Advice for future Mathematical Methods students?

[Jenny_2108]

learn to use your calculator proficiently and quickly, then you can blast through multiple choice and most questions, which will be good for time management during exam 2

see b^3's CAS tips

[BigAl]

Throw your textbook into the rubbish bin ( just joking)
Learn the concepts through solving different types of questions. After a while you will realise they are asking the same question every time. 20 short response and 1 extended response on daily basis should be ok. ( This is not difficult. Just imagine I used to solve 100 multiple choice type questions each day in Turkey) So you are lucky. And most importantly, REGULAR STUDY, REGULAR STUDY, REGULAR STUDY! I studied maths throughout the holiday and left the rest of the year for English. It doesn't work that way because I struggled when I came from a long recession of maths. Yeah, I'm exceptional because English is my second language and I had to spend much more time on it. But you have no excuses at all! Start studying now if your aiming 40+

[FlorianK]

1. Get the Black TI-nspire
2. Ace it

[Azerel]

Wow, thanks for all the posts so far guys!
This is quite insightful on Methods, looks like it's going to one of the most difficult subjects for the coming year  haha
 

[nisha]

Only hard if you make it so.

[Shenz0r]

The content in Methods is not so difficult to understand, but the application of it that makes the subject more hard.

Oh and focus on cutting down on your careless mistakes throughout the year.

[Azerel]

I guess from most of the posts that I've read, Methods has quite a lot to do with re-consolidating the material that you learn.
Thanks for everything guys!

[Planck's constant]

I never once looked in my bound reference.
Not in the VCAA exam, not in the practice exam, not while I was doing trial exams.

[nisha]

I never once looked in my bound reference.
Not in the VCAA exam, not in the practice exam, not while I was doing trial exams.

Good for you. I used my bound reference to consolidate my knowledge and knew there were worked answers that for questions that came up regularly in exams (and I understood them completely, but didn't memorise them). Therefore, in the exam, I used both my references for Methods and Spesh for those specific questions.

 In the end, the interpretation of application questions should be emphasised, as they are the easiest to loose marks on.

[Stick]

I never once looked in my bound reference.
Not in the VCAA exam, not in the practice exam, not while I was doing trial exams.

Great help mate. Not only have you not contributed to the discussion in any helpful way, you're making the rest of us feel like crap. I hope you're happy.

[pi]

Hang on guys, I don't think he was saying anything that you guys should feel bad by. He was just giving his own example of how he used his bound ref.

Sure, it's not particularly helpful, but I don't see why or how you should be feeling down by that.

Chin-up

[Stick]

I don't know what to think anymore. As someone who valued their bound reference a lot, it irritates me when people say things like this. Anyway, back on topic.

I'd suggest keeping a bound reference from the very first lesson.

[Planck's constant]

Hang on guys, I don't think he was saying anything that you guys should feel bad by. He was just giving his own example of how he used his bound ref.

Sure, it's not particularly helpful, but I don't see why or how you should be feeling down by that.

Chin-up

Exactly.
By the time I put the bound reference together, I found that I had no further use for it.
I took it with me in the exam, of course ...
But I was so busy doing the exam, I forgot all about the bound reference

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[Planck's constant]

I don't know what to think anymore. As someone who valued their bound reference a lot, it irritates me when people say things like this. Anyway, back on topic.

I'd suggest keeping a bound reference from the very first lesson.

I also suggest keeping a bound reference.
Its good for learning.
But ....  by the time you complete the bound reference ... you have learned so much that the bound reference becomes redundant.
Nothing wrong with that.

[REBORN]

I don't know what to think anymore. As someone who valued their bound reference a lot, it irritates me when people say things like this. Anyway, back on topic.

I'd suggest keeping a bound reference from the very first lesson.

Further differs to Methods. We use it for Further because it's actually helpful (espec business math formulae) but for Methods, it should rarely help: all questions are brand-new on the day!