What are the BEST textbooks to buy? (1 Viewer)

[LeetSpeek]

School ones are old, tattered and look as if theyve been ravaged by a dog.

which textbooks are the best to buy for

Chemistry
Physics
Business Studies
Economics
English Advances
2U math
3 U math

thnx

 

[rolror88]

There's already a thread on this: http://community.boredofstudies.org...ed-texbooks-study-guides-preliminary-hsc.html

 

[lou071]

School ones are old, tattered and look as if theyve been ravaged by a dog.

which textbooks are the best to buy for

Chemistry
Physics
Business Studies
Economics
English Advances
2U math
3 U math

thnx

chemistry: excel
maths: fitzpatrick

 

[LeetSpeek]

Crap, I failed to notice the sticky about 5 cm away from my own topic.....



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[Aquawhite]

chemistry: excel
maths: fitzpatrick

Excel for Chemistry? Are you insane? It is the briefest most summarised book that doesn't touch in-depth or any of a harder style example.

Definitely Conquering Chemistry wins!

 

[lou071]

Excel for Chemistry? Are you insane? It is the briefest most summarised book that doesn't touch in-depth or any of a harder style example.

Definitely Conquering Chemistry wins!

i personally liked excel for chemistry.
yes it is brief but it was good to carry around and read to refresh memory.

 

[super.muppy]

DOT POINT for phys chem

 

[iSplicer]

chemistry: excel
maths: fitzpatrick

Fitzpatrick is pathetic, questions are all over the place and disorganized. Cambridge 3 unit is the top; the extension questions are extremely challenging, even for selective students such as myself.

 

[binary star]

I reckon Cambridge is good.

 

[x33.datchick.xx]

here's some of the good ones.. we use them at school.

Chemistry - chem in context, conquering chem. study guide: macquarie
Physics - phys in context, jacardanda phys. study guide: macquarie
Business Studies - business studies in action.
Economics - dont do eco so i wouldnt know.
English Advance - no text book...
2U math - cambridge, maths in focus to get basics
3 U math - cambridge, maths in focus to get basics. reference book - understanding yr 11 maths or excel one.

 

[soporific]

chem - conquering or contexts
maths - fitzy or cambridge

and btw. from my POV fitzpatrick is better. even though the layout of the book is boring and it doesn't have A LOT of questions, they are very good~

cambridge is alright. i use both. we get given cambridge and i have fitzpat for further reference.

and yes cambridge is challenging .. for most students if not all. however i personally feel unsatisfied because i have to 'select' questions to do instead of doing every question (which will take for than 3-4 hours miniumum, TRUST ME!!!). i only do the work because it's set by the teacher. (who usually checks if we've been good or not)

it's a personal thing. but i love fitzpatrick!!!!!


and that's my two cents

 

[h3ll h0und]

i really dont think excel is sufficient is good for chem ... its really really reallly really brief conquering chemistry FTW
also for maths... id go with cambridge because they hav challenging/interesting questions and theyr explanations are pretty good
for fitzpatrick their questions seem repetitive to me ... but still a good book to practice from... the price is alot though esp if u wanna buy the ext maths book as well(referring to fitzy)....y cant they just hav the 2U and 3U in one book? :mad1:

 

[h3ll h0und]

oh also for physics get jacaranda .... luv that book although it tends to go into some HSC topics i think talent 100 gets some of its material like graphs, diagrams and questions from there....not sure though.

 

[bored.of.u]

For chem: conquering chemistry IMO is a must
maths 2u&3u: fitzpatrick and cambridge

 

[Aquawhite]

My school uses Physics in context, Conquering Chemistry (a maths book that no-one has heard of but I think it good), it's by Couchman + someone else.

I think they are pretty good.