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VCE Stuff => Victorian Education Discussion => Topic started by: Christiano on November 21, 2010, 09:56:47 am
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So have I missed out a lot for units 1&2? I'm not sure whether to go straight into learning unit 3 over these holidays or to review 1+2. How much does 3+4 build up on 1+2?
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lol it should be easy enough to pick up without prior experience if you are half decent at maths.
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lol it should be easy enough to pick up without prior experience if you are half decent at maths.
most of the stuff you learn is pretty much stock standard yr 9-10 maths depending on the modules you do.
there will be new topics that you not have covered before, but it is fairly is easy to understand.
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Just go straight to 3+4.
In fact, I don't think you even need to revise it during the holiday..
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Yes, this other thing I forgot to ask, what are modules exactly? They seem similar to how every school picks a different theme for english.
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There is the 'Core' which is compulsory.
THen you choose 3 modules out of:
1. Number patterns
2. Geometry and trig
3. Graphs and relations
4. Business maths
5. Networks
6. Matrices
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matrices is the easiest
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i didnt do units 1/2 further, and went striaght on to 3/4
the math we do is literally pre-year 10 maths, so one could have not done maths in years and just jump into it.
so dont bother with any revision, start learning the course - i'm sure you can get the entire year done in a few days.
i didnt attend classes for 2 of my modules and self-taught one in a couple of hours, and the other (matrices) didn't really need to do anything from methods.
you will be fine.
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A lot of the people at my school who did Further in year 12 didn't do Units 1 and 2, so it's definitely easy enough to pick up.
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you're doing chem and not methods? :P wow, proves that you don't needa be good at methods to be good at further! yay!
anyway, i dropped methods for further next year, and I can tell you, by looking at the past exams... you need to be pretty retarded to not understand further :) so nah, you don't need 1&2;
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you're doing chem and not methods? :P wow, proves that you don't needa be good at methods to be good at further! yay!
anyway, i dropped methods for further next year, and I can tell you, by looking at the past exams... you need to be pretty retarded to not understand further :) so nah, you don't need 1&2;
I dropped methods too, which is why I'm picking up Further 3+4. I absolutely love chemistry. The numbers actually mean something to me :)
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LOL ... *reminisces to the year 10 chem exam* ... nah, the numbers didn't mean anything to me xD
but cool, did you drop methods because you weren't good at it or? im dropping it purely because im doing an art subject + psych+legal which leaves minimal time for methods... and I know I'm gonna do shit in it even if i tried :|
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I dropped it because I slacked off at the start of the year, and by the time I actually realized you had to do work, it was already too late. I was also averaging C's to D's on my sacs/tests, I didn't have a clue of what the numbers represented and I absolutely hate not understanding things and getting below an A..
A lesson to remember I guess..I would've really liked to learn calculus. I was going to drop in my methods class to learn the calculus topic even though I had already dropped it, but I opted instead to work on legal studies during that time.
I ended up dropping unit 2 methods, so I've been in a semester without math :D
On another note, should I get any supplement books for further? Checkpoints, etc? What do you guys recommend?
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For me, I'm probably gonna get checkpoints and that's it. Own notes would be best to compile over the ear, then finish off the year by doing a ton of practice exams, aiming to make minimal mistakes! Yah, that's what I plan to do neway
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I didn't do Further 1/2 and went straight to Further 3/4 in Year 12. Still aced the SACs and all. Possible to do well.
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I didn't do Units 1/2 of Further either. I found the study required very little work and concepts were easily grasped. The only enemy here is mistakes, really. With hard work, Further will be a rewarding subject :)
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Yeh. Mandy Candy.
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What do you think you`ll get mandy?
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What do you think you`ll get mandy?
I have no idea but I'm hoping it's something I can be proud of. I did the mathematical part just fine, it's just the mistakes that killed me baaaaad.
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LOL. Apparently Further 1/2 is the massive drainerrrr. Consider yourself at an advantage not having done it, because two years of the shit would make you want to kill yourself. :P
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I'm sure none of you will struggle if you haven't done 1/2. Relax guys :)
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LOL. Apparently Further 1/2 is the massive drainerrrr. Consider yourself at an advantage not having done it, because two years of the shit would make you want to kill yourself. :P
i almost killed myself in just one module - business maths. horrible. luckily i skipped many classes so i survived :)
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LOL. Apparently Further 1/2 is the massive drainerrrr. Consider yourself at an advantage not having done it, because two years of the shit would make you want to kill yourself. :P
i almost killed myself in just one module - business maths. horrible. luckily i skipped many classes so i survived :)
. Lol! I'll be wagging further so much next year, the teacher won't even realize I wagged... Probably because she wouldn't realize I was part of the class in the first place xD did you guys get in trouble for wagging?
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I use to wag the first period a lot, just sleep in lol.
Form assembly teacher never questioned it once.
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LOL. Apparently Further 1/2 is the massive drainerrrr. Consider yourself at an advantage not having done it, because two years of the shit would make you want to kill yourself. :P
i almost killed myself in just one module - business maths. horrible. luckily i skipped many classes so i survived :)
. Lol! I'll be wagging further so much next year, the teacher won't even realize I wagged... Probably because she wouldn't realize I was part of the class in the first place xD did you guys get in trouble for wagging?
yeah i did, but i sort of was pretty much like 'deal with it' and they couldn't do anything really :\
i didnt about half of my classes, such a waste of time further is.
class 1: mean
class 2: median
class 3: mode
class 4: range
haha, its actually ridiculously slow.. maybe not that slow but quite :\
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oh dear god. a class for each ... you're kidding me. -.- *dies*