aimhigh10
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Re: Help with textbook for preliminary?
Did you do 5.2 or 5.3 maths at school in yr 10? im guessing you did 5.3 bc you are doing extension..
at my school we start yr 11 work at the end of yr 10, so we've already done about 2/3 topics out of the cambridge 3u book. Even with a teacher teaching us I found that they were difficult, but I think if you really put time and effort into learning the 3u topics, and do some exercises out of the textbooks, then you should be able to gain a general grasp and understanding of the topic. What I've been told is that it helps to start off maths topics these holidays because next year, maths becomes really hard and (at my school) it becomes really hard even to just pass tests. This year I saw many yr 11 ext 1 girls crying over the terrible maths marks they got..
So, i'm guessing, the Cambridge book has a bit of explanation, so I think that if you really focus and attempt to teach yourself, you should be able to. It would be quite a bit easier with a tutor but if you can teach yourself how to do it the first time, then you should be able to remember how to do the same topic without any help/teaching from your teacher.
Did you do 5.2 or 5.3 maths at school in yr 10? im guessing you did 5.3 bc you are doing extension..
at my school we start yr 11 work at the end of yr 10, so we've already done about 2/3 topics out of the cambridge 3u book. Even with a teacher teaching us I found that they were difficult, but I think if you really put time and effort into learning the 3u topics, and do some exercises out of the textbooks, then you should be able to gain a general grasp and understanding of the topic. What I've been told is that it helps to start off maths topics these holidays because next year, maths becomes really hard and (at my school) it becomes really hard even to just pass tests. This year I saw many yr 11 ext 1 girls crying over the terrible maths marks they got..
So, i'm guessing, the Cambridge book has a bit of explanation, so I think that if you really focus and attempt to teach yourself, you should be able to. It would be quite a bit easier with a tutor but if you can teach yourself how to do it the first time, then you should be able to remember how to do the same topic without any help/teaching from your teacher.