Opinions on Excel HSC Maths guides (1 Viewer)

[findx]

Are the Excel HSC Maths, Maths Ext 1 and Maths Ext2 study guides any good?
Would it be better to spend my money on an extra textbook?

what do you bos members recommend?

 

[SpiralFlex]

Our Ext 2 cohort loves the Excel book for some reason, we have three books, Fitzpatrick, Cambridge, Terry Lee, yet they seem to just want to buy the Excel book. From experience, I have only used it once in the library though, I was learning integration by parts and reductions. It's not too bad a book to learn the basics.

 

[Aysce]

I have all 3, bought them for 10 each . But in my opinion, as spi said, pretty much alright for basics. If you want to extend yourself or do HSC-potential Qs, those 3 books above, will do the job- Mostly Fitzpatrick.

 

[4025808]

Terry Lee imo will expose you more to HSC style questions, once you have passed the development stage.

 

[Alkanes]

Well they have full working solutions, so i guess it's a good book to get.

 

[Aysce]

Are the 4u qs in Terry Lee actually HSC styled? My teacher is teaching us really basic stuff compared to the things in that textbook :/

 

[SpiralFlex]

I don't think Terry Lee's questions are examination style. It's good for consolidation and understanding.

 

[Aysce]

Hopefully not :L, what are you up to for 4u?

 

[4025808]

I don't think Terry Lee's questions are examination style. It's good for consolidation and understanding.

Terry Lee did take questions and alter them from previous HSC papers though. I recall some questions for our 3U half yearly were taken off Terry Lee. Freaken lazy Ms Daley =_=

 

[SpiralFlex]

Hopefully not :L, what are you up to for 4u?

We've finished Complex, Graphs, Polynomials, we're doing a bit of Circle Geometry.

 

[Aysce]

WOAH. My school is only up to graphs... I'm planning to do 1-2 topics in holidays ^^

 

[SpiralFlex]

Good luck, Spiral will be here lurking on the forums.

 

[khfreakau]

Terry Lee is by far the most challenging of the 3, but I think Patel's non excel 4u book is really good. It has a mix of hard and easy questions to let you grasp the basics and then apply your knowledge. But really, I don't think anyone should be doing the harder questions in textbooks - they can at times be simply ridiculous to answer and not examination style. Once you've mastered the basics, it's time for past papers

 

[jnney]

woah. My school is only up to graphs... I'm planning to do 1-2 topics in holidays ^^

wow me too!

 

[Aysce]

Are you like halfway through graphs? I just touched sketching square roots :S

 

[4025808]

We've finished Complex, Graphs, Polynomials, we're doing a bit of Circle Geometry.

I remember at this point of time we only just started doing graphs T_T
Our class was rather slow because 4 people were going to drop the course. We even had Mr Matchett as well, and he was rather slow compared with Mr Paraskevas.

Your class is rushing, I swear... but then again it's good coz everyone can revise for the trial earlier and revise for their other subjects too
Although I have a feeling that Mr Paraskevas will write a pretty troll trial this year: ours was okay.