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Aerath said:
But they're just past papers aren't they?
Good for revising for exams :D
 

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Good for revising for exams :D
Yeah, not very good if you don't have an idea what the hell you're doing. :p
 

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Is this Preliminary past papers or HSC past papers? If they're preliminary, I'm in :).
 

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Is this Preliminary past papers or HSC past papers? If they're preliminary, I'm in :).
They're past HSC exams with worked solutions.
 

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there's nothing more that I like than worked solutions :)
 

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Yeah, there's nothing I hate more than past papers w/out solutions, because I have no idea whether or not I'm doing something correctly.
 

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Yeah, past papers without solutions are really annoying.
 

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Well, if you bought extra textbooks, it is up to you to use them whenever you feel like using. I use my Cambridge & Couchman after I complete all my homework.
I'd prefer it if we had to buy Cambridge and use it for school, but then again other people might not be willing to pay so much.
I try to get a general idea of the work from the sheets my teacher gives which are photocopies out of Couchman, Fitzpatrick I think and a lot of sheets she writes. I use Cambridge's "Development" questions because they're the harder level. What do you think of doing half the work the teacher gives and then choose questions out of Cambridge?
 

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Yeah, not very good if you don't have an idea what the hell you're doing. :p
You should have some idea by that time :)
 

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I'd prefer it if we had to buy Cambridge and use it for school, but then again other people might not be willing to pay so much.
I try to get a general idea of the work from the sheets my teacher gives which are photocopies out of Couchman, Fitzpatrick I think and a lot of sheets she writes. I use Cambridge's "Development" questions because they're the harder level. What do you think of doing half the work the teacher gives and then choose questions out of Cambridge?
Um... I personally would not recommend that unless the work given is absolute pointless (due to its easiness).

Mathematics homework is usually relevant. So I will recommend you to do all the work. However, the work given must be finished within hour and then you should move on to another workbook or something.
 

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Anyways. :D

Anyone have any ideas on good Physics textbooks?
 

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Jacaranda .
 

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Is that the only -good- one?
 

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It's the only one I use.
Jacaranda and DotPoint :lol:
 

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Um... I personally would not recommend that unless the work given is absolute pointless (due to its easiness).

Mathematics homework is usually relevant. So I will recommend you to do all the work. However, the work given must be finished within hour and then you should move on to another workbook or something.
Oh ok, thanks ^^
 

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Aerath said:
Is that the only -good- one?
It's the best.

I don't think macmillan is bad, but it's arranged out of wack, so it's not good for studying before a test. I find that some of the explanations are good and it has most of the stuff, even it it's out of order of the syllabus.
 

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It's the best.

I don't think macmillan is bad, but it's arranged out of wack, so it's not good for studying before a test. I find that some of the explanations are good and it has most of the stuff, even it it's out of order of the syllabus.
Yeah, I've got Macmillan, from school. Except, it was published before the syllabus changed, so there's a lot of stuff that got deleted from the syllabus that's still in the Macmillan textbook.
 

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Hi
Are their Dot Point books for all subjects or not?
Cos i havent been able to find any on the net cos a friend said that they were good...

thanks

shayla
 

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Dot Point Books are only for the Sciences. Dot Point books are used for revision so they don't really teach as deeply as a textbook would.
 

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shayla said:
Hi
Are their Dot Point books for all subjects or not?
Cos i havent been able to find any on the net cos a friend said that they were good...

thanks

shayla
They have dot point fo legal and bussiness i think. But it is only for year 12.
 

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