How much of Specialist 3/4 is included in Methods 3/4 ?

[Zlatan]

Hey everyone,

so I'm currently in year 11 and I'm doing both Methods 1/2  and Spesh 1/2. Based on what my year 12 friends are telling me, 60% of Spesh 3/4 is covered in Methods 3/4. Is this accurate ??

[keltingmeith]

None of specialist is covered in methods, really. Everything they can/will assess you on is in specialist - there is nothing you learn in methods that they will directly assess you on in your specialist exam. However, there is a lot of things you learn in methods that you need to know to be able to do in specialist (mainly differentiation stuff).

Think of it like learning how to add and subtract in primary school. In order to add and subtract, you need to know how to count. However, when you do problems so that your teacher can see that you can add/subtract, your teachers aren't assessing you on if you can count, they're assessing you on your basic arithmetic.

However, the reverse sort of holds - due to the pace that specialist is generally taught at, you'll find that your teacher has to teach you methods things so that you can do the specialist things, even though they're seperate. So, you might find that ~40% or maybe some more of methods is in specialist, just because you don't have time to wait for your methods knowledge to catch up to your specialist knowledge.

[Zlatan]

However, the reverse sort of holds - due to the pace that specialist is generally taught at, you'll find that your teacher has to teach you methods things so that you can do the specialist things, even though they're seperate. So, you might find that ~40% or maybe some more of methods is in specialist, just because you don't have time to wait for your methods knowledge to catch up to your specialist knowledge.

so you're saying spesh includes ~40% of methods but at a faster pace ? 

[keltingmeith]

so you're saying spesh includes ~40% of methods but at a faster pace ? 

Yeah, sort of. Biggest example I can think is circular functions. When it comes to these thinks, you'll look at some new circular functions. Issue is, you'll arrive at this waaaaay before you do it in methods (when I did it, specialist circular stuff was in unit 3, but methods circular stuff was unit 4). As such, your teacher might have to quickly go over circular functions again with you so that you can do the stuff you need to be able to do in specialist. However, I can guarantee that you won't get anything on these simpler circular functions stuff in specialist, but will definitely see it in methods.

Otherwise, though, a lot of the two are different - there are only two areas of study out of the FIVE in specialist that have any crossover with methods, and that's calculus and functions/graphs.

Hope all of that made sense. n.n;