Spesh Maths in 2011

[sajib_mostofa]

"Oh shit. FML!!! I'm going to run out of time. WTF WHY DOESN'T CALCULATOR WORK =.= omgggg I screweeed up so bad" stuff like that lol

story of my life. wish i had done what you did before the exam, because I choked.
but at least i can learn from this and apply it in methods.

It's time that we avenge the raping that we got from spesh.

[98.40_for_sure]

I predict a similar scenario with methods... you can't beat the system.

[JinXi]

Story of my life, wish I bothered opening my textbook and studying earlier, not with 2 weeks to go =/  Cramming does help though =D

Coming from someone who enjoys 1st then suffers, do it the other way round and you'll be rewarded   

Bleh too late to change anything now  :buck2:

[abeybaby]

Theres nothing hard in spesh. Make sure you have no loopholes in your knowledge - its not about how much work you do, its about who understands the fundamental concepts the best. If you get that down, its a breeze.

[3Xamz]

Theres nothing hard in spesh. Make sure you have no loopholes in your knowledge - its not about how much work you do, its about who understands the fundamental concepts the best. If you get that down, its a breeze.

But that's true for everything from kindergarten games to PhD maths
There's no secret about it, Specialist is harder than Methods.

[abeybaby]

oh of course spesh is harder conceptually than methods, but its still the same - dont freak, just know the stuff!

[Martoman]

For my brain I found methods harder

[Mao]

For my brain I found methods harder

ditto

[itolduso]

why is methods harder, is it because it has probability distributions or what?

[sajib_mostofa]

Personally I found methods much easier cos I don't have to deal with all this conceptual crap.

[JinXi]

why is methods harder, is it because it has probability distributions or what?

More memorizing.

[Martoman]

No my brain works with conceptual airy fairy stuff.

[kyzoo]

For my brain I found methods harder

ditto

Same

I didn't do 1/2 Methods, so 3/4 Methods was completely new to me 0.o I never ever encountered function notation before. All this stuff about inverse functions and domains and ranges hurt my head =/ Same with differentiation and antidifferentiation X.x Never ever seen that stuff before and had to face it first time for a 3/4.

Spesh however, is just an upgrade of Methods. There was nothing new in Spesh except for some vector and complex number stuff, the rest was just a natural extension of the Methods stuff I learned the year before Spesh.

[Andiio]

I'm planning to finish both the Methods and Spesh course in the holidays.. everyone says to just do practice exams from then on but is that really the right way to go? I mean, I'd obviously listen in class and steadily build my notes/bound reference from each class, but mmm :S

Also, did you guys just copy the notes from every class in a book and then used that as your bound reference?

[Martoman]

In maths classes I never take notes and I encourage others to not do so as well. Listen and follow what the teacher is saying, only if something is notable just write down something in the margin and thats it. Its much better this way and you'll find remembering things much easier as well.