Non-accelerated students? (2 Viewers)

[whitnall8]

I was just wondering did a band E4 (i think that's the highest band?) in Extension 2 Maths last year (or any other years) who did not do extension 1 maths and 2 unit maths for the HSC in year 11? If so can you tell me how you found it, and how much work you had to put in?

 

[Dragonmaster262]

If you didn't do it in Year 11 then you had to do 3 unit and 2 unit in Year 10.

 

[whitnall8]

I meant people who did the HSC in Year 11, so accelerated maths students, sorry. I misphrased the question

 

[The Nomad]

Yes, I accelerated...didn't do 2/3 U the year before though.

 

[Dragonmaster262]

Plus you came equal first in 3 Unit Maths.

 

[The Nomad]

Plus you came equal first in 3 Unit Maths.

And second in 4U. So basically it isn't essential to do the 2/3U in the previous year.

 

[whitnall8]

Cool, thanks for replying. That's given me a bit of hope.

 

[Dragonmaster262]

And second in 4U. So basically it isn't essential to do the 2/3U in the previous year.

Well back on topic. How much work and effort did you have to put in to state rank?

 

[The Nomad]

Well back on topic. How much work and effort did you have to put in to state rank?

Isn't that completely off-topic

It was alot of work, perhaps not as much effort. On average I completed about 5 chapters each of Fitzpatrick, Cambridge and Terry...and did 100 trial papers and the past 15 years of HSC papers.

Studied around 4 hours of maths a day when I didn't go to school (except Sunday, only 2 hours or so). When I did go to school, it turned out at 2 hours of maths.

Overall, I'd say I spent around 700 hours of maths during the year. Although, that's just an extremely rough estimate.

 

[ninetypercent]

so did you mainly study from the textbook or past papers before the exam?

 

[The Nomad]

so did you mainly study from the textbook or past papers before the exam?

For my first assessment (graphs, complex numbers and polynomials), I hadn't completely finished the course yet so I did textbook exercises which I hadn't done before.

By the end of term 1, I was pretty much finished the course (with some minor deficiencies like non-uniform circular motion and circle geometry)...so I only did trials from then on, regardless of what topics were in the exam.

Basically, try to finish the course as quickly as possible (Cambridge and Terry are sufficient in my opinion)...then you only need to do trials from then on. After all, the HSC exam is a completely different story to textbook exercises.

 

[0bs3n3]

Overall, I'd say I spent around 700 hours of maths during the year. Although, that's just an extremely rough estimate.

Including school? If not, then add another 400 (200 per 2u) hours on that :/

 

[Dragonmaster262]

Isn't that completely off-topic

It was alot of work, perhaps not as much effort. On average I completed about 5 chapters each of Fitzpatrick, Cambridge and Terry...and did 100 trial papers and the past 15 years of HSC papers.

Studied around 4 hours of maths a day when I didn't go to school (except Sunday, only 2 hours or so). When I did go to school, it turned out at 2 hours of maths.

Overall, I'd say I spent around 700 hours of maths during the year. Although, that's just an extremely rough estimate.

Did you neglect any of your other subjects?

Did you get 99.95 ATAR?

 

[The Nomad]

Including school? If not, then add another 400 (200 per 2u) hours on that :/

I did the year 11 3U course, didn't bother with the year 12 2U course. And I was finished year 12 3U by the end of 2008 in terms of course content...so I don't really remember how much I worked for year 11.

Did you neglect any of your other subjects?

Did you get 99.95 ATAR?

Neglected physics...but I'm quite good at English (finished HSC chemistry). Doesn't really matter though...I just finished year 11 (and that answers your next question ).

 

[ninetypercent]

man, I did every single textbook question in Jones and Couchman and I ended up with a really shit mark in my 3u first assessment. zomg why...

 

[cutemouse]

I reckon it's worth doing the exercises "Revisions of the entire course" in the back of the 3U Coroneos book.

After all, it appears that an induction question was taken from there for this year's Ext 1 HSC exam.