MATH1131 or MATH 1141 (higher maths) (1 Viewer)

[dhampoet]

Hi

I am interested in doing MATH1141 but the math coordinator (Peter Brown) personally gave me an advice via email that I should drop to MATH 1131.
I did not send any email asking about this issue because I am confidence with my maths ability.They suddenly just told me via email that they think it is unwise for me to do MATH1141

I applied to electrical engineering using TES mark from TPC TAFE Course
I got 100 in Calculus and 92 in Advance Maths. The coordinator said that those courses are equivalent to Extension 1 Maths High School

Is MATH1141 really that hard

 

[Mature Lamb]

If you personally think you can handle MATH1141, give it a go for a few weeks. You always have the choice of dropping down to MATH1131 later on if you wish.

 

[Drongoski]

If you personally think you can handle MATH1141, give it a go for a few weeks. You always have the choice of dropping down to MATH1131 later on if you wish.

Good advice. Meanwhile OP should try to get hold of a copy of 1131/1141 & perhaps 1231/1241 UNSW Pinted notes (copies in the UNSW Library?) to have a feel of what he will be having to deal with. If he feels he can handle 1141, then advise Peter Brown that he wishes to do 1141 as planned and to drop to 1131 if he later finds he cannot handle it.

What course are you pursuing, OP? Electrical Engg?

 

[Shadowdude]

He also sent me the same email about a year ago, I thought: "Take your recommendation and..." well, yeah.

I got 84 in MATH1141. So if you're confident, just enrol anyway and if you really want to, reply and say "Thanks for the recommendation, but no thanks - I'll be enrolling in 1141".

 

[kaz1]

do 1131, it's mostly the same thing and the lecturers are better in 1131

 

[TheStallion]

Note that 1131/1141 go through the exact same assessment up until the final exam. In the final exam the 1141 exam will just have harder questions at the end, but will also subsequently scale better (i.e way more HD's are given to 1141 kids than 1131 ones)

As others have said, go for 1141 and when you get the books, look at the problems marked with an [X]. Those problems are for 1141 students only. See how you cope with those. 1131/1141 honestly isn't such a huge gap, the 1231/1241 gap was far bigger.

 

[Shadowdude]

Note that 1131/1141 go through the exact same assessment up until the final exam. In the final exam the 1141 exam will just have harder questions at the end, but will also subsequently scale better (i.e way more HD's are given to 1141 kids than 1131 ones)

As others have said, go for 1141 and when you get the books, look at the problems marked with an [X]. Those problems are for 1141 students only. See how you cope with those. 1131/1141 honestly isn't such a huge gap, the 1231/1241 gap was far bigger.

Oh, yep. Seeing section after section marked 'X' in the course notes was... interesting.

But immensely rewarding. If you really like maths, then I really encourage you to do the Higher version. Stuff scaling.

 

[Carrotsticks]

I got 84 in MATH1141.

Oh dear, so close. I would get quite frustrated if I were that close.

 

[Shadowdude]

Oh dear, so close. I would get quite frustrated if I were that close.

Well, after being recommended to not do the course - I was just happy to get a good mark.

 

[unholybuddha]

If you are confident in your math ability I strongly recommend doing MATH1141 as the scaling is better. There is not much difference between 1131 and 1141. If you keep up weekly just by doing the minimum requirement list you will be fine. I never looked at the [X] questions which means I was pretty much doing 1131 content for most of the semester. However , as only the final exam is different, doing all 1141 papers and understanding (or memorising) the answers is sufficient to get an easy HD.