Am I cooked for 3U Math? (1 Viewer)

[ajunipertree]

Hey all, I recently posted a thread asking for advice on whether to drop Math Ext 1 after my horrendous prelim results. I ended up keeping it, and now that Year 12 has started I have a few worries. For starters, I did not lock in during holidays when I said I would review my weak topics (inverse trig, polynomials, graphing and probably others). I was wondering whether prelim topics are really necessary to do well in Year 12? Would it be wise to start fresh, pay attention in class from now on and spend my time doing practice for the HSC course, or should I dedicate more time to understanding my worst topics from Y11? Or should I just drop Ext1 entirely? I'm just unsure if I have a poor foundation because I'm lacking skills in most of the prelim course.

 

[coolcat6778]

the content isn't hard but the exams are

 

[samdaman33]

Hey all, I recently posted a thread asking for advice on whether to drop Math Ext 1 after my horrendous prelim results. I ended up keeping it, and now that Year 12 has started I have a few worries. For starters, I did not lock in during holidays when I said I would review my weak topics (inverse trig, polynomials, graphing and probably others). I was wondering whether prelim topics are really necessary to do well in Year 12? Would it be wise to start fresh, pay attention in class from now on and spend my time doing practice for the HSC course, or should I dedicate more time to understanding my worst topics from Y11? Or should I just drop Ext1 entirely? I'm just unsure if I have a poor foundation because I'm lacking skills in most of the prelim course.

you do need to know all of the year 11 stuff for the hsc because they can specifically examine it but you can deal with that closer to the HSC, but for now it would be best to focus on graphing and inverse trig because they come up in other topics
I don't think you should drop 3 unit because it scales so well and it also makes you so much better at 2 unit as well because the extra practice and problem solving helps

 

[ajunipertree]

you do need to know all of the year 11 stuff for the hsc because they can specifically examine it but you can deal with that closer to the HSC, but for now it would be best to focus on graphing and inverse trig because they come up in other topics
I don't think you should drop 3 unit because it scales so well and it also makes you so much better at 2 unit as well because the extra practice and problem solving helps

the content isn't hard but the exams are

Okay tysm, I figured graphing was pretty important anyway. Thanks for the answers