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The Coroneos 3U Textbook is old, but is it still applicable to today's Extension Course? And is the Coroneos Textbook worth buying?

Is the Pheonix 3U Textbook a combination of past papers or is it like a regular math textbook?

If these questions could be answered, that would really help - thanks!
 

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Pheonix is a combination of past paper questions. Our school has the 1990-1999 version, not sure if it has been updated.

Coroneos is essentially a bunch of (I'm assuming) quality questions they may be worth your investment as well.

Personally I do not own either, but I do use the Pheonix one from school (Today in fact!)
 

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Pheonix is a combination of past paper questions. Our school has the 1990-1999 version, not sure if it has been updated.

Coroneos is essentially a bunch of (I'm assuming) quality questions they may be worth your investment as well.

Personally I do not own either, but I do use the Pheonix one from school (Today in fact!)
Thank you!
 

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Coroneos is an amazing textbook. It's not just the good questions, the number and quality of worked solutions is amazing, and it's well worth the investment IF you teach yourself a lot of topics.

If you have a great teacher, just stick to your current textbook (whatever it is), and spend your time doing past papers and past paper questions.
 

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The Coroneos 3U Textbook is old, but is it still applicable to today's Extension Course? And is the Coroneos Textbook worth buying?

Is the Pheonix 3U Textbook a combination of past papers or is it like a regular math textbook?

If these questions could be answered, that would really help - thanks!
Coroneos <3
 

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Coroneos is an amazing textbook. It's not just the good questions, the number and quality of worked solutions is amazing, and it's well worth the investment IF you teach yourself a lot of topics.

If you have a great teacher, just stick to your current textbook (whatever it is), and spend your time doing past papers and past paper questions.
Thanks for your response! I really just want to do more problems, so I can earn better marks than everyone else. My teacher is okay I guess, but I may invest in a Coroneus Textbook anyways.
 

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then you should spend your time doing past paper questions.

use a tool like greenshot to comb through past papers - there are 1000s available online nowadays - and screenshot --> paste into word document. categorise questions into topics etc.

additional benefit: you can look at past papers which have worked solutions only, so you'll have the solutions as well in case you need help.

imo: use textbooks to learn material, then forget the textbook and just do past paper questions.

/2c
 

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