Preference Of Text Books (1 Viewer)

[felixcthecat]

I bought conquering chemistry and have seen chemistry in context. My school offer chemistry contexts and chemistry pathways, i was told by former students that chemistry pathways is rather shit.

my school uses chemistry context~... there are apparently quite a few mistakes in it tho.. cuz one time we had a fuN open-book test.. and someone copied what the book wrote into the test.. teacher marked it wrong and reviewed the book afterwards saying the book was wrong.. lol.. so we stil couldn't get full marks! besides from that, i think the book is quite good.. but i've dropped chem this yr~

 

[hopeles5ly]

I don't think it's necessary for year 11 is it?

yeah probably not as i didn't use one =p. but i have a old excel hsc english textbook from o1` which i found after my prelims in my room. if any of you want it i can give it to you as it has stuff on AOS "change" which i think most of you are doing

 

[kido_1]

Excel is really crap for Chemistry in both HSC and Prelim. the new Fourth Edition of Conquering Chem is really good!!!
Physics-Jacaranda
Bio- Heinemann
Maths(general to 4U)- Fitzpatrick, Coroneas, (Excel is also pretty good)
English.... (dunno, anyone know any good books ?)


PS: any one know of some reallyyyyyy goooood English Books for prelim and HSC

 

[SoulSearcher]

I often find that I cannot even read the Coroneas books

 

[Wooz]

yep for prelim.

history teachers assosication modern history isn't that good but i have the old copy so im not sure about the new one. and wooz i think your talking about key features of modern history. that`s the best textbook ..

Theres a new history teachers association modern history study guide comming out. The old one was based on the 1999 syllabus i think, yeah i was talking about the book key features of modern history by Dennett.

 

[pLuvia]

I think the excel are probably good for english

 

[googled]

Apparently Excel for English isn't very good. I'm not sure if those types of books can help with English anyway. Get it if you can't find anything else, but surely there are better ones out there?

 

[Riviet]

Apparently Excel for English isn't very good. I'm not sure if those types of books can help with English anyway. Get it if you can't find anything else, but surely there are better ones out there?

Private english tutor.

 

[yinyin]

hey wat about business studies, legal and Japanese beginner~
Thanks~
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ya private english tutor is really good with note~~~!!!!

 

[pLuvia]

Japanese Beginners you should have this orange book, but I forgot the name of it lol sorry. I'm not sure if they make it for beginners, but look out for Mirai or Wakatta

 

[hopeles5ly]

hey wat about business studies, legal and Japanese beginner~
Thanks~
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ya private english tutor is really good with note~~~!!!!

longman business studies preliminary. the textbook even has colourful pictures and diagrams lol.

 

[subjectiv]

The 3 unit excel maths textbook sucks. It has good examples but it doesn't explain anything.

 

[chocolate_lover]

For maths 2unit ive got 3unit mathematics-longman. Is this a good book for 2unit?

 

[Riviet]

The 3 unit excel maths textbook sucks. It has good examples but it doesn't explain anything.

I personally think it's quite good at explaining its examples. It shows almost full working including supplementary triangles and diagrams for clarifying the working. There aren't as many excercises but it's good for reading over to refresh your memory.

 

[conman]

I know Maths text book for 3 Units and also for 4 units. Cambridge is good for Maths, really it challenge u for every question and beside it provides you extension questions.

 

[SoulSearcher]

Cambridge is very good but you should do some other questions from other textbooks first before you try to do cambridge. they are quite challenging

 

[conman]

Cambridge is very goos but you should do some other questions from other textbooks first before you try to do cambridge. they are quite challenging

Yep. I think so, however Cambridge also provides you best method to solve some particular challenging questions.

 

[Wooz]

Cambridge dosent have that many examples, especially for the harder questions. Also if your into harder questions get Fitzpatrick 2&3U prelim most of the tuition centres use fitzpatrick.

 

[chocolate_lover]

Does anyone know if "Longman 3 Unit Mathematics" is good?

 

[googled]

Hey, are there any textbooks out there that have the syllabus dot point and then the corressponding notes? Looking for one for bio and chem.