Best 4u textbooks by topic

[QC]

So there are a lot of 4u textbooks out there...
Right now I have access to:
Terry Lee 4u
Coroneos 4u
Grammar Notes 4u (basically a 4u book that was written by the guy who made the 3u cambridge books)
Fitzpatrick 4u
Patel 4u
Cambridge 4u
KA Dan
Each of the topics, each book seams to have individual strengths and weaknesses. For example, in Complex Numbers, I have heard that Patel and the Grammar notes are really good but Fitzpatrick gives good notes at the end. My question is, which textbooks are better/worse at teaching theory and having better exam style questions in each topic? Or, is it just better to try and do a mix from each book so I can do as many questions as possible. Hope that makes sense/someone hasn't already asked it. Thanks

[RuiAce]

Note: I haven't seen ALL the textbooks listed. Only heard of nearly all of them.

As a rule of thumb, Terry Lee's textbook is aimed at students from selective schools. That'll give you an idea of what to expect out of it.

If you're targeting teaching theory and having better exam style questions specifically:

Teaching theory: Fitzpatrick ain't half bad, but it's hard to follow every now and then. Cambridge is exhausting to follow due to the lack of formatting, but the questions do pose reasonable difficulty and can get things in your head. Grammar Notes are really good, but it's a textbook that's really hard to get your hands on.

Exam style questions:
You can't get better in the conics topic than Patel I reckon. Doing about 60 or so conics questions out of there (I think they have somewhere between 100-150 conics questions) was what made me decently good at conics during the year.

If you think about it, 3U cambridge has the best exam style questions for THAT course. So it's not really much surprising that Grammar Notes would probably be your best protocol for 4U exam-style questions in textbooks. Reminder that you can't get better than past papers though.

(Only thing I really know about Coroneos is that it has 100 integrals. And because I had a massive headache that day, it took me 10 hours to get through them. + LOADS of distractions. Sorry, felt like inserting a fail brag.)

[QC]

Note: I haven't seen ALL the textbooks below.

As a rule of thumb, Terry Lee's textbook is aimed at students from selective schools. That'll give you an idea of what to expect it it.

If you're targeting teaching theory and having better exam style questions specifically:

Teaching theory: Fitzpatrick ain't half bad, but it's hard to follow every now and then. Cambridge is exhausting to follow due to the lack of formatting, but the questions do pose reasonable difficulty and can get things in your head. Grammar Notes are really good, but it's a textbook that's really hard to get your hands on.

Exam style questions:
You can't get better in the conics topic than Patel I reckon. Doing about 60 or so conics questions out of there (I think they have somewhere between 100-150 conics questions) was what made me decently good at conics during the year.

If you think about it, 3U cambridge has the best exam style questions for THAT course. So it's not really much surprising that Grammar Notes would probably be your best protocol for 4U exam-style questions in textbooks. Reminder that you can't get better than past papers though.

(Only thing I really know about Coroneos is that it has 100 integrals. And because I had a massive headache that day, it took me 10 hours to get through them. + LOADS of distractions. Sorry, felt like inserting a fail brag.)

Haha thanks, yeah I'm definitely going to be using the Grammar notes since my school uses them and they are as you said REALLY good, trying to get my hands on a terry lee cos the ones online are shoddy quality. Thanks, for the tip about using Patel for conics, will keep that in mind. What do u mean by Coroneos having 100 integrals?

[RuiAce]

Haha thanks, yeah I'm definitely going to be using the Grammar notes since my school uses them and they are as you said REALLY good, trying to get my hands on a terry lee cos the ones online are shoddy quality. Thanks, for the tip about using Patel for conics, will keep that in mind. What do u mean by Coroneos having 100 integrals?

One Hundred Integrals

[QC]

Oh god, luckily, I don't even have enough knowledge to do it yet . I'm assuming it will require a variety of 4u techniques like by parts etc.

[QC]

Is there anything else like this where there is basically just a list of a lot of the main types of problems that can appear in 4u.

[RuiAce]

Is there anything else like this where there is basically just a list of a lot of the main types of problems that can appear in 4u.

Not as far as I know

[beau77bro]

This is awesome. Btw I found terry Lee for complex to be absolutely amazing although incredibly time consuming. That and grammar notes is pretty much why I did well in my first assessment.(for complex) oh and Fitzpatrick has really good locust questions.

[Wales]

I'm currently working out of Terry Lee for Polynormials and absolutely love the worked solutions. More often then not some questions will stump me, having the full *worked* solutions really does help my understanding of it. Haven't looked at the rest of the textbook but I assume it's similar?

[beau77bro]

Yea it's pretty much the best textbook for complex numbers and it's good for conics aswell, there's a good explanation for loops and fishes in curve sketching. Those are the only topics I've done but yea terry Lee is really good to do. That and Sydney grammar notes

[hanaacdr]

So there are a lot of 4u textbooks out there...
Right now I have access to:
Terry Lee 4u
Coroneos 4u
Grammar Notes 4u (basically a 4u book that was written by the guy who made the 3u cambridge books)
Fitzpatrick 4u
Patel 4u
Cambridge 4u
KA Dan
Each of the topics, each book seams to have individual strengths and weaknesses. For example, in Complex Numbers, I have heard that Patel and the Grammar notes are really good but Fitzpatrick gives good notes at the end. My question is, which textbooks are better/worse at teaching theory and having better exam style questions in each topic? Or, is it just better to try and do a mix from each book so I can do as many questions as possible. Hope that makes sense/someone hasn't already asked it. Thanks

Hi,
would i be able to get access to the Grammar notes and Terry Lee books
by any chance,
much appreciated
thank you

[frog1944]

Is the Grammar textbook good? Where do you get it from?

[RuiAce]

Is the Grammar textbook good? Where do you get it from?

The textbook is amazing but it isn't freely available. From what I've been told, you have to buy it through your school.

[frog1944]

What makes it better than the other textbooks?

[RuiAce]

What makes it better than the other textbooks?

Think about the 2U and 3U Cambridge textbooks. It follows that format - In depth explanations and questions that are closest at reflecting the scope of the exam.

It was written by the same authors that wrote the 2U and 3U Cambridge textbooks.