GMA VS SPESH and SPESH VS UEM (difficulty wise)

[VCE_2012]

Can someone give me a numerical image of how much:
Spesh is harder than GMA on a scale of 1 to 100
 AND
UEM is harder than Spesh (or otherwise) on a scale of 1 to 100

[paulsterio]

It's hard to give a numerical scale because "hardness" is a very subjective concept

Like I know some people who find specialist maths easier than further maths because its more maths and less words, less interpretation

But specialist maths is probably 1.5x as hard as GMA is, because it brings in a lot of new concepts, unlike how methods 3/4 is basically methods 1/2 with extra bits

[VCE_2012]

Wow, I never knew (or could believe) that some people may find specialist easier than further. I mean I've heard of Methods being easier than Specialist but never that...

[Lasercookie]

Wow, I never knew (or could believe) that some people may find specialist easier than further.

Further covers pretty different topics compared to specialist. Pretty sure further has a lot of statistics and other stuff. I saw the first further sac they do at my school - it was massive, they had to do some kind of data analysis stuff. I think they had used like 10 to 15 pages of an exercise book and had a lot of writing just for a maths sac.

[paulsterio]

Wow, I never knew (or could believe) that some people may find specialist easier than further. I mean I've heard of Methods being easier than Specialist but never that...

You're right in that basically everyone who does the three maths combo find specialist maths more involved than further, ie. it requires more work
But the thing is further is a lot more tedious, wordier, longer, dodgier - the easier coursework doesnt come for free, and for some people, the intricacies of further will make it harder for them

and laseredd is right, further has a lot of statistics - if you hate statistics, or find it hard, you're gonna hate further

(like me) hahah!

[Hutchoo]

Further maths  = /wrist.

[funkyducky]

Honestly, spesh isn't a huge step up from gma, although others might not agree. my school kind of sneaked some basic spesh stuff into our gma course, so none of the topics were brand new (only vector calculus, which we haven't done yet).
Also, uni maths is very different to spesh, it's less application, mostly pure maths. In terms of difficulty, I'd say that the two subjects are incomparable because they're so different, nothing on a high school syllabus dares to go near the conceptual content of "real" maths, which is strangely basic, but complex at the same time. however, the questions in uni maths are easier than spesh, because they just make them simple. It's hard to explain, but I find unimaths easier of the two.