math advice help pls (1 Viewer)

[imhungry990]

hi yr 12s taking the hsc! i hope ur studying is going well..

just wondering.. right now im in maths advanced and im dropping to standard 2.. my school isnt letting me drop just yet and theyre saying that we can only drop week 4 of year 12 so rn im just waiting..

since i havent done any standard content in year 11 what would ur advice be for me to catch up and do really well in standard and what content specifically should i start with?

 

[reniiiblaseee]

hi yr 12s taking the hsc! i hope ur studying is going well..

just wondering.. right now im in maths advanced and im dropping to standard 2.. my school isnt letting me drop just yet and theyre saying that we can only drop week 4 of year 12 so rn im just waiting..

since i havent done any standard content in year 11 what would ur advice be for me to catch up and do really well in standard?

yes year 11 content is integral in standard

the hsc paper is made up of half year 11 content and half year 12
i don’t think it’ll be difficult for you to catch up you have a long year ahead of u
just work on both year 11 and 12 simultaneously

 

[nonya2000]

math standard is much harder than 2u. have you seen the questions in math standard?

 

[Trial&Error]

Coming from someone who's planning on sacrificing maths adv this yr, don't drop to standard. It's actually harder and most of the questions are just annoying. Also you'll have to start from yr 11 content.

Advanced is easier. I've literally done no study for it and got 66 on my first pp today without any revision. Which is aligned to 85.

standard aligning and scaling is bad as well. you needed raw 82 to get 85 last yr.

 

[ilovejoji69]

hi yr 12s taking the hsc! i hope ur studying is going well..

just wondering.. right now im in maths advanced and im dropping to standard 2.. my school isnt letting me drop just yet and theyre saying that we can only drop week 4 of year 12 so rn im just waiting..

since i havent done any standard content in year 11 what would ur advice be for me to catch up and do really well in standard and what content specifically should i start with?

when i dropped at the start of y12, my teacher gave me this booklet with the yr11 content that isnt rlly touched on in adv:

- financial (i think this is the same as y10 + more on commission and stuff in the actual context of jobs and managing money)
- blood alcohol content (BAC) + medication
- measurement (limits of accuracy + percentage error, food [stuff with joules and kJ ], energy consumption]
- perimeter, area, vol (trapezoidal rule + surface area)
- data (pareto charts, classifying data—also, histograms and shit but most of this u wouldve done back in y10. also, calculating outliers and stuff)
- time (timezones, latitude/longitude)

idk how accurate this is, i didnt actually revise it myself until trials lol. y11 content is definitely important for hsc tho so i think id focus on these ones first/primarily:

- BAC + medication
- measurement (they test limits of accuracy/percentage error and energy consumption a lot iirc)
- trapezoidal rule and surface area
- time

they're all quite easy and a lot of the formulas are either given to you in the exam or on the formula sheet. if u have friends in standard probably ask them for their notes or smth idk

i think in terms of advice, yea standard is a lot easier but it scales like shit so dont dismiss it unless u have 10+ units lol. if you were managing a low B or even a C in adv, standard will be fine, but it touches on some dumb stuff that doesnt seem really related to maths and likes putting math questions in the context of real life. jus have fun

 

[SS173]

I don't understand why people devalue standard math content. Unless you do STEM related studies at uni, probably you will never need Adv, Ext1 topics in your life . But almost everything you learn in standard will be useful . That is why it is called Essential Maths or General Maths in other states.
Of course if you are aiming for 95+ ATAR you can choose Ext1-2 maths for better scaling. Again here there was an article stating that Adv is a no-go selection. Because you need to compete against Ext1 students who are in advantage in many ways. That is why NESA will separate Adv and Ext1 completely with the new syllabus.
According to NESA report (Table A5 Distributions of scaled marks by course) for 2024 , 46.5% of Ext2 students received above 90 (around 1647 students out of 3544). This ratio is 23.2% for Ext1 (around 2052 students out of 8846) , 2.9% for Advanced (around 480 students out of 16,559) and only 0.2% for standard (around 62 students out of 31,000).
Another point to consider : you will need Ext1-2 level math at uni if you are going to do science or engineering. Early exposure will be a benefit.

 

[Legendary16]

hi yr 12s taking the hsc! i hope ur studying is going well..

just wondering.. right now im in maths advanced and im dropping to standard 2.. my school isnt letting me drop just yet and theyre saying that we can only drop week 4 of year 12 so rn im just waiting..

since i havent done any standard content in year 11 what would ur advice be for me to catch up and do really well in standard and what content specifically should i start with?

Your main consideration before dropping would be requirements for your desired uni course. If it is science based or engineering, then you would benefit greatly from retaining 2u, but if not, then you can drop. And if it is the former, then you can try to seek as much help as you can from having a set of summary notes for each topic (whenever you forget the methods for a question) or try to avail tutoring.

 

[imhungry990]

honestly, even when i actually put in effort and studied, i still only got around 65%, which was just below the average. it feels like i don’t have a solid fundamental understanding of the topics as a whole.

another issue is that i tend to forget stuff if i don’t keep revising it. like, when i was studying for prelims and practising questions — say, graphing a hyperbola or differentiating — i could handle the basic, straightforward problems. but as soon as they made the question more complex or changed the format a bit, i’d mess up.