The most challenging aspect of Specialist

[VCE_2012]

Hey veteran "Specialist-ers" which topic or subtopic in specialist has posed the most challenge?
By challenge I refer to a topic that baffled you during the exams or a topic that demands more time to understand.
And for those who found specialist an absolute breeze, I say to them "step back...."

[pi]

Vector Proofs.

Do not understand them at all.

[fuzzylogic]

trig functions.    could not for the life of me figure out those silly transformations.  D:

[pi]

trig functions.    could not for the life of me figure out those silly transformations.  D:

And still got a 50 :O

[paulsterio]

hahahah complex numbers, they can come up with really creative questions, i lost 2 marks on a complex number question which i could do as i was walking out of the room, god dammit

then there's Input/Output, Concentration/Mixing, those type problems. Another 2 marks lost

Hmph.

[fuzzylogic]

hahahah complex numbers, they can come up with really creative questions, i lost 2 marks on a complex number question which i could do as i was walking out of the room, god dammit

then there's Input/Output, Concentration/Mixing, those type problems. Another 2 marks lost

Hmph.

differential equations also D:

[VCE_2012]

Okay, change of pace. Whats the easiest topic?

[b^3]

Complex Numbers and vector proofs, probably because I hadn't come across anything like that before. It wasn't just harder material, but new concepts and new basics that I had to grasp.

EDIT: In response to the hardest topic.

Easiest topic I would have to say was calculus since we've come across that before, it was just a little bit of a level up from previous things.

[acinod]

If you learn from Dr. He and Dr. G, complex numbers is the hardest.

It also use to be the hardest topic but VCAA made it easier these few years.

To this day I still don't understand some vector proofs and didn't bother to attempt to understand it before the exam but thank god the really hard ones weren't on it.

Statics can be quite hard if you don't do physics since specialist kind of over complicates it a bit.

Graph sketching is pretty retarded some times.

Personally complex numbers is most challenging for me.

[kwheattt]

inflow/outflow are the hardest

and the calculus becomes quite easy if you do heaps of practice questions

[dc302]

Vector proofs hardly appears on the exams though right? They can be tricky but even so, they usually only give really simple questions about this. Aside from this, I'd say worded problems in general always seem out to trick you!

[dc302]

If you learn from Dr. He and Dr. G, complex numbers is the hardest.

It also use to be the hardest topic but VCAA made it easier these few years.

To this day I still don't understand some vector proofs and didn't bother to attempt to understand it before the exam but thank god the really hard ones weren't on it.

Statics can be quite hard if you don't do physics since specialist kind of over complicates it a bit.

Graph sketching is pretty retarded some times.

Personally complex numbers is most challenging for me.

Spesh overcomplicates statics? Are you sure it's not just that physics oversimplifies statics?

[pi]

Okay, change of pace. Whats the easiest topic?

Euler's method

[acinod]

Okay, change of pace. Whats the easiest topic?

Euler's method

LOL just need to learn one CAS line and you're done.
Though I find that most the stuff you also do in Methods a bit isn't too hard to understand.

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[b^3]

Okay, change of pace. Whats the easiest topic?

Euler's method

LOL just need to learn one CAS line and you're done.
Though I find that most the stuff you also do in Methods a bit isn't too hard to understand.

I used a program for spesh euler to speed up questions where they ask for say y4 or y5. Remember playing around with it and going up to y1500 one time. But yeh I still knew the one line equation for the tech-free part.

EDIT: I can up it in the resource thread if everyone thinks its a good idea.

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