Best Study Guides?

[elaine]

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?

[brendan]

the VCAA study design?

[elaine]

lol nah i mean the supplement books that help you understand the concepts, not what is required.

[azhtey]

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

[bilgia]

i bought cambridge and insight guides for some of my english txts...
for chem n physics and spesh i got NEAP smartstudy theyre great
also bought A+ exams for methods and spesh which arent bad.

[Odette]

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?

It would depend on the subjects you're doing, as some companies specialise in certain subjects so which subjects are you doing next year?

[Trigger_003]

Checkpoints for methods? You reckon? Isn't most if not all of it simply made up of past exam papers you can get for free from VCAA?
Generally Checkpoints is awesome though and probably has the best reputation on the whole - just didn't have the impression it was for methods/spesh so I didn't fork out there.

I don't mind those Jacaranda study packs - the cards? There are a few odd bits of irrelevant material in some of them, but on the whole I found them quite handy to flick through spontaneously. I found it quite satisfying/motivating sorting the cards I knew from the ones I didn't, and seeing the latter pile getting smaller and smaller.

Those Revise in a Month books were quite good - the ones I had anyway. Apparently wasn't too great for HHD. Don't splurge on these... coupled with the study design, a good text and one or two study guides worked into your routine during the year should be plenty. You can always invest more come exam time if you run out of material and still don't feel 50-confident.

[190290]

I used A+ for legal last yr and psych this year and i easily thought they were the best ones i could find. Our teachers even used them and set homework from the books, which the study guide has all the answers to lol

[Ahmad]

Physics checkpoints are the best. I used the summaries as preparation for the exam. The first physics trial exam I did I got 65% lol. Read the physics checkpoint summaries, did a few questions and never got below 95% or so for the rest of the year.  :wink:

Unlike physics, I think in chemistry you don't have to do many problems to get good at it. For unit 4 the most helpful thing for me was going through the VCAA 2005 and 2006 exams the night before. The VCAA exams pretty much followed the content in the heinemann book, so just reading that was usually enough to do pretty well.

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.

 

[Ahmad]

Checkpoints for methods? You reckon? Isn't most if not all of it simply made up of past exam papers you can get for free from VCAA?

I agree with this, for maths, checkpoints are just made up of a collection of past exam paper questions. Definitely not worth it.

[squance]

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.

 

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....

[azhtey]

Checkpoints for methods? You reckon? Isn't most if not all of it simply made up of past exam papers you can get for free from VCAA?

Yes thats correct but I honestly found it great because all the multi choice questions were grouped under topics and in the once spot with worked answers. I didnt end up doing any extended response because i started doing full exams our school gave us by that time. So yeh, for the multi choice i think it was worthwhile but its up to u. I would go into the store and have a flick through it and see if you want to invest in it or something else.

There are lots and lots of other methods study books and i think another one i purchased was titled "Exam 1 Buster" or something - that was ok.

Oh yeah and for legal A+ is absolutely awesome so i highly recommend you get that.

[Pencil]

[Oh yeah and for legal A+ is absolutely awesome so i highly recommend you get that.

yeah I was about to say this one. This book was my teacher

[elaine]

oh wow thanks for all your advice everyone  
did anyone get a guide for 'a man for all seasons' for english?

[kido_1]

Checkpoints for Physics
Insight and NEAP also provide pretty good summaries.
Leading Edge questions are a bit weak/unoriginal.