Best Books For Subjects

[kido_1]

I just wanted to ask, what in your opinion(s) are the best books for these subjects:

Specialist Maths

Accounting

Chemistry

Thanks

[kingmar]

Accounting? Neville Box's (whatever the name is)

Chemistry no-one knows due to new study design. But mine is Chemistry Two and its pretty decent.

[AppleXY]

Essential for Spesh.
Cambridge for Acc

Lol.

However, I think Neville Box's book is pretty neat.

[costargh]

Oh whats the best book for economics 3/4?

Theres only 2 books according to my 1/2 eco teacher.
We're using Economics downunder (new edition for 08')
but i didnt like this years textbook. the layout is awful

[pillmatic]

Chemistry Dimensions.
-Really good esp the layout. It has exam style questions at the end of each chapter as well as normal ones. Very colorful.Also done according to the new study design.

Economics Downunder
I had that one too. Pretty boring to look at lol. Soo bland, however the concepts are explained really well IMO.

[joshuamorgan]

What are people's opinions for textbooks for Math Methods, Further Math, and Physics? How about English? What textbooks/study packs are people using for that?

[brendan]

Oh whats the best book for economics 3/4?

Theres only 2 books according to my 1/2 eco teacher.
We're using Economics downunder (new edition for 08')
but i didnt like this years textbook. the layout is awful

Greg Mankiw's Principles of Economics is a good introductory economics text.

[Daniel15]

Essential for Spesh.

My school used that book... It was quite good

[AppleXY]

Oh whats the best book for economics 3/4?

Theres only 2 books according to my 1/2 eco teacher.
We're using Economics downunder (new edition for 08')
but i didnt like this years textbook. the layout is awful

Greg Mankiw's Principles of Economics is a good introductory economics text.

LOL, i read that. Brendan, its uni eco nearly 1/2 - 3/4 of it is not in the VCE study design for yr12 LOOL.

Instead, I'd suggest Economic Activity 2.

[brendan]

it is well written

[asa.hoshi]

Quest Specialist Maths to get you going. Great textbook to use over the summer holidays. then after finishing with that textbook you should move on to something more difficult like Essentials.

x2 textbook for maths subjects is recommended at our school. but i don't see the point. practicing exam-style questions is more worthwhile imo. Some textbooks don't offer that aspect of questions. The downside to essential specialist maths is that their analysis questions are not a multi-stage solutions of increasing complexity but the question is in a whole paragraph form which makes it very difficult to comprehend. I guess thats the case for most text books.

If you have to choose between Quest and Essential, it really depends what your school uses, and your level of mathematics. If you are aiming 40+ ss raw, then I think Quest is not suitable for you.

Never did accounting so I dunno. but i heard A+ accounting is shit.

Chemistry. I used heinmann. my personal preference for textbooks is that they need to be colorful and nice to read. because you don't want to read a textbook which is black/white and have no pictures. and especially in chemistry, you have to read a decent amount. you would want to occasionally look at pics/graphs for further explanations, rather than paragraphs.

[Collin Li]

Quest Specialist Maths to get you going. Great textbook to use over the summer holidays. then after finishing with that textbook you should move on to something more difficult like Essentials.

x2 textbook for maths subjects is recommended at our school. but i don't see the point. practicing exam-style questions is more worthwhile imo. Some textbooks don't offer that aspect of questions. The downside to essential specialist maths is that their analysis questions are not a multi-stage solutions of increasing complexity but the question is in a whole paragraph form which makes it very difficult to comprehend. I guess thats the case for most text books.

If you have to choose between Quest and Essential, it really depends what your school uses, and your level of mathematics. If you are aiming 40+ ss raw, then I think Quest is not suitable for you.

Never did accounting so I dunno. but i heard A+ accounting is shit.

Chemistry. I used heinmann. my personal preference for textbooks is that they need to be colorful and nice to read. because you don't want to read a textbook which is black/white and have no pictures. and especially in chemistry, you have to read a decent amount. you would want to occasionally look at pics/graphs for further explanations, rather than paragraphs.

I agree with you about the exam-type question practice! Make the most of your time, stop doing exercises once you get it. To be honest I stopped doing exercises entirely after first semester and I just listened in classes because I had a good teacher for Specialist Maths. I still did exercises in Methods only because it was so easy that I actually could be stuffed doing it

I think the main textbook for Chemistry is changing... most people used Heinemann last year, but I think there is more competition with the new course.

[Galelleo]

the leading edge is pretty handy for exam prep , ive found for every subject... i used it for history, spce, physics, psych. but they dont have one for english

Also, checkpoints has plenty of practice questions/

[Odette]

Someone fix the title please thanks lol ..

As for books and things, i would recommend the a+ publishing notes (they're awesome from what i've seen) .. as for textbooks im not too sure, my books were ok... english was awesome though was the insight one (cd rom had great study guides)

[costargh]

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