Recommended Texbooks/Study Guides for Preliminary HSC? (3 Viewers)

[sle3pe3bumz]

Re: Recommended Texbooks/Study Guides?

Well I'm not sure about your schools, but my school asked a couple of us if we wanted textbooks on our graduation day, & it was purely your choice if you wanted them or not.

 

[Rekkusu]

Re: Recommended Texbooks/Study Guides?

As Mathematics, head to the Mathematics part in HSC section of BoS.

Cambridge + Advanced Learning Series ones are quite good in both explaining + practise.

- chemistry contexts 1 [ not sure of what edition, but it has sparks or something on the front ]
- excel prelim chem - from what i see now, ITS CRAP
- & conquering chem. 3rd ed.

physics:

- jacaranda physics prelim course book1
- & excel prelim physics

Chemistry Contexts: It's quite good at explaining details in emphasis, but its not really motivating and exciting to read. If i remember correctly, isn't it black and white?

Excel: Stuff Excel stuff UNLESS if they're past papers.

Conquering Chem: This is usually the core textbook used by most schools. Information is straightforward....and somewhat explains things longwindedly. SpotLight Chemistry Prelim & HSC are great books as supplements.

Jacaranda Physics (Prelim & HSC) : Although it's a core text used by schools, its great for understanding concepts since it has a Page-to-syllabus contents.

 

[Rekkusu]

Re: Recommended Texbooks/Study Guides?

As Mathematics, head to the Mathematics part in HSC section of BoS.

Cambridge + Advanced Learning Series ones are quite good in both explaining + practise.

- chemistry contexts 1 [ not sure of what edition, but it has sparks or something on the front ]
- excel prelim chem - from what i see now, ITS CRAP
- & conquering chem. 3rd ed.

physics:

- jacaranda physics prelim course book1
- & excel prelim physics

Chemistry Contexts: It's quite good at explaining details in emphasis, but its not really motivating and exciting to read. If i remember correctly, isn't it black and white?

Excel: Stuff Excel stuff UNLESS if they're past papers.

Conquering Chem: This is usually the core textbook used by most schools. Information is straightforward....and somewhat explains things longwindedly. SpotLight Chemistry Prelim & HSC are great books as supplements.

Jacaranda Physics (Prelim & HSC) : Although it's a core text used by schools, its great for understanding concepts since it has a Page-to-syllabus contents.

 

[Kujah]

Re: Recommended Texbooks/Study Guides?

Chemistry Contexts: It's quite good at explaining details in emphasis, but its not really motivating and exciting to read. If i remember correctly, isn't it black and white?

Not anymore

Excel: Stuff Excel stuff UNLESS if they're past papers.

Except for the Mathematic's ones

SpotLight Chemistry Prelim & HSC are great books as supplements.

Yeah, they're great

 

[Jachie]

Re: Recommended Texbooks/Study Guides?

Can anyone recommend study guides for Economics/Business/Legal?

 

[Kujah]

Re: Recommended Texbooks/Study Guides?

Heinemann?

 

[cs01001]

Re: Recommended Texbooks/Study Guides?

Leading Edge for Eco, don't know about the rest.

Oh Kujah, what course do you want to do in uni?

 

[Kujah]

Re: Recommended Texbooks/Study Guides?

Pharmacy

 

[Jachie]

Re: Recommended Texbooks/Study Guides?

Interesting. Thank you.

Know where I can find these study guides? I want to check them out, and my local Borders only stocks Excel.

 

[Kujah]

Re: Recommended Texbooks/Study Guides?

Know where I can find these study guides? I want to check them out, and my local Borders only stocks Excel.

parramatta westfields i'm guessing?

try Dymocks - it's a reliable bookshop that always has the textbooks that I need

For Legal Studies, most people say that heinemann is good

 

[cs01001]

Re: Recommended Texbooks/Study Guides?

Pharmacy

@ which Uni?

 

[Kujah]

Re: Recommended Texbooks/Study Guides?

USyd or Monash hopefully

 

[cs01001]

Re: Recommended Texbooks/Study Guides?

Interesting. Thank you.

Know where I can find these study guides? I want to check them out, and my local Borders only stocks Excel.

The City's Dymocks store, they got all the study guides you need!

 

[Kujah]

Re: Recommended Texbooks/Study Guides?

or Parramatta. They got a buckets load of textbooks for each subject

Btw cs01001, what uni course do you wanna do, and what university?

 

[cs01001]

Re: Recommended Texbooks/Study Guides?

What about Geography? I know, I am a weird guy, lol

 

[Kujah]

Re: Recommended Texbooks/Study Guides?

Yeah I'm sure they have it as well

 

[Jachie]

Re: Recommended Texbooks/Study Guides?

Thanks for the replies. I'm not looking to purchase anything yet; I just wanted to check out a few of them.

 

[cs01001]

Re: Recommended Texbooks/Study Guides?

or Parramatta. They got a buckets load of textbooks for each subject

Btw cs01001, what uni coruse do you wanna do, and what university?

Oops, actually missed the second bit. Sorry. I want to do Commerce/Veterniary Science @ UNSW. I really hope the 2007 UNSW Commerce drama happens in my year of selecting courses as well, lol

The UAI requirement for both are quite high, but I will try my best

 

[totallybord]

Re: Recommended Texbooks/Study Guides?

can we poll the best ones plz?

 

[Kujah]

Re: Recommended Texbooks/Study Guides?

Sounds good

Might be a problem cause we have so many subjects, and so many textbooks