Why are excel study guides bad? (1 Viewer)

[animeiswild]

I just recently bought a maths and biology excel study guide but my friends say i shouldn't have bought it because it's not good. They said that macquarie was better. Is it? I flipped through the excel maths and i personally thought it was pretty good because i actually got the explanations. So why is excel bad? I use cambridge 3u txt book at school and the explanations are horrible- i get nothing.

Well if excel is bad, what is recommended? I just want a study guide not a text book.

I do the following subjects: Maths Ext 1, Adv. english, Chem, Biology, Economics, Jap continued.

Oh and i got conquering chem... That was pretty good

 

[Gigacube]

Excel is bad because it does not go into enough detail to get you a band 5 or 6 answer. It's just a summary of each dot point in the syllabus.

Doing the questions in the Excel book aren't as good as doing them in the Cambridge book.

I've heard that Dot Point is good. I think that's for Chem and possibly Bio.

 

[slyhunter]

Past paper q's > Dot Point q's. Plus Dot Point have dodgy answers.

 

[funnytomato]

couchman for 3u ? or Fitz?

 

[slyhunter]

Fitz; also irrelevant to topic

 

[Orang Ganteng95]

Is excel for Japanese continuers good or bad? And if bad please recommend good ones

 

[SpiralFlex]

Insufficient information, you only get a generalisation. Also, the questions are not that great.

 

[sinophile]

I think the summaries on excel are good. Questions, eh..

Actually now that I think about it, a lot of HSC textbooks suffer the from problem of 'not being relevant enough to exam questions'.

 

[SpiralFlex]

I think the summaries on excel are good. Questions, eh..

Actually now that I think about it, a lot of HSC textbooks suffer the from problem of 'not being relevant enough to exam questions'.

That's why I have more than one text.

 

[slyhunter]

Hence past papers do the trick.

 

[ZombieApocalypse]

I like using excel to consolidate my learning of maths extension. I personally think it's good for filling in the gaps.

 

[slyhunter]

If it's missing info, how does it fill gaps. DERP

 

[SpiralFlex]

I think excel is good for a starting point for learning ahead. But I wouldn't solely rely on it. For our common subjects I use,

Maths: Terry Lee Fundamentals, Cambridge 3U, Fitzpatrick and past papers.

Physics: Jacaranda, Physics in Context, Surfing Physics and the Dot point book.

English: Writing notes and listening to teacher, pasting sticky notes in my prescribed text of techniques, quotes etc.

 

[annagurl]

If it's missing info, how does it fill gaps. DERP

I think what Obliviate is trying to say is that he/she uses it to fill in the gaps.

 

[slyhunter]

I just noticed you have a running dog in your sig.

Mind = implode

 

[Gigacube]

Now it's a monkey err...shuffling?

 

[annagurl]

I just noticed you have a running dog in your sig.

Mind = implode

It's a monkey

 

[slyhunter]

I noticed the change.

 

[annagurl]

I think there should be a dancing penguin. That would be awesome

 

[Gigacube]

Turtles > Penguins