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« Reply #15 on: November 22, 2007, 01:12:54 pm »
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English erm. Most of the insight books aren't so great, although they have a few ideas. Some are better than others, for example I liked the Romulus, My Father one but hated the Generals Die In Bed one.

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Yes..I had those insight books too for my texts and well...I guess they were a waste of money because they were not that detailed...everyone in my class bought them so i decided to buy them too....stupid me..and it did not even help me in the exam....


Insight guide books are TERRIBLE.

I could've written a better studyguide whilst learning the texts this year. NEAP are quite good and incoporate relevant discussion
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« Reply #16 on: November 22, 2007, 02:00:43 pm »
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Yeah NEAP is good for english ^_^
A+ for bus.man, further maths and psychology
Checkpoints for R+S... own notes can be more useful though
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« Reply #17 on: November 22, 2007, 04:07:30 pm »
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I know it's early, but from your experience, what are the best study guides?

Leading Edge
A+ Notes
Neap guides
TSSM English guides
Checkpoints
Or any others?


Checkpoints - Economics, Methods
Legal Studies - A+ book is great
Accounting - NEAP is great
English - NEAP for individual books


checkpoints for eco is a waste of time lol. that's what i think anyway.
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« Reply #18 on: November 22, 2007, 05:03:36 pm »
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checkpoints for eco is a waste of time lol. that's what i think anyway.


Really? I found it very useful, it not only has past questions but it also has topic summaries with detailed info. Oh well.
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« Reply #19 on: November 22, 2007, 05:50:25 pm »
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checkpoints for eco is a waste of time lol. that's what i think anyway.


Really? I found it very useful, it not only has past questions but it also has topic summaries with detailed info. Oh well.


everyone to their own ay ? [does that even make sense lol]  haha
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« Reply #20 on: November 22, 2007, 06:16:14 pm »
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I used the A+ "Physics Notes" books for Physics and "Chem Notes" for Chemistry... Both were quite good and helped me a lot :)
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« Reply #21 on: November 22, 2007, 09:22:15 pm »
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leading edge are so crap. its like they use a template for every subject and just adjust the title to match the subject.
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« Reply #22 on: November 23, 2007, 10:59:17 am »
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buy the old checkpoint books. sometimes during the year, A&G sell some old checkpoint books (left over stock) for like 5/10 bucks. so check out the store regularly. thats when its worth buying.
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« Reply #23 on: November 25, 2007, 09:28:19 am »
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being a study guide whore during the year,

maths: neap smartstudy is really good and quite difficult, a+ is so so but a bit too easy, don't bother with checkpoints because they only consist of past vcaa papers
english: from experience, i've found that insight is the best, followed by cambridge and then neap was the worst, as it simply summarised the text for minimum of two (except the newer red neap ones are a MAJOR improvement from the old ones)
science: for revision, i've found that the a+ and tsfx notes are by far the best (even to the point of being better than the textbook). neap smartstudy is really good for questions, but again i'm not a big fan of a+ because they're often irrelevant or easy
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« Reply #24 on: November 25, 2007, 10:07:27 pm »
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i bought them all for methods. i liked the A+ study notes one because it had lots of questions and good solutions. checkpoints steals them from vcaa so you end up not being able to do practice exams properly. i HIGHLY RECOMMEND EXAMBUSTERS ABOUT A MONTH PRIOR TO THE EXAM.
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« Reply #25 on: November 25, 2007, 10:34:37 pm »
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you wanna know what's the best way to perfect your chances at getting that 50!

DO ALL OF THEM =)

plus get some help when it comes to "Exam Strategy", where you have to deliver everything you've learned. (Practice exams help, under exam condition - try doing these ASAP)
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« Reply #26 on: November 26, 2007, 06:41:04 am »
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tbh nothing beats the practice you get from doing heaps and heaps of trials. everything falls into place as opposed to glancing at your year's notes.
for maths, i'd simply bind the notes, but put a cheat sheet on the front with all the hard questions you've encountered throughout the year.
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« Reply #27 on: November 26, 2007, 02:48:50 pm »
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I liked TSFX notes(from the lectures), Exambusters, and the NEAP SmartStudy for methods. The Excel revise in a month book was alright as well, just a bit bland to be honest.
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« Reply #28 on: November 26, 2007, 08:56:14 pm »
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I liked TSFX notes(from the lectures), Exambusters, and the NEAP SmartStudy for methods. The Excel revise in a month book was alright as well, just a bit bland to be honest.

Yeah, TSFX notes are quite good :)
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« Reply #29 on: November 27, 2007, 07:18:42 am »
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I liked TSFX notes(from the lectures), Exambusters, and the NEAP SmartStudy for methods. The Excel revise in a month book was alright as well, just a bit bland to be honest.

Yeah, TSFX notes are quite good :)


seconded...i went to their chem end of year lecture and they gave us material as comprehensive as the textbook we use..so its very good for studying...tbh i didnt even use my textbook alot this year for physics or chem.
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