Should I do the the Uni Maths Enhancement Program?

[man0005]

Hey guys,

Just wandering if any of you had any advice on whether or not I should do the Enhancement Program? Is the ATAR increment worth the extra time that I need to put in? Would it help for spesh?
I only got a 37 in methods last year (year 11) ...so I'm not really sure if I'm cut out for it.
Any help would be appreciated.

[Predator]

Have you spoken to your co-ordinators about it or your methods teacher from last year?
If they think you can do it and you have the self belief in yourself then you may aswell give it a shot, you only live once and one day you might ponder and say "What have Uni Maths been like?"
If that is a 37 RAW in methods that is far from a bad score and quite good actually.

[Greatness]

Definitely worth it imo. If you get a 4.0 increment it means that you pretty much got a 40 study score in a VCE subject.
37 is still a good score. If my school let me do a uni subject i would....

[Romperait]

I'm not. =D

[fuzzylogic]

Is this the Melb Uni course?  If so, it doesn't really help with Spesh...So I guess, only take it if you're sure that you can achieve 5 or 5.5 in it, or else, you're better off doing another normal VCE subject where you think you can do really well.

[man0005]

Nah this is Monash, course should be around the same.
oh so íf I'm doing 6 subjects, would it just replace the lowest one?

[tram]

1) defs do it

2) From what i've heard the monash course is not ridiculously hard

3) While not directeley helping with spech, i think it does indirecteley help spech, It makes you think more mathmatically analytically which of course helps spech and make spech look easier. Defs worth it IMO

4) yes, the increment would jsut replace your lowest subject

5) fuzzy, if you're were to do another subject, you would need to do get 40+ to make it worth it (i'm sure man0005 is not going to fail) in which case the 10% bit id not going to help too much, even assuming man0005 get's a 40+ socre, doing uni maths WILL help spech whihc should be a top 4 score helping him even more

[Greatness]

Well it pretty much replaces any score that it's higher than. E.g. 5.5 would replace any score. However if you score above 40 in your bottom two subjects and get 4.0 increment for uni maths then it's likely uni maths won't contribute to your atar - depending on scaling of those subjects.

[tram]

check your pm's btw swarley

[NJTuition]

Definately do Monash (not Melbourne) enhancement maths.

I did it last year. It requires almost no effort.
Throughout the year we did no work at all, apart from assignments (which you can work on together as a class).

For the exam, all you need to do is create a notebook with a worked example of every type of question.
In the exam you can bring in as many notes and books as you want. So when ever you see a question, you just refer to your notes and use the example as a template for solving this. You can just refer to the monash notes if you want, but they are the most         un-user friendly notes that i have ever seen. Its better to copy examples your teacher uses if you do it in your school.

Secondly you MUST get past exams, and do at least 1 one of them, (preferably the most recent.) either find solutions to it, or compare with other n then correct it. Bring those past exams into the exam. They reuse SO MUCH of the previous material in the current exam its unbelievable. 40% of the 2010 semester 1 exam, was a word for word, number for number copy as the 2009 exam 1.

It DOES help directly with spec. the vectors you do are much more complex than the spec vectors (don't stress there still not hard), and then the vectors in spec just seem like a joke. You also learn many shortcuts and tricks that you can apply in spec, and if you happen to find such a question, you could solve a 4-mark, in a few lines.

THe biggest bludge subject,  so it allows you to spend much more time on other subjectts, while still getting a great mark.
as i said i did no work throughout the entire year, apart from completing assigments.
i only spent 1, maybe 2 days b4 each exam, preparing. all i did was complete about 2-3 exams, n chek answers. that is all the revising u need to do.

to get a 5.5 u need an 80% average. everyone in enhancement get s above 80% easy, as far as i no, at least in my school.
Most of the class got above 95%, for both exams.
I got 100% for the 1st, 99% for the 2nd semester. I was the awarded the Monash Prize for the highest achiever for that subject (beating both uni n enhancement students).

Do uni (monash) maths if u can.

Cheers,
Nikhil.

[m@tty]

Not everyone gets over 80, Nikhil. I know people who got 5.0 and even the 4.0 increment.

Everything he said about the exams and notes is true, which makes for quite an easy subject.

Definitely do it.

Personally, I somewhat wish I did Melbourne enhancement maths rather than Monash even though I did quite well in it because of the assessment style and content. Don't write UMEP off simply because it the harder of the two.

[vea]

Definately do Monash (not Melbourne) enhancement maths.

I did it last year. It requires almost no effort.
Throughout the year we did no work at all, apart from assignments (which you can work on together as a class).

For the exam, all you need to do is create a notebook with a worked example of every type of question.
In the exam you can bring in as many notes and books as you want. So when ever you see a question, you just refer to your notes and use the example as a template for solving this. You can just refer to the monash notes if you want, but they are the most         un-user friendly notes that i have ever seen. Its better to copy examples your teacher uses if you do it in your school.

Secondly you MUST get past exams, and do at least 1 one of them, (preferably the most recent.) either find solutions to it, or compare with other n then correct it. Bring those past exams into the exam. They reuse SO MUCH of the previous material in the current exam its unbelievable. 40% of the 2010 semester 1 exam, was a word for word, number for number copy as the 2009 exam 1.

It DOES help directly with spec. the vectors you do are much more complex than the spec vectors (don't stress there still not hard), and then the vectors in spec just seem like a joke. You also learn many shortcuts and tricks that you can apply in spec, and if you happen to find such a question, you could solve a 4-mark, in a few lines.

THe biggest bludge subject,  so it allows you to spend much more time on other subjectts, while still getting a great mark.
as i said i did no work throughout the entire year, apart from completing assigments.
i only spent 1, maybe 2 days b4 each exam, preparing. all i did was complete about 2-3 exams, n chek answers. that is all the revising u need to do.

to get a 5.5 u need an 80% average. everyone in enhancement get s above 80% easy, as far as i no, at least in my school.
Most of the class got above 95%, for both exams.
I got 100% for the 1st, 99% for the 2nd semester. I was the awarded the Monash Prize for the highest achiever for that subject (beating both uni n enhancement students).

Do uni (monash) maths if u can.

Cheers,
Nikhil.

+1 For motivation.

[mankay]

Another benefit, if you dont have the time, you can literally study the week before and get a pass/4.0 ATAR increment.

[CharlieW]

do monash, if u get over 80% ull get 5.5

at melbourne if u get over 80% it deson't mean ull get 5.5, its top 20%. e.g me i got 84% first class honours, and i got 5.0, lucky it didn't make a difference