Prelim 2015 Chit Chat Thread (5 Viewers)

[WrittenLoveLetters]

No no, it's a very smart and sensible approach. I just thought that English being your strength, you would keep that and drop Maths Extension. It's cool, i get where you're coming from

LOL I'm not doing TERRIBLY BAD in Maths AND Maths Extension 1 that I need to even consider dropping Even though in my mind, maths is not my "strong point", I'm still coming top 15 in Mathematics Extension 1. But my personal goal is to further get closer to that 50 mark in the HSC external and try maintain an above 80% internal mark.

Likewise, if you want to compare my marks, although I'm ranking very well in English Extension 1, my assessment mark is not as strong as my Maths Extension 1 assessment mark. Likewise, I put a lot more effort and care into my maths, then English Extension 1 I can write an essay up and get a decent mark (just to survive in Preliminaries and test out how I should write), but I definitely put much more effort into practising past papers for maths! So! Thats how I concluded my decision

 

[WrittenLoveLetters]

That's excellent, my teacher also uses MIF at school for 2 & 3U, at home I help myself to textbooks such as Excel and Cambridge

I hate MIF. Homework is a breeze, but god, those exams must have been written by some butthurt Maths teacher LOL.
I'm having a hard time juggling Business Studies Accelerated and trying to keep up in English Extension 1 (so many bloody essays and texts), I can't wait until I don't have to worry about those two subjects, and can finally routinely just practise Cambridge on the side, ESPECIALLY for 3U.

 

[DatAtarLyfe]

LOL I'm not doing TERRIBLY BAD in Maths AND Maths Extension 1 that I need to even consider dropping Even though in my mind, maths is not my "strong point", I'm still coming top 15 in Mathematics Extension 1. But my personal goal is to further get closer to that 50 mark in the HSC external and try maintain an above 80% internal mark.

Likewise, if you want to compare my marks, although I'm ranking very well in English Extension 1, my assessment mark is not as strong as my Maths Extension 1 assessment mark. Likewise, I put a lot more effort and care into my maths, then English Extension 1 I can write an essay up and get a decent mark (just to survive in Preliminaries and test out how I should write), but I definitely put much more effort into practising past papers for maths! So! Thats how I concluded my decision

As a maths person, I wholeheartedly agree

 

[WrittenLoveLetters]

As a maths person, I wholeheartedly agree

LOL I honestly, use to despise maths, mainly because I was bad at it, like desperately bad, doing 5.3 in Year 9/10 was a pain because I would get 70% for most, if not, every exam. I'm happy I picked up Maths. Although I use to love love English, Maths makes so much more sense (credit to my absolutely amazing Maths teacher) and its so straight forward - practise, expose yourself to harder and different questions and you're on your way.

I heard you will be doing 4U! So good luck on that

 

[Speed6]

I hate MIF. Homework is a breeze, but god, those exams must have been written by some butthurt Maths teacher LOL.
I'm having a hard time juggling Business Studies Accelerated and trying to keep up in English Extension 1 (so many bloody essays and texts), I can't wait until I don't have to worry about those two subjects, and can finally routinely just practise Cambridge on the side, ESPECIALLY for 3U.

Hey I'll tell you something (I hope my maths teacher doesn't use BOS). When my maths teacher sets assessments tasks or exams in general, she uses the syllabus questions as examples throughout, but you know what she does? She changes the numbers around, so next time I have a maths assessment task, I'm going straight to the syllabus and writing the example questions down hahahaha.

 

[DatAtarLyfe]

LOL I honestly, use to despise maths, mainly because I was bad at it, like desperately bad, doing 5.3 in Year 9/10 was a pain because I would get 70% for most, if not, every exam. I'm happy I picked up Maths. Although I use to love love English, Maths makes so much more sense (credit to my absolutely amazing Maths teacher) and its so straight forward - practise, expose yourself to harder and different questions and you're on your way.

I heard you will be doing 4U! So good luck on that

Yep, the objectiveness of maths is beautiful.
Oh thanks, and good luck with your maths. If you ever need help with hw or stuff, I will gladly help

 

[DatAtarLyfe]

Hey I'll tell you something (I hope my maths teacher doesn't use BOS). When my maths teacher sets assessments tasks or exams in general, she uses the syllabus questions as examples throughout, but you know what she does? She changes the numbers around, so next time I have a maths assessment task, I'm going straight to the syllabus and writing the example questions down hahahaha.

Speed....I am your maths teacher

 

[Speed6]

Speed....I am your maths teacher

Go away Miss *******

 

[WrittenLoveLetters]

Hey I'll tell you something (I hope my maths teacher doesn't use BOS). When my maths teacher sets assessments tasks or exams in general, she uses the syllabus questions as examples throughout, but you know what she does? She changes the numbers around, so next time I have a maths assessment task, I'm going straight to the syllabus and writing the example questions down hahahaha.

Thats pretty smart...My teacher wrote the half yearly exam for Extension 1, she also gave us HSC practice questions. On the exam day, I saw the same format of the HSC questions in there and then I died a little. But I made it out with a 75%, I barely survived LOL

 

[Speed6]

75% is pretty damn good for preliminary MX1

 

[wiliaamnguuyen]

Hey , for you guys that do 4U, have you tried the excel book (by Patel)

Even though excel is not great in terms of hsc books in general, it's pretty good for simplicity . Whenever I find a topic hard a look at it for the basics and it does a pretty good job at explaining, though it lacks those q16 type problems.

Borrow it from a library or smth



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Lmao, I do questions from Patel's Excel when I'm using the restroom. It's good, but I usually use Terry Lee, it's so dam colourful

 

[Sien]

Lmao, I do questions from Patel's Excel when I'm using the restroom. It's good, but I usually use Terry Lee, it's so dam colourful

so intense bro

 

[WrittenLoveLetters]

75% is pretty damn good for preliminary MX1

Yeah, in my head, I think I did alright. But I would like to hit 80 - 85%. But man, thats hard

 

[Speed6]

Yeah, in my head, I think I did alright. But I would like to hit 80 - 85%. But man, thats hard

I think you can

 

[WrittenLoveLetters]

I think you can

Maybe maybe, I'll try my best

 

[Sien]

it's still prelim for another 3 months so yea

 

[WrittenLoveLetters]

it's still prelim for another 3 months so yea

Three months is actually not a lot of time if you think about it :C

 

[Sien]

Three months is actually not a lot of time if you think about it :C

...yea... i was trying to comfort myself

 

[WrittenLoveLetters]

...yea... i was trying to comfort myself

I mean, we still have Year 12, but man, even watching my boyfriend finish his last few months of high school makes me sad :c

 

[Sien]

I mean, we still have Year 12, but man, even watching my boyfriend finish his last few months of high school makes me sad :c

i'm not mentally ready for yr12 :c