So the ideal modules are?

[crayolé]

Oh aha thanks for the nice long explanation ;]

I see where you're coming from now, yeah those are the kind of questions that I fear most on further exams.

Is it sort of like those questions that ask "What would be the best graph to represent this data"? Where theres really no way you can be 100% sure you're correct?

I heard Geo and Trig were easy except for the scaling factor? Would those be easy for methods students?

[nex]

If you're good at maths, which most people here seem to be as they are doing methods, then you will be okay with geo and trig.  it is just that this module probably requires the greatest mathematical ability of them all, but as you have a calculator it should be okay as long as you can interpret questions correctly (things such as bearings, recognising what the question is asking and what formula to use etc.)  geo and trig will be okay.

networks is a horrible module for the following reasons:
-it isn't really even maths
-you are basically shooting yourself in the foot by doing networks, as you have a calculator at your disposal, and it is the only module where you can't really use the calculator, as it is mostly just counting distances.
-there is no mathematical way to be 100% sure you have the correct answer, and you are relying entirely on your eyes ability to find shortest distance and critical pathways.
-crashing can get ridiculous, and can create new critical pathways.  everytime you reduce an activity time on a pathway you have to check to see if a new critical pathway has been formed.
-there are shitty questions along the lines of 'would it be beneficial for the company to spend x dollars to shorten this project?'  we had a massive argument in class over it because some thought it was beneficial, because the company can move on to the next project quicker, whilst others believed that as it costed more it was not beneficial for the project to be crashed. this was an ex vcaa exam question btw...
-dominance, hungarian algorithms and reachability are just annoying, and involve finding all the different ways to get from one node to another.
-basically, it is just trial and error bullshit that is really ambiguous and will frustrate the shit out of you.

anyone who can score full marks on the networks module in the exams, i take my hat off to you.

I guess it depends on the individual, but i loved networks. I found it the easiest module all round, and ended up getting full marks on both exams for networks.

[stonecold]

^well done, i could have never done that
networks is mainly for people who really love diagrams and are good with maps.

also, there is no scaling factor.  you can do whatever modules you like on the exams, it doesn't effect the end result, which is why it is best to choose you strongest areas!

[henn65]

yer agree about networks...i got it all correct on the exam last year but its a crap module. you gotta remember though that further is basically a joke of a subject anyway...it requires so little maths. All you need to do well in further is common sense and a calculator, except perhaps trig but i didn't do that.
matrices is far and away the easiest because it is so strict what they can actually ask in regards to it...you can basically pick what the questions for it will be on the end of year exam.
number patterns are great. The only difficulty is interpreting whether they have given you a point T1 or T0, start or end of year etc..

[Blakhitman]

Thinking of swapping geo and trig for matrices.

Then I'll be doing: no. patterns, business maths, and matrices.

MY ideal modules

[stonecold]

Thinking of swapping geo and trig for matrices.

Then I'll be doing: no. patterns, business maths, and matrices.

MY ideal modules

sounds good hitman. 

i'll respond to your pm in detail tomorrow.

[crayolé]

Had a look at Networks module today and I cant even begin to understand any of it. Maybe its just cos I skimmed over it but it was by far the most complicated one on first impression.

Business maths seems really easy, only two chapters on it and its just interest/depreciation etc. Would be the fucking easiest thing if you did accounting.

I'm going to take stonecolds advice and drop networks unless it gets easier once the teacher explains it.

My new lineup will be
Matrices
Business Maths
Graphs and Relations

[Albeno69]

Had a look at Networks module today and I cant even begin to understand any of it. Maybe its just cos I skimmed over it but it was by far the most complicated one on first impression.

Business maths seems really easy, only two chapters on it and its just interest/depreciation etc. Would be the fucking easiest thing if you did accounting.

I'm going to take stonecolds advice and drop networks unless it gets easier once the teacher explains it.

My new lineup will be
Matrices
Business Maths
Graphs and Relations

yea business maths is by far the easiest you dont even need to do the chapter if you do accounting and business. well thats what i have seen from exams i have looked at and been told by past students

[crayolé]

yea business maths is by far the easiest you dont even need to do the chapter if you do accounting and business. well thats what i have seen from exams i have looked at and been told by past students

Haha, lucky for you then
You do Further + Accounting + Business

You could probably do it with your eyes closed by the end of the year

[Albeno69]

yea business maths is by far the easiest you dont even need to do the chapter if you do accounting and business. well thats what i have seen from exams i have looked at and been told by past students

Haha, lucky for you then
You do Further + Accounting + Business

You could probably do it with your eyes closed by the end of the year

yea im happy prob not even gonna do an exercise just prac exams. but ill do some notes of formulas

[TyErd]

I've decided to do:
Matrices (instead of trig)
Number Patterns
and Business Maths

methods will defintely help matrices and accounting will help business maths 

Hey stonecold can you please explain to me about the formulas that are not in the book for Number Patterns.
Thnx

[physics]

we have no choice

[stonecold]

I wrote it in here TyErd
http://vcenotes.com/forum/index.php/topic,19085.msg192328.html#msg192328

and yes you do anna, the school can't prevent you from doing whatever modules you like on the exam!

[physics]

I wrote it in here TyErd
http://vcenotes.com/forum/index.php/topic,19085.msg192328.html#msg192328

and yes you do anna, the school can't prevent you from doing whatever modules you like on the exam!

well they put u in a class and u follow them..my school is very strcit

[m@tty]

You have to do the SAC's on the modules the school chooses, but if you are having trouble with one of them you can learn another one yourself and do that one in the exam.