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VCE General & Further Maths Question Thread!
« on: January 08, 2013, 01:23:56 pm »
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VCE GENERAL & FURTHER MATHS Q&A THREAD

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What is this thread for?
If you have general questions about the VCE General or Further Maths course or how to improve in certain areas, this is the place to ask!


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Everyone is welcome to contribute; even if you're unsure of yourself, providing different perspectives is incredibly valuable.

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I don't see why the Further kids have to miss out on their own question thread! Post anything you're stuck with here and we'll try our best to help you out.

It might be a good idea to sticky this thread, just like the Methods and Specialist ones.
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Re: VCE Further Maths Question Thread!
« Reply #1 on: January 08, 2013, 08:35:58 pm »
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It might be a good idea to sticky this thread, just like the Methods and Specialist ones.
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« Reply #2 on: January 13, 2013, 02:43:54 pm »
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Does anyone have any experience with Networks? I had a look over some exams and didn't seem to like it. The other two Modules are Graphs & Relations and Matrices. I'm considering taking up Number Patterns instead.

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« Reply #3 on: January 13, 2013, 02:45:28 pm »
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Does anyone have any experience with Networks? I had a look over some exams and didn't seem to like it. The other two Modules are Graphs & Relations and Matrices. I'm considering taking up Number Patterns instead.
I'm not that great at Math but Networks is my jam.

edit: I also absolutely hated Networks until the end of exam revision when I fully understood the logic behind it. Then it was like "kewwwwwl"
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Re: VCE Further Maths Question Thread!
« Reply #4 on: January 13, 2013, 03:19:27 pm »
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Yeah, the networks module is interesting, but I do not recommend it. It's quite possibly less straight forward than the other modules.
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Re: VCE Further Maths Question Thread!
« Reply #5 on: January 13, 2013, 05:00:58 pm »
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Does anyone have any experience with Networks? I had a look over some exams and didn't seem to like it. The other two Modules are Graphs & Relations and Matrices. I'm considering taking up Number Patterns instead.
If you did sequences and series in GMA then would basically understand most of the module already. You'd definitely be better off doing number patterns instead of networks if that was the case.
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« Reply #6 on: January 13, 2013, 10:21:08 pm »
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I did, and I quite liked sequences and series.

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Re: VCE Further Maths Question Thread!
« Reply #7 on: January 21, 2013, 12:17:01 pm »
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What modules is everyone doing?

I'm doing:
1) Number Patterns
2) Graphs and Relations
3) Matrices

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« Reply #8 on: January 30, 2013, 10:05:42 pm »
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Is it necessary to do EVERY single question in the textbook? My teacher seems to think so  ::)

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Re: VCE Further Maths Question Thread!
« Reply #9 on: January 30, 2013, 10:17:26 pm »
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Is it necessary to do EVERY single question in the textbook?

It's probably not necessary, but that's what I did, just to satisfy my OCD. :P
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« Reply #10 on: January 31, 2013, 06:14:45 pm »
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Is it necessary to do EVERY single question in the textbook? My teacher seems to think so  ::)

Last year our teacher gave us a list of "required questions to complete". It probably isn't necessary to do them all, but if you start picking and choosing, you'll probably get to a stage where you only do one question. Perhaps allocate 30 minutes where you do every second question, and if you get that done, start working through the ones you skipped until the time is up. :)
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Re: VCE Further Maths Question Thread!
« Reply #11 on: February 03, 2013, 01:01:36 am »
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What modules is everyone doing?

I'm doing:
1) Number Patterns
2) Graphs and Relations
3) Matrices

Mine are
1) Number Patterns
2) Geo & Trig
3) Networks

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« Reply #12 on: February 03, 2013, 03:50:02 pm »
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What modules is everyone doing?

I'm doing:
1) Number Patterns
2) Graphs and Relations
3) Matrices

Trig, linear, matrices

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« Reply #13 on: February 17, 2013, 06:15:19 pm »
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Can past students give some tips on how to minimise mistakes in Graphs & Relations?

I find it quite straightforward, but it is easy to slip up in linear programming (especially when writing the constraints). Any suggestions to address this issue?

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Re: VCE Further Maths Question Thread!
« Reply #14 on: February 17, 2013, 06:34:01 pm »
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Practice usually helps with finding constraints. It's an issue even strong students have initially, so don't worry too much about it. What I'd be more concerned about is not forgetting to use a dashed line for certain inequalities.
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