Recommended Texbooks/Study Guides for Preliminary HSC? (2 Viewers)

[Aplus]

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I reckon its the same with both Fitzy and Cambridge - they give hard questions with no assistance at all, but yeah the questions and theory in those books are pwnage. I feel sorry for those using books like Maths in Focus... that's like the trashiest book I've ever seen.

Yeah I agree.

 

[the-derivative]

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I sometimes use MIF when my self-esteem is very low in Maths and I want to do some easy questions.

That's what my maths teacher does.
Sometimes when he explains us something, our class goes wtf.
So he gets out Maths in Focus and gives us examples from that.
It actually does help... it's thanks to maths In Focus that I understand Inverse Trig =]

 

[Boxes]

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Macquarie Study Guides!

 

[Aerath]

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Macquarie Study Guides!

Really depends on which subject.

 

[Boxes]

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Really depends on which subject.

Legal, Business, Economics, and English. All good.

 

[Aerath]

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Not so sure about English. But they're pretty good for Chem - not so good for Physics.

 

[addikaye03]

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imo, MIF is pretty good to establish a base with the topic, but to extend on that base Coroneas and/or Fitzpatick don't miss a trick.
CHEM: conquering chemisty series
PHYSICS: We use surfing physics which is a pretty good lil book
PD/H/PE: Macquarie book
English: Just resource page lol

 

[kaz1]

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imo, MIF is pretty good to establish a base with the topic, but to extend on that base Coroneas and/or Fitzpatick don't miss a trick.

You forgot Cambridge.

 

[12o9]

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Not so sure about English. But they're pretty good for Chem - not so good for Physics.

Really =/?

 

[Aerath]

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Really =/?

Yeah.

 

[the-derivative]

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I think Macquarie is better than Excel... however, I think they're both crap.. maybe it's because of my subjects.

Do Macquarie make books for Mathematics?

 

[marcquelle]

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MacQuaire is the best book out there for Advanced And Standard English as for it provides contextual info instead of mainly synopsi of the texts.

For maths they only do one for General Maths i think

 

[addikaye03]

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...Excel is good for about band 3-4 in any subject. Simple as that. If like the majority of students and hope for a 5/6 then extend your resouces imo.

 

[Aerath]

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...Excel is good for about band 3-4 in any subject. Simple as that. If like the majority of students and hope for a 5/6 then extend your resouces imo.

Actually, Excel is really really good for Legal Studies. Probably better than any other Legal textbook out there.

 

[addikaye03]

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Actually, Excel is really really good for Legal Studies. Probably better than any other Legal textbook out there.

i spose i shouldn't have made such a generalisation then, its not good for any of my subjects then, especially chem & physics

 

[beve]

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i spose i shouldn't have made such a generalisation then, its not good for any of my subjects then, especially chem & physics

I find the Math Extension excel book to be pretty useful; worked solutions and pretty well put together.

Maybe thats because I suck at math.. lol..

 

[Scinery]

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I find the Math Extension excel book to be pretty useful; worked solutions and pretty well put together.

Maybe thats because I suck at math.. lol..

" " worked solutions = lifesaving

 

[Aplus]

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I only like worked solutions if they point out 'sneaky', 'tactical' ways to attack the question instead of standard methods.

 

[Aerath]

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i spose i shouldn't have made such a generalisation then, its not good for any of my subjects then, especially chem & physics

Haha, for Chem it's shit. For Physics...it's pretty good for Yr 11, but Jacaranda still beats it.

 

[the-derivative]

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I think Jacaranda is prob the best book for Physics because it goes into a lot of depth, and a book that doesn't cover all that's required in the syllabus... isn't a good text book in my opinion.