gamecw
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- 2006
well i used to really like maths when i lived in china, n was always top in my school
in yr7 i came to aust, maths was Soo easy 4 me, like the stuff they taught back then, i alrdy learnt years ago.. well we did 2unit geometric sequence in year 6 and they were teachin me how to simplify 2x+3x. so yea, i started losin my interest in maths, and started bludgin for years.. prior to the day i walked into my sc exam, i have Neva opened my maths text book (wonderin if i had one), and thought that i might still score a top band 6 like close 2 100%.. but the results were bad.. i only managed to score a band 5..
then in yr11, i started doin 3u maths, it was kinda interestin bcoz for once there was sumthin new to learn! and for once in aust, i met a teacher who knew wht he was talkin abt.. i really liked the way he explained maths, he got my interest up in maths agn! so instead of sleepin in class, i listened and actually completed all the homeworks at home.. then it was my 1st prelim assessment task, i think it was on permutation/combination, i scored 100/100 and the person who came 2nd got low 70's. Afta that, Again, i stoped trying. knowing that ill beat the rest of the class anyway, i lost my enthusiasm in doin maths.
From then til my final prelim exam, i have studyed maths at home a maximum of 5 times.. managed to score 77% n still came 1st in our school (2nd was 50 sumthing)
at the end of last yr, i was invited to do 4u maths, i was told dat 4u is much harder than 3u, so i actually planned to study harder.. but unfortunately, this teacher i liked left us, he went to teach at selective high school and left us with no teacher for 4u!
well, including me, we only have two students who're doin 4u this yr.. and the only two for the past 10~15 yrs... so none of the teachers took our class seriously!! at the end we got this teacher who hasnt taught 3/4u maths for like ten yrs.. i dunno how many hrs of 4u u guys do at school each week, but 2 hrs/week is how much we do for the 1st two or three months, afta that we have a class like once every two weeks!! and around half an hour to 45 mins max for each lesson.. like i said, that teacher lacks of experiences of teachin such course, so i found her classes not helpful at all anyways, so i even stopd goin (we havent had a 4u class for two months now =S) well i like to study under pressures n competitions and can ONLY study when there're pressures.. but this sort of pressureless environment makes me just not want to study... until mid this yr, i only did 4u twice at home, both just the day b4 assessment tasks, n got extremly low marks like jus above 50s.
then three months b4 trials, i went for a ten weeks 4u tutor at james an and again realize how much behind i am.
well, i've been studyin harder lately on all my sujects, but still not tryin my best.. 2~3 hrs (including school) is all i can study each day, unless theres an exam comin up da day afta (then i can study about 6~8 hrs?)... all those yrs of time wastin fomulated my lazy personality =( and now 'study' works just like mathmatical induction for me, its poven that i wont study today, and its proven that i wont study tomorrow, so i wont study for any days..
theres only like 5 weeks til hsc now, and i really want a 92+uai so that i can do Bcom in unsw.. but now i really doubt it. i was hoping sumthiing like maths 4u can lift my uai up abit.. but now i think its not gonna happen...
Guys, other than actuarial studies, wat other courses at uni r related to both maths n business?
in yr7 i came to aust, maths was Soo easy 4 me, like the stuff they taught back then, i alrdy learnt years ago.. well we did 2unit geometric sequence in year 6 and they were teachin me how to simplify 2x+3x. so yea, i started losin my interest in maths, and started bludgin for years.. prior to the day i walked into my sc exam, i have Neva opened my maths text book (wonderin if i had one), and thought that i might still score a top band 6 like close 2 100%.. but the results were bad.. i only managed to score a band 5..
then in yr11, i started doin 3u maths, it was kinda interestin bcoz for once there was sumthin new to learn! and for once in aust, i met a teacher who knew wht he was talkin abt.. i really liked the way he explained maths, he got my interest up in maths agn! so instead of sleepin in class, i listened and actually completed all the homeworks at home.. then it was my 1st prelim assessment task, i think it was on permutation/combination, i scored 100/100 and the person who came 2nd got low 70's. Afta that, Again, i stoped trying. knowing that ill beat the rest of the class anyway, i lost my enthusiasm in doin maths.
From then til my final prelim exam, i have studyed maths at home a maximum of 5 times.. managed to score 77% n still came 1st in our school (2nd was 50 sumthing)
at the end of last yr, i was invited to do 4u maths, i was told dat 4u is much harder than 3u, so i actually planned to study harder.. but unfortunately, this teacher i liked left us, he went to teach at selective high school and left us with no teacher for 4u!
well, including me, we only have two students who're doin 4u this yr.. and the only two for the past 10~15 yrs... so none of the teachers took our class seriously!! at the end we got this teacher who hasnt taught 3/4u maths for like ten yrs.. i dunno how many hrs of 4u u guys do at school each week, but 2 hrs/week is how much we do for the 1st two or three months, afta that we have a class like once every two weeks!! and around half an hour to 45 mins max for each lesson.. like i said, that teacher lacks of experiences of teachin such course, so i found her classes not helpful at all anyways, so i even stopd goin (we havent had a 4u class for two months now =S) well i like to study under pressures n competitions and can ONLY study when there're pressures.. but this sort of pressureless environment makes me just not want to study... until mid this yr, i only did 4u twice at home, both just the day b4 assessment tasks, n got extremly low marks like jus above 50s.
then three months b4 trials, i went for a ten weeks 4u tutor at james an and again realize how much behind i am.
well, i've been studyin harder lately on all my sujects, but still not tryin my best.. 2~3 hrs (including school) is all i can study each day, unless theres an exam comin up da day afta (then i can study about 6~8 hrs?)... all those yrs of time wastin fomulated my lazy personality =( and now 'study' works just like mathmatical induction for me, its poven that i wont study today, and its proven that i wont study tomorrow, so i wont study for any days..
theres only like 5 weeks til hsc now, and i really want a 92+uai so that i can do Bcom in unsw.. but now i really doubt it. i was hoping sumthiing like maths 4u can lift my uai up abit.. but now i think its not gonna happen...
Guys, other than actuarial studies, wat other courses at uni r related to both maths n business?
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