fitzpatrick VS Coronous VS cambridge (1 Viewer)

[Yaz88]

hey guys jst wanted 2 no in ur opinon which book is the best for preparing for the hsc.........

 

[firehose]

Fitzpatrick but textbooks are for learning, for night-before revision do a test paper

 

[zenger69]

New Senior 3U Maths is good for doing some harder exercise questions rather than Cambridge which is excessively hard.

But use Phoenix HSC MAths Topic by Topic which has collected HSC exam style questions and placed them in topic by topic. When preparing for the HSC and do those questions several times.

Hope it helps.....

 

[withoutaface]

Doesn't matter which. So long as you can understand the concepts you can find as many challenging concepts as you like in past papers.

 

[tennille]

I remember I used that old pink Coroneos book. It was so ugly.

But it helped me a lot.

 

[goan_crazy]

nice av tennile!
anyways maths in focus is not here
thats the text our skool uses

 

[*sarah*]

argh stay away from coroneous - it gives u a headache just looking at it

 

[alien]

we had maths in focus and coroneos, and heaps more but they were the only ones i used. best bet is to do questions from both.

 

[AntiHyper]

I have cambridge book

 

[illucid]

the book by Mr. and Mrs. Arnold..... Mrs. Arnold is my 4u teacher at school so its only logical here.

 

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Jones and Couchman is pretty good

but i don't really see the point of using cambridge for 2u level
cambridge owns in 4u, but i don't think you need that kinda of level of practice to really ace 2u, just practice as much exam type questions as u can and you are set

 

[illucid]

i agree with the 2u thing... Any 2u work i do i end up going to do exam style questions for practice. The text book isn't *that* important.

 

[sladehk]

all you need is fitz and past exams

 

[**freakstar87**]

i can only say fitzpatrck is the better txtbook cos it has alright questions and exercises and good examples. never used coroneos as a txtbook before but i have borrowed a past hsc maths exam booklet (from 1980-1993) by coroneos which seems alright but the font is crap. cambridge has shit hard questions and the examples weren't very helpful.

 

[sladehk]

are the "shit hard questions" explained?

 

[**freakstar87**]

if you're saying worked solutions then...no worked solutions available
but then fitzpatrick doesn't have worked solutions either but at least most of the questions make some sense. fitz also has revision exercises and practice exam questions at the back of the book whereas cambridge doesn't have any practice exams but it does have alot of hard and impossibly difficult questions. just my opinion.

edit: i would still say use it as it can be useful for the equally shit hard questions 8-10 in the exam paper. i'm still using fitzpatrick, some maths in focus exercises, j&c and cambridge. but in terms of which one i favour the most between fitz, cambridge and coroneos, it would have to be fitz for the good examples, revision exercises and practice test papers.

 

[Will_Sparky]

I liked Fitzpatrick 'cause it was slightly more challenging than Jones and Couchman, our other text, which was good to start with. I like Coroneous as well. Nice to do work outta there in the weeks leading up to exams.

 

[ameh]

why cant u use all of them?


i like fitzy

 

[acmilan]

I had fitzpatrick but rarely used it. It was crap at explaining almost everything. Most of the times we were learning topics i didnt really do any questions from the book, only occassionally. Most of my work came from past papers.

 

[sladehk]

why cant u use all of them?

how can you have time to use them all?