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    4U maths destroys confidence

    4U has turned me emo. no seriously, it's a great feeling when you're finished, not because it was so hard, but because it was so rewarding.
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    Need Honest Advice

    try it without Euler's identity.
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    Need Honest Advice

    Here is a ranking of the difficulty of topics: Hardest ---------------------------------------------------- Easiest Harder 3unit, Complex numbers ............................ Everything else However, this is complex numbers combined with polynomials. This may seem weird, and contrary to...
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    Holidays !!!

    In order to improve my maths ability, I plan to do maths questions this holidays.
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    Need conics help

    Go ask your teacher at school. Trebla's explanation is about as good as it's going to get without using a diagram. The following might help though: MM' is the distance between M and M', which is the same as the distance from M' to O added to the distance from O to M'. From the anatomy of the...
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    Textbook Maths in Focus

    I got 5th in the state and I only used Cambridge. I tried MTF briefly, just to do some of the challenge questions. I couldn't do them.
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    Where the Wild Things Are

    This Lime-tree Bower My Prison. Max is sent to his room which acts as his prison. From there, he basically has the same journey as Coleridge. The only thing that unsettles me about this text is the lack of good techniques to argue with. However, I managed to use it twice in my assessments and...
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    Maths/Chem/Physics Tutor

    How familiar are you with the HSC course?
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    UAI 100 2/3/4 English, 2/3/4U Maths, 2U Eco, 2U Chem, 2U Phys

    It is a difficult choice: If you go to her, you will receive better marks. If you don't go to her, you won't. Wait, it's not really that hard a choice, is it? In short, high recommended. -- Hi may.
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    Curve Sketching: Exponential Functions

    Graph e^x^2, then reciprocalise it.
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    Really hard parametrics question- need help !!

    yes, it's not the height of a triangle there, but it's pretty obvious what the missing step is, isn't it? join a perpendicular from I to PQ. That is the height. (i had a diagonal height, which worked because of similarity) i'm sorry it's not that clear, but i'm trying to be concise in the...
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    Really hard parametrics question- need help !!

    by the way, fellow fortian, how did you draw that diagram? i'm also fort st, graduated last year. you'll see me at speech day if you don't skip it.
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    Really hard parametrics question- need help !!

    they're both quite straight forward really, everything's set out for you. for c), use the similarity argument. Let's call the place where the tangent at T intersects IP and IQ "H" and "K" respectively. quite clearly, triangles IHK and IPQ are similar (angle PIQ is common, PQ//HK). since MT =...
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    Syllabus development

    If only they introduced 5 unit maths.
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    TUTORING (for HSC etc.)

    Hi Veronica see you and Xin on Sunday :)
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    Best piano pieces for 8th grade/Associate level.

    Chopin - Etude de Concert, Op.10, Op.25 Chopin - Grande Polonaise, Op.22 Chopin - Fantaisie-Impromptu (everyone must play this anyway at some stage) Chopin Mazurken, Polonaisen, Concerti, Waltzes, pretty much all good. Scriabin - Etude Op.12, No.8 Rachmaninoff, Op.3 (No.1 Elegie is very good...
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    HSC Chemistry Tutoring - HSC Mark 95, 1 year experience

    What is this Alma Puxley Prize? I presume it's just first in chem. haha Fortian 05, way to go. worst fort street hsc year ever :p have you heard? fort street got 20 premier's this time.
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    Post Your 2008 University Offers Here! (UAC, VTAC, etc) (No Spam) (UAI cutoffs link)

    Re: Post Your 2008 University Offers Here! (UAC, VTAC, etc) (No Spam) (UAI cutoffs li B Combined Law / Usyd
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    Mechanic question help

    i think ssglain would know, given her nothing less than absurdly good results.
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