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VCE Stuff => VCE Mathematics => VCE Mathematics/Science/Technology => VCE Subjects + Help => VCE Mathematical Methods CAS => Topic started by: sbeccia on February 14, 2019, 09:32:29 am
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Hey everyone!
I need to write as summary book for methods, and I find that when I do I never use it anyway... But just to be safe, how did you all write your 3/4 summaries? Did you put explanations and questions you had trouble with or just questions? I really don't know where to start
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I personally took two different exercise books into class and wrote all my theory notes in one and did questions in another, binding my theory notes at the end of the year.
This, however, isn’t the only way to do it. I’ve seen people write cheat sheets (usually after a chapter or topic) and a log of questions they got wrong, binding that to make their bound reference. I’ve seen others that only have topics they’re not good at in their bound reference. I’ve also seen people who focus on their skills and bring the textbook and their exercise book duct taped together at the last moment.
You should start by doing whatever is most helpful for you.
Side note: I dug this article up and thought it might be useful too.
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I'm pretty skeptical about including past questions + solutions in your summary book. This will just make your summary harder to navigate, and what questions would you even include? If it's a challenging question that you did in the past, or couldn't do in the past, you should instead just make sure during revision time that you fully understand it and can do it again in the future without help. You don't want something super thick and unwieldy sitting on your table during the exam.
When I did methods, I just brought the textbook into my exam because I knew that I wasn't going to use it anyways. I didn't even really keep notes
throughout the year because that's just not how I learn maths. Instead of working on a summary, I spent all of my time doing as many practice exams as possible. I think this helped me far more than a summary would have.
But this is incredibly personal, so I'm not recommending you to not write anything up unless you also feel like writing notes doesn't help.