2026 HSC CHAT (23 Viewers)

[Scholar101]

Why did u have so many units b4 u dropped thats crazy. But ur subjects seem good. What atar are u aiming for?

I ended up picking up subjects at the same time as dropping them but had to stay in them for ages it was frustrating, I was in 17 units lol. Atar I'm aiming for 94+ if I can, don't know if I can with a Standard subject but anyways .

 

[Study to success]

I ended up picking up subjects at the same time as dropping them but had to stay in them for ages it was frustrating, I was in 17 units lol. Atar I'm aiming for 94+ if I can, don't know if I can with a Standard subject but anyways .

Nah u def can with a std subject. Dw we’re in this together case I have an atar goal of around the same and I’m gonna drop to std math too. Many people get 94+ atars with std math

 

[Scholar101]

Nah u def can with a std subject. Dw we’re in this together case I have an atar goal of around the same and I’m gonna drop to std math too. Many people get 94+ atars with std math

Okay great tysm

 

[tigerian]

Nah u def can with a std subject. Dw we’re in this together case I have an atar goal of around the same and I’m gonna drop to std math too. Many people get 94+ atars with std math

can I just say to you all that i know and have taught at least 4 students who did standard English who went straight into medicine at university. Anything is possible despite the odds tha5 seem against you

 

[WTbattleace]

Damn, if only I found maths advanced that easy..

 

[Study to success]

Damn, if only I found maths advanced that easy..

real. I used to be good at math but idk what happened to me

 

[Study to success]

I already hit rock bottom in year 10 so I have the knowledge that I can't go any lower, I can only go up.

I’m the opposite I have no knowledge so I’m only going lower

 

[hi_998]

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wow!

 

[ALolly]

@ALolly Can I please ask how did you study for math adv considering you already finished that and got quite good in it as well.

i literally just understood the content first and did some questions from the textbook to solidify my understanding and then i just moved onto hsc and trial paper questions and just did all of them. like i would understand a topic, then do textbook questions to make sure i knew it well and then just trial and hsc paper questions related to it and so on for the rest of the syllabus. this was also cuz all my assessments were literally some sort of hsc or trial questions so i had to do them either way

 

[ALolly]

i literally just understood the content first and did some questions from the textbook to solidify my understanding and then i just moved onto hsc and trial paper questions and just did all of them. like i would understand a topic, then do textbook questions to make sure i knew it well and then just trial and hsc paper questions related to it and so on for the rest of the syllabus. this was also cuz all my assessments were literally some sort of hsc or trial questions so i had to do them either way

But the main thing is just focus on understanding and then do as many questions as possible until you can do them easily

 

[Study to success]

Damn I thought there would be a lot more people actively using ypt

Well, using it and studying. Do people just join and forget, or can that be blamed on the fact that its holidays?

Some people joined ages ago and then ditched

 

[Study to success]

How do you get that subtext caption thingy with your subjects under the text boxes?

press ur profile at the top of the screen and then press signature

 

[band6antics]

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[f7eeting]

I think I am burned out. I keep making so many mistakes with everything, not just mathematics. Is this burn out or something else?

you should take a break for a while. just stick to doing work that you know you can do consistently with little to no mistakes so you're at least making progress.
maybe you're trying to go through content too quickly?

 

[ALolly]

don't you just make it equal to zero and then take the 5 to the other side and factorise the left side my taking out x square and then solve it for x

 

[Burnt_Out]

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Can someone please tell me how to find the x intercepts of this without ext math? Am I just stupid and forgetting some easy method or what

finding the x int basically means letting it equal 0. For this one, this seems like it requires e1 techniques to make sure you got all of the x-intercepts however, you can literally guess and check to find one. I guess you can use calculus and find the turning points and use the intermediate value theorem (idk if that is in math advanced).

 

[f7eeting]

yeah if its a cubic u can just sub in random numbers for x. i usually go -1, 1, 2.. you get the idea. also usually it'll be a multiple of the constant (or so ive heard)
then you know what one factor is and you.. gimme a moment ill show my working (how do u send photos here btw?)

 

[Burnt_Out]

Intermediate value theorem is ext sadly

thats sad ig the only option is to sub in points. usually its cus of the coefficients like 2+3=5 or smth like that. idk what adv wants from you

 

[f7eeting]

Making y = 0 is all fine but I really don't know how to do this with a cubic. I've already gotten all the turning points so I would think the easiest way is to find the gradient in 2 intermediate areas, say y=5 and y=1 to have a rough estimation but that isn't helpful because the intercepts have to be labelled.



I just took a photo on my phone and sent it to email it to myself to copy from my laptop

And yeah, I've seen subbing in values to get an approximation but that becomes difficult if the curve ranges beyond x = -5 to 5

yeah that is true but my teacher told us they'll rarely give anything that ranges beyond that

 

[Burnt_Out]

I don't believe I've heard that before

Sometimes, people will recognise the coefficient as something that will eventually add up to 0 and thus will sub in 1 or -1. There a whole list of potential rational roots that but thats in ext 1. If they ask this in adv i assume you have to sub in points as there is a whole topic in ext 1 about polynomials