Assumed knowledge for 3/4 Specialist?

[leflyi]

This is a rather late question, I know, but I have only just stumbled upon the Atar Notes website.

What topics, especially within the Essentials Advanced General Mathematics are assumed knowledge for 3/4 specialist?

- Leflyi

[Jeggz]

Co-ordinate Geometry (Circles, Ellipses etc.)
Complex Numbers
Vectors
Trig Identities

These are probably the main ones,  because you build up on these in 3/4.

[Hancock]

For those who don't have GMA at their high school, don't worry. You'll run through all of these "assumed knowledge" topics in the first couple of weeks.

[Conic]

Specific chapters/parts that would help are:
5 - In study design, but it's not that important
6 - Partial Fractions is the most important part from this
10/11 - All of this is important
12/14 - Basic knowledge of trig is important
15 - All of this is important
16 - All of this is important but the polar graphs
17 - Graphing ellipses and hyperbola, the loci properties aren't that important
19 - All of this is important
20 - All of this is important

If there is something you didn't cover I wouldn't worry about it. You can go over the toolbox chapter in the spesh book. I don't think there is anything they don't go over again.

[leflyi]

Thanks for the quick replies! Yeah our school didn't run GMA last year due to insufficient numbers. Luckily, we banded together at least 7 and combined with another school to run it... interesting since the other school only had 2...

I think i might have a quick ponder over these subjects, but it seems we have gone over many of them in class already.

Thanks again!

-Leflyi.