Fun time for me next year! NO Spec 1/2 :D

[cara.mel]

My school doesn't offer any variant of a 'spec 1/2' @ all.

Same here
I umm made sure I could do everything in the toolbox chapter (except for the last few about elipses/hyperbola/parametric equations), did the complex number homework, flipped through the rest and saw the last chapter is uber easy, probably looked at trig too because that was what we started with
Yay for essential having a monopoly on the maths subjects

[Fyrefly]

Lol, you worked so much harder than me though cara.mel
This time last year, all I did was Ch.1 for hol hw, bcoz that's all we were told to do

[kido_1]

At my school it is simply General Maths: Specialist.
GMS we used to call it.

[fredrick]

i haven't covered GMA in yr 11, is it worth it if i flicked through the book and did some of the exercises before i start spec in yr 12?

[Mao]

i haven't covered GMA in yr 11, is it worth it if i flicked through the book and did some of the exercises before i start spec in yr 12?

nah, no point wasting time on that, u might as well just get started on the spec book
its pretty much self explanatory, just spend some time and effort at it u should be fine
so long as u have methods 1/2, u're pretty much fine
if u have done physics 1/2 and actually listened in class unlike me, then u'll be flying!
but do flick through the entire spec book b4 the new year, and try to cover a fair bit before u start

[humph]

Hmm, yeah, I guess it's going a bit overboard, but I personally think it'll help me save time during the year. It's more of a reassuring task for me. I don't know about AppleXY though, he loves his maths .

i love my maths too, but spec is pretty boring, for the most part. uni maths is where all the fun stuff begins

that being said, if you haven't done gen maths: specialist 1/2 in yr11, then i can definitely see the benefit of starting some spec study over the holidays, because there is a fair bit to cover. if you have done gen 1/2, however, i doubt it'll save you time, as it's not like you don't have enough time to learn the whole course in class during the year!

[/0]

General Maths is so much more fun than Methods 1/2... I've flipped through the book and it covers everything in Methods plus much more, such as statistics, regression, diophantine equations, proof, vectors and statics, and of course complex numbers! It's almost overwhelming!

[humph]

General Maths is so much more fun than Methods 1/2... I've flipped through the book and it covers everything in Methods plus much more, such as statistics, regression, diophantine equations, proof, vectors and statics, and of course complex numbers! It's almost overwhelming!

awesome! someone going for PhB

i don't remember doing some of that content in gen maths or spec, lolz

[kido_1]

So far I have done: Vectors, Complex Numbers, Conics and Graphs, Trig,Anti-diff, Integration and Differential Equations.

I am yet to do Kinematics, Statics and Dynamics, ):

[bebobebo]

my school offers it so i did it. the teacher was a joke and no one took it seriously. people who got mid to high forties in methods were getting 50-60 % on relatively easy exams just because the subject was so bad. they merged the further course with the specialist course so the first semester had sequences and series, matrices etc and the second semester had complex numbers and vectors.

[AppleXY]

So far I have done: Vectors, Complex Numbers, Conics and Graphs, Trig,Anti-diff, Integration and Differential Equations.

I am yet to do Kinematics, Statics and Dynamics, ):

In spec?! Already, boy thats fast. Gotta speed up then! (however, I do have knowledge about implicit diff and integration by subtitution.

[Mao]

So far I have done: Vectors, Complex Numbers, Conics and Graphs, Trig,Anti-diff, Integration and Differential Equations.

I am yet to do Kinematics, Statics and Dynamics, ):

In spec?! Already, boy thats fast. Gotta speed up then! (however, I do have knowledge about implicit diff and integration by subtitution.

lol i am so lazy, only done the toolbox...
and i used to know implicit diff and integration by substitution and by parts and blah blah blah... just gotta find my notes and remember again....

[/0]

Do you just look over the topics or do you do lots of exercises from them?

So far I have done: Vectors, Complex Numbers, Conics and Graphs, Trig,Anti-diff, Integration and Differential Equations.

I am yet to do Kinematics, Statics and Dynamics, ):

In spec?! Already, boy thats fast. Gotta speed up then! (however, I do have knowledge about implicit diff and integration by subtitution.

Do you just look over the topics or do you do lots of exercises from them? I just realised how annoying it would be to do the exact same exercises when the school year starts.

[fredrick]

i've only just started the toolbox, i get so lazy when its the holidays. When the school year starts thats when all my laziness goes an i begin to do the work and actually enjoy it!