I'm not naturally great at maths and I found Fitzpatrick/New Senior Maths was the perfect level of simple explanations but questions that challenged me (not too much that I'd just give up straightaway).
But if you're really good then I reckon Terry Lee is good.
Why don't you tell them all this?
Are they feeling stressed for the HSC too or are both your goals different?
EDIT: On second thought, potentially getting into a big discussion with them might stress you out more...
The hardest part for me was that the excerpts were heaps long but the questions were really broad with not much writing space.
So there was os much to talk about but you didn't know what they were looking for (e.g. I think Q1 was like "what are the instruments doing" - a 2 marker, 3 lines of...
Also, to anyone who did speeches:
I only noticed after the exam that you could've just talked about one speech. Because it didn't specify how many to do or anything.
Except I do speeches and the whole "literature" thing threw me off. In most past years the question for speeches was specific to rhetoric and persuasion - and I just wasn't feeling it with this question. I liked the 'uncomfortable truths' bit because it was SOMEWHAT related to what I prepared...
The essay question was really good for the essay I had prepared (at least I think). I had written about how discoveries rely on people's morals and surroundings to transform their attitudes, so obviously they're not completely new, and about how in my related intellectual discoveries are bad...
A while back I read that your related has to be "recognised as literature" or something along those lines, so I don't think so... since no-one recognises it to be that yet. Ik this sounds vague but I'm pretty sure I read it somewhere in the syllabus.