Methods assumed knowledge

[alibaba02]

Hi guys I'm doing maths methods for year 12 and I was just wondering if their was any assumed knowledge we need to know for the subject. As in let's say you were taking a test for logarithms but in one of the questions it also ask you to find an area of a square.

[Bri MT]

Hi,

Welcome to the forums!

Which curriculum/state is this about?

[alibaba02]

Its QCE

[Amity H]

It may be too late for you but it might help someone else: basically what I’ve been told for QCE Methods is that everything builds upon itself. So if you’re doing unit 3 it may have stuff that you learnt in unit 1, same as all maths has times tables that you learnt in grade 3 or whatever. The externals won’t specifically ask questions about unit 1 or 2 content, but you may need to use a process or formula you learnt in yr 11 (units 1 and 2) to answer a more complicated question from unit 3 or 4.

Actual example: recently we did Unit 4 Topic 1: further differentiation and applications 3, which is about the second derivative so quite obviously you need to understand how to differentiate, which we learnt somewhere back in unit 1 or 2.

Hope that helps someone!

[GreenNinja]

I was just about to post a question regarding this topic when I spooted this thread .

Your above comments quite cleared many of my questions 

But, I am still confused on whether topics like Arrangments and Combinations which are only talked in Unit 1 & 2, are these topics porbably to be assesed in unit 3 and 4 exams even thought they are irrevelant to unit 3 and 4 (in the externals as well)?

Similar to this, there are things like y^=x which we are required to solve and graph in u1&2 which don't appear in u3&4. Are these also assesed in the externals?

Thanks,
Techy