Dedicate equal effort/time on methods and spesh?

[soccerboi]

Past students, did u spend more time doing spesh than methods? I keep hearing that spesh covers lots of methods stuff so just spend most time studying spesh, and methods should be fine? However, I don't see much connection; only calculus and bits of graphing like adding ordinates. Current students also welcomed to share thoughts

[pi]

80% spesh, 20% methods.

Of that 20% of methods, 80% prob, 20% application questions for exam 2.

For the 80% of spesh, 100% of it is the course

[shinny]

I did 95% spesh, 5% methods. Didn't do any methods exercises really (had a mutual agreement with the teacher that it'd be fine so long as I did alright on my SACS, which I did). Similar pattern for trial exams - heaps for spesh and two for methods. Only thing I studied in methods was probability really. The mark or two I lost ended up being probability anyway. Now you'll have to add matrices on top of that as well I think.

[soccerboi]

Wow, didn't expect that much of a split
Atm, i seem to be doing 50/50

[nisha]

I spend atleast 70% of school time on Spesh , and then I do some checkpoints on the holidays for Methods. Then again, methods interests me more, so if I could I would do more work for methods.

[Starlight]

I did 95% spesh, 5% methods. Didn't do any methods exercises really (had a mutual agreement with the teacher that it'd be fine so long as I did alright on my SACS, which I did). Similar pattern for trial exams - heaps for spesh and two for methods. Only thing I studied in methods was probability really. The mark or two I lost ended up being probability anyway. Now you'll have to add matrices on top of that as well I think.

Natural ability? :O you got a near 50 in methods.

lol i'm on the opposite end of the spectrum for maths, tried doing as much as i could (practice papers, seeing teachers, tutor) and still got an average score.

[shinny]

I did 95% spesh, 5% methods. Didn't do any methods exercises really (had a mutual agreement with the teacher that it'd be fine so long as I did alright on my SACS, which I did). Similar pattern for trial exams - heaps for spesh and two for methods. Only thing I studied in methods was probability really. The mark or two I lost ended up being probability anyway. Now you'll have to add matrices on top of that as well I think.

Natural ability? :O you got a near 50 in methods.

lol i'm on the opposite end of the spectrum for maths, tried doing as much as i could (practice papers, seeing teachers, tutor) and still got an average score.

It's not really natural ability. I just spent a crap load of time on spesh, and the overlap is very significant between the two. It was even more back then when matrices wasn't around.

[soccerboi]

just curious, when did matrices get introduced into the current methods course?

[Kaushik]

2004 I think.

[Jenny_2108]

Past students, did u spend more time doing spesh than methods? I keep hearing that spesh covers lots of methods stuff so just spend most time studying spesh, and methods should be fine? However, I don't see much connection; only calculus and bits of graphing like adding ordinates. Current students also welcomed to share thoughts

I think unit 3/4 Methods is pretty the same as unit 1/2 and some of them overlap Spesh (except probability or whatever) so I dont spend lots of time for it. Mostly is Spesh because its a bit challenging though. I dont pay lots of attention for Methods and dont do homework at home and thats why my SAC scores seem going down IMO, dont ignore Methods even though its easier than Spesh.

[paulsterio]

Did all of the 3/4 methods course in my own spare time at home when I was in Year 11 - so I spent next to no time doing methods, just did checkpoints, WERMS, practice exams

Spesh, similar really - just did checkpoints, WERMS, practice exams

Essentially Methods and Spesh accounted for around 30% of my VCE total time.

Funnily enough, the two subjects I spent most time in (English and Chem) - ended up being my two worst subjects - gotta love life

[Jenny_2108]

Did all of the 3/4 methods course in my own spare time at home when I was in Year 11 - so I spent next to no time doing methods, just did checkpoints, WERMS, practice exams

OMG! Why are you so hard-working? :OOO
I havent touched Methods textbook since holiday started although I'm year 12 ==!

[soccerboi]

Did all of the 3/4 methods course in my own spare time at home when I was in Year 11 - so I spent next to no time doing methods, just did checkpoints, WERMS, practice exams

Spesh, similar really - just did checkpoints, WERMS, practice exams

1 word: WOW  :O

[pi]

Did all of the 3/4 methods course in my own spare time at home when I was in Year 11 - so I spent next to no time doing methods, just did checkpoints, WERMS, practice exams

OMG! Why are you so hard-working? :OOO
I havent touched Methods textbook since holiday started although I'm year 12 ==!

Not to make you nervous or anything, but he did so much more work than you have so far and you'd still like a higher SS than him looking at your sig





(haha, jks, no pressure, sorry, dw you've got this!!!)

[soccerboi]

Slightly of topic, but did u guys invest equal amounts of effort and time on exam 1 and exam2? or was one favoured more than the other? cause i was thinking that since exam 2s contribute more to our SS, i might spend more of my time practising exam 2 styled questions.