Which School Centre?!?

[rife168]

I am looking to do UMEP maths next year but I am unsure which 2 possible school centres to choose.

I live in Geelong so the centre will need to be close to a train station and also only one night a week. It also can't be on a wednesday as i will have double spesh periods 5&6 which can't be moved.

I have narrowed down the choices to:

Bialik College - East Hawthorn
Camberwell Grammar School - Canterbury
Cheltenham Secondary College - Cheltenham
Loreto Mandeville Hall - Toorak - Wednesday after school hours (times will be arranged to suit students) 
Overnewton Anglican Community College - Keilor
Westbourne Grammar School - Werribee


Would werribee be the wisest choice? or are any of the others within walking distance of a train station??
help me!

[abeybaby]

scotch

[rife168]

Well if you can suggest a way that i can get from my school to Scotch in an hour using only public transport (bus from school to train station, train to melb, tram to Scotch) then i'm all for it!

[abeybaby]

glen waverly train, get off at kooyong, 200m walk. or belgrave/lilydale tain, get off at glenferrie and its a 3 minute tram ride!

[abeybaby]

yeah but if you were gonna go to bialik/loretto, scotch is very close to them anyway...

[Planck's constant]

St Kevin's College is very accessible, in fact it virtually has its own private train station.
The teacher at that school is very experienced and a damn good bloke.

Now, while I am at it, and without knowing what each individual's reasons for doing UMEP Maths is, I can offer the follwoing general advice for ambitious students who want to do well in the subject.

1. It aint easy. The maths is a few notches more advanced than Specialist Mathematics

2. No matter how good your teacher is, this is not the sort of subject that your teacher can fully teach you in the small number of available contact hours. 90% of your learning will be self-directed. I know of one student who never attended a single lesson, and yet got full marks at the end-of-year exam.

3. UMEP maths is essentially a course in Linear Algebra (Matrices, Vector Spaces), and I strongly recommend you get your hands on the Anton & Rorres textbook to get the required insight into these topics. Some other bits and pieces are covered as well such as Number Theory, Mathematical proof (esp Induction), Complex Numbers (exponential form) and some multivariate calculus. For those latter topics you can just about get by with the UMEP notes only (which the University provides).

4. Do ALL the problems in the book, including The Past Exams and Typical Exam  problems.

To cut a long story short, the course is not starightforward, but if you do it seriously, it is rewarding. You can just about start calling yourself a mathematician  

[Phy124]

I live in Cheltenham and went to Cheltenham Secondary College and I would think it would take you quite a long time to get there from Geelong, especially via public transport.

You would have to get the train to Flinders street station, then train to Cheltenham station, then bus to Southland shopping centre, then bus to the school - minimum 2 hours, more than likely 2 and a half

Westbourne Grammar School seems like your best choice by far, it is only 200m from Werribee station

[funkyducky]

Split for going way off-topic.