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Start ucat asap, 1 year of ucat is too short given the competition, unless you're built diff and score very high

Pick it up if u want to pursue any stem degree except those related to med*

And they may also have an extremely heavy accent so unless you're used to it, it can be very difficult to understand what they're saying Though unsw elec engineering courses have been exempt from this even in 3rd and 4th year thankfully :lol:

1. Are you thinking of pursuing stem? If yes, exposure to ext 1 maths will be good 2. Advanced and std English are the same thing, literally. Don't be fooled that if you drop advanced English because it's too hard, that you'll get an easier time in standard. In reality it'll get harder since...

Bro how are your wrists hurting from mx2 exams Practising papers under exam conditions (ie timed, with pen and on separate writing paper) is the only solution to your problems

It's not that bad lol

You'll also derive the equations for projectile motion, which you've memorised from physics, and when you consider oscillation to be a projection of uniform circular motion onto x/y axis, some ext 2 questions with heavy algebra can be solved in a few lines

No, if you take ext 2 english, you'll have to sit the advanced english hsc as well. The reason why ext 2 maths excludes the advanced math hsc is because ext 2 math students are expected to get band 6 in it so NESA deems it unnecessary

Depends on how long ago it was given and how chill your teacher is

Pattern recognition happens when you understand a concept and apply it enough to the point where you can just "see" how to solve a certain type of question People who say that maths is literally just pattern recognition are rote learning it and will severely regret doing so later on

Nah

Go unsw for stem-related degrees All of my friends attending usyd for stem want to transfer out asap Usyd is more catered towards arts and humanities from what I've heard

Definitely burn the notes, I just dumped mine in the bin and it wasn't as satisfying as I thought it would be

Hmm conceptually? Vectors and mechanics: light work, the latter even more so if you're taking physics Integration: bit more work but still light Complex numbers and proofs: if you haven't touched concepts like them, it can be challenging at the start and most of your workload will be on them...

Not at all Proofs and inequalities can be tricky the first time around but you'll get used to it You can't really compare 3u with 4u, it's like comparing yr 11 and yr 12 physics: you can do well in the latter even if you don't know anything about the former (besides general math skills)

Yea fair, macbooks are disgusting 🤢

Laptop for lecture material + tablet for note taking >>>> split screen on tablet

imo keep maths and pull through it. You're going into a stem field and you never know when nor where it'll pop up e.g. exhibit 1 People who went into food technology/nutrition at unsw thinking they'll never touch maths again, and hence not taken it in hsc, would've gotten pummelled right now...

I use a s8 ultra for uni since I got it for like ~900 off and it's pretty good; it does everything I need it to do Just get whichever one you can get cheaper and it'll do alright Laptops are situational in stem; if you do a lot of coding, carrying one around can be very useful since you can...

fair lol that was the first thing that came up to mind when I wrote that but it isn't really true In hindsight, better reasons are: convenience, unis upload everything online and courses change twice a year (or thrice for unsw) so you wouldn't really want a book for each one