Recommended Texbooks/Study Guides for Preliminary HSC? (4 Viewers)

[Aerath]

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Fitzpatrick ftw!
We've got the same version, but I'm pretty sure mine is an older copy. Wish I had a newer copy...

Fitzpatrick's format is the best.

 

[bored of sc]

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Does ftw stand for "for the win"?

 

[Aerath]

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Does ftw stand for "for the win"?

Yes.

 

[Aplus]

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I bought Success One Mathematics Extension 1 today, but browsing through the shelves, the shortage of proper English textbooks and quality of them is fucking disgraceful.

 

[kaz1]

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You can purchase it directly from Leading Edge. See here.

Thank you.

 

[Aerath]

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I bought Success One Mathematics Extension 1 today, but browsing through the shelves, the shortage of proper English textbooks and quality of them is fucking disgraceful.

Is that Success One Maths book any good?

 

[lyounamu]

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Is that Success One Maths book any good?

Solutions part is the only awesome part.

 

[Aplus]

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Solutions part is the only awesome part.

So you think the rest is crap?

 

[lyounamu]

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So you think the rest is crap?

No, it's not crap. I wouldn't buy it though. Because I don't need solutions for HSC Mathematics because at Board of Studies website, they have got answers and I can always check if I got them right or not.

 

[Aplus]

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I didn't like printing them out and having so much paper.

 

[Doctor Jolly]

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I didn't like printing them out and having so much paper.

Yeah same here, that's why I got one too. And it's better than checking on BoS because sometimes it's quicker.

On another note, is it just me, or does anybody else find Cambridge's explanations confusing? I honestly prefer Fitz's explanations, they're much simpler to understand and the layout is much better. I don't like Camb's glossy paper either ...

 

[the-derivative]

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Yeah same here, that's why I got one too. And it's better than checking on BoS because sometimes it's quicker.

On another note, is it just me, or does anybody else find Cambridge's explanations confusing? I honestly prefer Fitz's explanations, they're much simpler to understand and the layout is much better. I don't like Camb's glossy paper either ...

I haven't really used Cambridge before, but i think Fitzpatrick's explanations are really good. Coroneos goes into depth with his explanations and they are pretty good as well.

 

[Doctor Jolly]

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I haven't really used Cambridge before, but i think Fitzpatrick's explanations are really good. Coroneos goes into depth with his explanations and they are pretty good as well.

Yeah Coroneos' (yes! I finally spelt it right) ones are good, it's just, again with the ugly layout/typing/writing/whatever.

Hey is it true that you can only get Coroneous' books from the man himself? I remember that when I was younger, my dad drove for a very long time to his garage to get some of his books, and that's the only way that I have a copy of his books. Can you get them some place else?

 

[12o9]

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The only thing i dislike about Fitz is that when you're asked to sketch something.. the answers dont have the diagram of the answer =(.

 

[Doctor Jolly]

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The only thing i dislike about Fitz is that when you're asked to sketch something.. the answers dont have the diagram of the answer =(.

Oh and the induction has no answers .. but you can practically do that bit by yourself

 

[Aerath]

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On another note, is it just me, or does anybody else find Cambridge's explanations confusing? I honestly prefer Fitz's explanations, they're much simpler to understand and the layout is much better. I don't like Camb's glossy paper either ...

Yeah, I reckon Fitzpatrick's explanations are better....but at the same time, I don't dislike Cambridge because of its paper.

 

[Continuum]

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Just borrow 2U and 3U Fitz from library.

I'm going to see how good it is.

 

[the-derivative]

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Just borrow 2U and 3U Fitz from library.

I'm going to see how good it is.

It's pretty good.
Crappy answers though.

 

[Aerath]

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Authors don't usually write their own solutions.

 

[the-derivative]

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Authors don't usually write their own solutions.

They should.
It would make my life a hell of a lot easier.