not the be all and end all. =)

Title: Re: I love Further!!
Post by: Odette on April 17, 2008, 09:57:51 pm
Not really... because your exams count for like 66% of your mark don't they? And your exam mark moderates your SACS...
Yeah exam marks do moderate your sacs, but i was saying that the core sac was worth 40% and 20% for each module sac of your total SAC mark
Yeh I know but I was saying in the whole scheme of things it is not the be all and end all. =)

True true=) hehe
Title: Re: I love Further!!
Post by: elaine on April 17, 2008, 10:08:27 pm
further is HEAVEN compared to methods
Title: Re: I love Further!!
Post by: Odette on April 18, 2008, 02:51:40 pm
further is HEAVEN compared to methods
TAKE THAT BACK NOW!
Title: Re: I love Further!!
Post by: dcc on April 18, 2008, 03:29:38 pm
specialist is heaven compared to methods.
Title: Re: I love Further!!
Post by: Odette on April 18, 2008, 03:50:41 pm
specialist is heaven compared to methods.

Is not lolz
Title: Re: I love Further!!
Post by: droodles on April 18, 2008, 04:57:22 pm
methods is heaven compared to english
Title: Re: I love Further!!
Post by: Mao on April 18, 2008, 05:49:17 pm
methods is heaven compared to english
DITTO~
specialist is more heaven than methods when comparing to english :P
Title: Re: I love Further!!
Post by: beezy4eva on April 18, 2008, 05:49:44 pm
methods is heaven compared to english
i think every subject is heaven when u compare it to english
Title: Re: I love Further!!
Post by: droodles on April 18, 2008, 06:02:03 pm
french is heaven compared to VCE
Title: Re: I love Further!!
Post by: dcc on April 18, 2008, 06:40:03 pm
droodles is heaven when compared to the french. (stinky buggers)
Title: Re: I love Further!!
Post by: Nick on April 18, 2008, 08:15:56 pm
methods is heaven compared to english
i think every subject is heaven when u compare it to english

hahaha... now that is harsh.
Title: Re: I love Further!!
Post by: droodles on April 18, 2008, 08:23:09 pm
stop dogging english nick is gonna leave