Should I do 4unit Maths? (1 Viewer)

[shaon0]

I have been having a dilemma lately. I am finding Extension 1 Maths relatively easy but this is not showing up on my Assessment marks for Extension 1.
If so should i do Extension 2? Any advice will be appreciated.

 

[minijumbuk]

Try it. You can always drop back down.

 

[-Anfernee-]

I think you should go for it. Like the poster before me said, you could always drop back down. If on the other hand you find that you can handle it, then you're well on your way to decent marks.

So really , it's a no brainer unless you're not able to drop it in yr 12 because of insufficient units, which i don't think applies in your case since you're doing SOR.

You really have nothing to lose.. except your Mathematical pride.


tbh, i think you just need a lot of practice in an exam setting for EXT1, most of it is fairly standardised questions in exams.

 

[shaon0]

Thanks for your advice everyone...The problem that i have is that i am finding MX1 relatively easy but it doesn't correlate into my marks. Only topic i find a little bit tough is Co-ordinate Geometry and thats only because there are a lot of formulae to memorise.

 

[nerdsforever]

Ask the teacher what he/she thinks.

I mean if you think ext 1 is easy, you should probably do ext 2. Maybe your marks dont correlate because you havent been given a tough challenge to motivate you

 

[shaon0]

Ask the teacher what he/she thinks.

I mean if you think ext 1 is easy, you should probably do ext 2. Maybe your marks dont correlate because you havent been given a tough challenge to motivate you

Yea probably...lol...i don't want to ask the teacher because he said with the marks my class is getting...only 4 ppl will be able to do extension 2 next year which is not a good sign.

 

[shaon0]

I just looked at an Extension 2 paper and nearly sh*t myself...
how are you meant to do these especially the conics and complex numbers?
Extension 2 looks way to difficult for me.

 

[-Anfernee-]

I just looked at an Extension 2 paper and nearly sh*t myself...
how are you meant to do these especially the conics and complex numbers?
Extension 2 looks way to difficult for me.

lol, you're only in prelim atm.

When you start leanring the course work it'll start to make sense.

You'd be surprised, half of EXT2 is just bookwork. If you look through questions 1 to 4 for the hsc paper, they are pretty much identical from year to year.

With Q's 5 and 6 being of moderate difficulty but still do-able and Q 7 and 8 being near impossible to complete or comprehend but the upside is that not too many other people will be able to them either.

 

[shaon0]

lol, you're only in prelim atm.

When you start leanring the course work it'll start to make sense.

You'd be surprised, half of EXT2 is just bookwork. If you look through questions 1 to 4 for the hsc paper, they are pretty much identical from year to year.

With Q's 5 and 6 being of moderate difficulty but still do-able and Q 7 and 8 being near impossible to complete or comprehend but the upside is that not too many other people will be able to them either.

Yea...it seems pretty hard now but will it start making sense by the time i get to choosing 4unit math?

 

[-Anfernee-]

Yea...it seems pretty hard now but will it start making sense by the time i get to choosing 4unit math?

Yes,

As I said, it would start to make sense when you actually start learning the course content in class and doing questions, writing notes, past papers, reading the textbooks...etc

Also, look into private tutoring if you need to, It aint no thang to give up that change.

 

[shaon0]

Yes,

I said it would start to make sense when you actually start learning the course content in class and doing questions, writing notes, past papers...etc

Also, look into private tutoring if you need to, It aint no thang to give up that change.

Just like you did with all your current courses...If you had looked at the content in year 10 I'm sure year 11Physics, Chemistry and 3 unit textbooks, papers ...etc wouldn't have made much sense and would have looked pretty hard.

No, actually the Physics, Some of the 3unit cambridge and some of the Chemistry made sense...Actually i kind of understand 1% of the 4unit course where it deals with trigonometric identities and polynomials

 

[-Anfernee-]

No, actually the Physics, Some of the 3unit cambridge and some of the Chemistry made sense...Actually i kind of understand 1% of the 4unit course where it deals with trigonometric identities and polynomials

Well, do you have to qualify to be accepted into the 4 unit class?

Or do they just let anyone in 3unit that wants to, do it?..at your school

 

[shaon0]

Well, do you have to qualify to be accepted into the 4 unit class?

Or do they just let anyone in 3unit that wants to, do it?..at your school

No i think you have to qualify since our classes 4unit teacher wrote the Cambridge 4Unit textbook.

 

[-Anfernee-]

Well, do you fancy yourself being able to make it in ?

 

[-Anfernee-]

youre not supposed to look at it yet! of course its going to look difficult... 2 unit would have looked difficult in year 10.

3 unitz, you maths genius, you.

Did you do 4unit?

 

[shaon0]

Well, do you fancy yourself being able to make it in ?

I don't know honestly...I could go well.

 

[-Anfernee-]

shaono, just wait and see how things pan out..

 

[shaon0]

3 unitz, you maths genius, you.

Did you do 4unit?

I'm 100% he did 4unit...he answers all the questions on BoS and takes him 5 seconds ie. 3 lines to do a very complicated question.

 

[-Anfernee-]

I'm 100% he did 4unit...he answers all the questions on BoS and takes him 5 seconds ie. 3 lines to do a very complicated question.

Oh right, I guess he's more than just a pretty face then.

 

[shaon0]

How hard is university maths?...I want to do Mechatronics Engineering but how much maths would i have to do in MTRX 1?