Terry Lee / Cambridge / Fitzpatrick / Patel - which one's the best? (1 Viewer)

[pacman14]

I need to get myself a decent textbook for yr 12 and I was wondering which one of these textbooks is better - or perhaps a combination of 2. What do you guys think?

 

[K4M1N3]

Well individually they each have their own perks. I have used the Terry Lee and Cambridge all year, and they have been pretty good.

 

[interesting]

review on patel please! i've never seen it before :S

 

[Alkanes]

All books you've mentioned are good. But personally Terry Lee is good because it has work solutions and it's colourful in nature. Fitzpatrick quite old but still useful.

 

[artosis]

ive got all 4 (school gave fitz and cambridge, bought terry lee, and friend gave me patel)
honestly, cambridge and terry lee is all ull need.
fitzy is a bit out dated. nonetheless, the questions arent bad if ur looking for more stuff to do

 

[interesting]

ive got all 4 (school gave fitz and cambridge, bought terry lee, and friend gave me patel)
honestly, cambridge and terry lee is all ull need.
fitzy is a bit out dated. nonetheless, the questions arent bad if ur looking for more stuff to do

review of patel please!

 

[salih08]

Cambridge = to the point, best for learning the basics of the concepts, but not much exam style harder questions...

 

[4025808]

if you want to try and learn concepts, I reckon you're better off having a tutor teaching you the concepts as opposed to relying on the textbooks (textbooks aren't that great in the teaching of 4U)

nevertheless, I liked using terry lee for graphs, complex numbers, integration, volumes and harder 3U, but cambridge was better for mechanics... and polynomials... not much to say out of there..

 

[OldMathsGuy]

review of patel please!

Patel like Coroneos before it is a solid 4U book with the revised edition providing proper coverage of the Ext 2 course. There is a good range of questions that provide a good foundation and treatment of the course.
It's not going to give you much different from some of the others - a combination of Lee and Cambridge and past papers seems to suit most students. To be honest though, I don't think any of the textbooks are absolutely fantastic - the perfect 4U book is still to be written. I prefer the set of Komaromi books for Conics and Graphing but they are long out of print.

Funnily enough perhaps the best "Ext 2" book is the Y11/12 Cambridge Extension 1 books. The extension questions from those books will open your eyes to what is expected of Ext 2 students AND help you develop those traits - even though it only covers a sprinkling of specific 4u topics.

Nothing beats past papers under exam conditions though.

Best Regards
OldMathsGuy