Specialist vs Methods

[Henreezy]

I don't know if there's a topic on this but,
it seems like everyone in my class (myself included) are enjoying specialist more than methods and finding it more engaging and easy as opposed to methods. The general consensus is that methods is more difficult or uninteresting.. how do you all feel about it?

I guess being engaged, switched on and focused is what makes it easier and simultaneously more enjoyable, but I don't see why methods feels harder than spesh..

[Professor Polonsky]

I think difficulty is very subjective, and Spesh builds on many Methods topics. But as for Spesh being more enjoyable, completely agreed. And I think you'd find that is indeed the overall consensus amongst Spesh students.

[Stick]

Since Further just ingrained perfection (in terms of minimising errors) in me, I actually enjoy Methods a lot more since it's easier than Specialist to achieve it. I'm not used to that sort of uncomfortable feeling I get with Specialist due to the long, involved and often messy working out just yet.

[Conic]

Specialist is more interesting, Methods is more simple imo.

[deleted]

I enjoy specialist WAY more, and I probably do twice as much work for spesh than I do for methods.

Yet, I went better on my first SAC in methods than in specialist.

[silverpixeli]

I much prefer specialist. Maybe it's the challenge, maybe it's the topics we cover. I find complex numbers and vectors SO much more interesting than matrix transformations or even probability, for example.

[pi]

Spesh is more fun and intellectually stimulating, Methods is easier to get a higher score.

[zvezda]

agreed. I find myself so distracted doing methods because its just the same stuff all the time

[Thu Thu Train]

Methods is all about 'doing' maths while Specialist is more about 'understanding' maths?

[lzxnl]

I personally found Methods to be a bore no matter how many times I did it. As everyone else has mentioned, Specialist Maths actually gets us thinking. Methods is just regurgitating what we learnt from the textbook with different numbers.

I think difficulty is very subjective, and Spesh builds on many Methods topics. But as for Spesh being more enjoyable, completely agreed. And I think you'd find that is indeed the overall consensus amongst Spesh students.

The irony is that although it is the overall consensus at my school too, Methods students choose not to take Specialist Maths because they think it's too hard. The students that do...enjoy it.

[BigAl]

Those who dont like the transformation matrices and stuff..you're gonna have a bad time at uni I remember I left the transformation question entirely blank in the second exam. One more thing..I enjoyed spesh way more than methods but ended up with two exactly same scores