Where are you up to in terms of the Specialist Maths course?

[Charismango3]

Hi Everyone, I'm just another specialist maths student wanting to know how other students in the state are going. I know it's just the beginning of term 2, but I was wondering how everyone is going in terms of the Specialist Maths Course. Where has your teacher taught up to in the course and where are you up to individually if you're going ahead of your school? Also, any comments on how you're finding the course?

[keltingmeith]

I'm not doing the course myself (being in uni and all ), but I do have a spec student. He has completed complex numbers, vectors (minus vector calc), trig and should finish differentiation this week.

I know it sounds like not a lot (only being at the beginning of term 2), but think of it like this - a lot of schools like to finish by the end of term 3 so they can do practice exams in the holidays between terms 3 and 4. So really, you're already 1/3 of the way through year 12!

[Charismango3]

I'm not doing the course myself (being in uni and all ), but I do have a spec student. He has completed complex numbers, vectors (minus vector calc), trig and should finish differentiation this week.

I know it sounds like not a lot (only being at the beginning of term 2), but think of it like this - a lot of schools like to finish by the end of term 3 so they can do practice exams in the holidays between terms 3 and 4. So really, you're already 1/3 of the way through year 12!

Thanks! Approximately how many prac exam papers do your spesh students usually complete prior to entering the examination room? Or how many do you recommend would be a substantial amount in preparation for the end-of-year-exams?

[keltingmeith]

This is definitely a question that there is no right answer to, because it's different for everyone. I would definitely say that 20 is probably a bit too much and a tad unnecessary if you're simply trying to expose yourself to different questions.

My suggestion would be to do so many that you feel comfortable and as least stressed as possible. At the end of the day, what's going to kill you in the exam isn't not knowing something - it'll be being so stressed that you forget something (and I have seen this happen, it's not pretty). So if you do, say, 3 exams, and after that, you're comfortable, that's fine. If you do 50 and then you're comfortable, that's fine, too.

[juzza12]

This is definitely a question that there is no right answer to, because it's different for everyone. I would definitely say that 20 is probably a bit too much and a tad unnecessary if you're simply trying to expose yourself to different questions.

My suggestion would be to do so many that you feel comfortable and as least stressed as possible. At the end of the day, what's going to kill you in the exam isn't not knowing something - it'll be being so stressed that you forget something (and I have seen this happen, it's not pretty). So if you do, say, 3 exams, and after that, you're comfortable, that's fine. If you do 50 and then you're comfortable, that's fine, too.

I agree, however a little stress is important too in my opinion! By the way seriously 3 exams?, surely you'd be aiming for under 25 raw... Remember it is extremely easy to overestimate your ability, just saying xoxoxox

[keltingmeith]

I did a total of three or four exams for methods, actually. Maybe 7 for specialist?

[Zealous]

Hi Everyone, I'm just another specialist maths student wanting to know how other students in the state are going. I know it's just the beginning of term 2, but I was wondering how everyone is going in terms of the Specialist Maths Course. Where has your teacher taught up to in the course and where are you up to individually if you're going ahead of your school? Also, any comments on how you're finding the course?

Hi,
My teacher is currently teaching my class calculus (finishing off differentiation this week). We've completed Complex Numbers, Graphs and Relations and all the Algebra stuff. I think my teacher is going at a good speed for the students in my class.

I've personally gone ahead of my class... and I may have finished the entire course... haha 
(I just really enjoy working through different maths questions, whether easy or challenging, so I found the textbook quite fun to do...)

[Charismango3]

Hi,
My teacher is currently teaching my class calculus (finishing off differentiation this week). We've completed Complex Numbers, Graphs and Relations and all the Algebra stuff. I think my teacher is going at a good speed for the students in my class.

I've personally gone ahead of my class... and I may have finished the entire course... haha 
(I just really enjoy working through different maths questions, whether easy or challenging, so I found the textbook quite fun to do...)

Hi, that sounds about where our school's up to. We've completed circular functions, vectors, most of graphs and relations, complex numbers and we started differentiation and rational functions last week. Looks like we're roughly on the same page, which is good

[juzza12]

I did a total of three or four exams for methods, actually. Maybe 7 for specialist?

Fuaaaaaaaaa thanks for sharing your experience!