Show Us Your Preparation For Hsc! (3 Viewers)

[BabyK]

I'm just wondering is it better to study from your classnotes or from bought textbooks :S
and also which textbook is better for:
Modern History : Excel or Leading Edge
Business Studies: Excel or Maquarie or my class txtbook which is 600 pgs :S

I dont have time 2 learn all ov dem nd its 2 confusing 2 do so anyways bt if any one can help plz plz do cos im so lost, im aiming about band 5/6's so please anyone

 

[lyounamu]

I'm just wondering is it better to study from your classnotes or from bought textbooks :S
and also which textbook is better for:
Modern History : Excel or Leading Edge
Business Studies: Excel or Maquarie or my class txtbook which is 600 pgs :S

I dont have time 2 learn all ov dem nd its 2 confusing 2 do so anyways bt if any one can help plz plz do cos im so lost, im aiming about band 5/6's so please anyone

I reckon Excels for any other subjects apart from Legal, Maths and Engineering are pretty much crap but that's just my view.

But if you wish to choose between Excel or Leading Edge for Modern, go for Excel. My friend uses it and he is quite happy about the contents.

For Business, don't get anything. Just study off the textbook. It's much better.

 

[Doctor Jolly]

You gotta have SOMETHING for English...

I don't have a thing for English

 

[ratcher0071]

You gotta have SOMETHING for English...

Yeah like the prescribed texts !! Which some people only read half of anyway

 

[kaz1]

Yeah like the prescribed texts !! Which some people only read half of anyway

Or you can just read the summary off Sparknotes.

 

[ratcher0071]

Or you can just read the summary off Sparknotes.

Yeah kaz1. Did you do that

 

[kaz1]

Yeah kaz1. Did you do that

I did that in preparation for the Preliminary exams. Who can be bothered to read all that again?

 

[Aerath]

You gotta have SOMETHING for English...

I just have the core text which is what the school gives to us.

 

[ratcher0071]

I did that in preparation for the Preliminary exams. Who can be bothered to read all that again?

I tried and failed miserably. So Sparknotes all the way !!!

 

[ahhliss]

No wonder you're pro!

I got Cambridge 3U year 11 and 12 which I'm only using now a few weeks before HSC, past papers for last 10(?) years for 2U and Extension 1 and a stack of revision sheets, past trials from everywhere that the teacher gave us for preparation...

I have the work, but no where near enough time >.<"


EDIT: Oh yeah, I got Maths in Focus from the school. I'd forgotten about them...

 

[shaon0]

I was recently cleaning my arsenal and came across the fact that I might be under-prepared for my HSC subjects except Mathematics and Mathematics Extension 1.

My books truly speak for themselves actually:

Mathematics:
Sucess One 2U
Sucess One 3U
Yr 11 Cambridge 3U
Yr 12 Cambridge 2U
Leading Edge 2U
Leading Edge 3U
Excel Prelim 2U
Excel Prelim 3U
Excel HSC 2U
Excel HSC 3U
Coroneous 2U
Arnold 2U
Smith 2U
Excel Revision 2U
Excel Topic by topic 2U
50 Tips 2 Unit
Pocketbook 3 Unit
Fitzy 2U
Fitzy 3U
Excel Step-by-Step 2U
Couchman 3U 1st
Couchman 3U 2nd
And 3 other not-named books for maths

Bio:
Jacaranda HSC
Heinemann
Spotlight
Excel
Oxford
Dot-point

English:
10 books - don't want to name - too long

SOR
Excel
Random Textbook
LOL

Business
Textbook
LOL

I just showed off some books I have but the purpose of this thread is to show what your preparations are for HSC. You don't necessarily have to show books. Just my thought.

wow, you must studying 23/7

Maths:
Cambridge 3unit
3unit mathematics 1 and 2 by Jones, Couchman (borrowed from library)
4unit fitzpatrick (borrowed from library)

English:
Some lame novels and plays which i've read upto chapter 2.

SOR 1:
Living Religion

Physics:
Physics Contexts 1

Chemistry:
Chemistry Contexts 1

Biology:
some crap bio text book and prac manual.

 

[tommykins]

回复: Re: Show Us Your Preparation For Hsc!

You gotta have SOMETHING for English...

Nope, i've never read my texts in full (lucky to get through a quarter of it) which is basically the same for telling the truth module, 6 poems - ive only covered 2.

 

[lyounamu]

how'd you get thru all the books then?

I am a fast worker. And I make sure I don't do the same type of questions over and over again.

For example, if they have questions

x^2 + 4x + 4 = 0 and x^2 + 6x + 9 = 0

And tell me to work out the x, I don't do all of them (I mean, in reality, I wouldn't do either of them because they are too easy). I would probably do one question. For example, if you have a fitzpatrick book in front of ya, and you have q 1 a), b), c) and etc. I only do probably half or one third of the amount. But I do every single question as in 1, 2, 3, 4.

And when I go through questions, if they questions are too easy, I don't even bother to do them. So I usually skip through questions and calculate them in my head, if I can do them, I just move on.

 

[ronnknee]

Woooo, go me!

Maths
2U - Fitzpatrick
3U - Fitzpatrick, Cambridge 11, Cambridge 12
4U - None yet, waiting for the school to gimme

Physics
Spotlight

Chemistry
Conquering, Contexts (on computer), Jacaranda

English
None

Phew finally someone normal.

 

[lyounamu]

Phew finally someone normal.

Your maths collection is as varied as mine though...

 

[Sarah182]

What textbooks have people got for English so far?
Are there any out yet which relate to the new syllabus?

 

[shaon0]

I am a fast worker. And I make sure I don't do the same type of questions over and over again.

For example, if they have questions

x^2 + 4x + 4 = 0 and x^2 + 6x + 9 = 0

And tell me to work out the x, I don't do all of them (I mean, in reality, I wouldn't do either of them because they are too easy). I would probably do one question. For example, if you have a fitzpatrick book in front of ya, and you have q 1 a), b), c) and etc. I only do probably half or one third of the amount. But I do every single question as in 1, 2, 3, 4.

And when I go through questions, if they questions are too easy, I don't even bother to do them. So I usually skip through questions and calculate them in my head, if I can do them, I just move on.

yeah thats what i usually do but i only study for max. 1 hour and then stop. I'll probably fail my yearlies because i only studied for shemistry then didn't study for any other subject (my cpu broke down) but i'm hoping to do about 4 hours of study a day in the HSC.

 

[Sarah182]

i'm hoping to do about 4 hours of study a day in the HSC.

Good luck I would like to do about 2-3 hours a day next year, including weekends. This year I was good at the start (I did about 1-2 hours a day) but I slacked off very badly to the end.
I really want to change that.

 

[lyounamu]

What textbooks have people got for English so far?
Are there any out yet which relate to the new syllabus?

Even though the syllabus is changing, you can still get some books about the new texts because they are not changing all of the syllabus. I managed to get some books about Immigrants' Chronicle by Peter Skryzenki (wrong spelling, I bet)

 

[emytaylor164]

Senior studies of religion
Living religion (schools)
Maquarie studies of religion(the older version which is mine)
Maquarie studies of religion(new schools)

Peter Skrzynecki Excel
The Club Excel
Witness Excel

IPT excel
Some random IPT textbook from school i think it might be cambridge

IT
The class work only

Textiles and design preliminary and HSC I think it is from thompson also schools