• Congratulations to the Class of 2024 on your results!
    Let us know how you went here
    Got a question about your uni preferences? Ask us here

Can I use Extension 1 methods in the 2 unit exam? (1 Viewer)

tommykins

i am number -e^i*pi
Joined
Feb 18, 2007
Messages
5,730
Gender
Male
HSC
2008
回复: Can I use Extension 1 methods in the 2 unit exam?

I don't see why not, unless they outline that you must you a specific method.

I can't see a question where you'd opt 3unit knowledge over 2unit?

Care to provide an example please?
 

FLYHAWK14

Member
Joined
Sep 25, 2007
Messages
305
Gender
Male
HSC
N/A
Re: 回复: Can I use Extension 1 methods in the 2 unit exam?

tommykins said:
I don't see why not, unless they outline that you must you a specific method.

I can't see a question where you'd opt 3unit knowledge over 2unit?

Care to provide an example please?
Probably Intergration by Substitution, in some cases.
 

tommykins

i am number -e^i*pi
Joined
Feb 18, 2007
Messages
5,730
Gender
Male
HSC
2008
回复: Re: 回复: Can I use Extension 1 methods in the 2 unit exam?

FLYHAWK14 said:
Probably Intergration by Substitution, in some cases.
TBH i've never witnessed a 2u integral that needs substitution.

Although I have seen some stuff that required 4u knowledge - ie. integrate ln x.
 

Iruka

Member
Joined
Jan 25, 2006
Messages
544
Gender
Undisclosed
HSC
N/A
A question like that would generally have some sort of lead in, though.

Like: differentiate xlnx.

They would actually be trying to test if you understand that differentiation and integration are almost inverses of each other.

I think there is no reason why you couldn't use MX1 techniques in 2 unit. But you should be able to do the questions without using them.
 

tommykins

i am number -e^i*pi
Joined
Feb 18, 2007
Messages
5,730
Gender
Male
HSC
2008
回复: Re: Can I use Extension 1 methods in the 2 unit exam?

Iruka said:
A question like that would generally have some sort of lead in, though.

Like: differentiate xlnx.

They would actually be trying to test if you understand that differentiation and integration are almost inverses of each other.

I think there is no reason why you couldn't use MX1 techniques in 2 unit. But you should be able to do the questions without using them.
Yeah it would, although the papers I saw did not have lead in questions.

I'd have no idea how to solve it with 2u knowledge.
 

Just.Snaz

Member
Joined
Jun 11, 2008
Messages
300
Gender
Female
HSC
2008
FLYHAWK14 said:
What the title says.
Yes you can. You can do whatever you want as long as the question doesn't specify.

However, in the HSC, I highly doubt they'll give a question that might advantage the people doing 3 unit over the people doing only 2.
 

Poad

Member
Joined
Oct 17, 2007
Messages
188
Gender
Male
HSC
2008
Re: 回复: Re: Can I use Extension 1 methods in the 2 unit exam?

tommykins said:
Yeah it would, although the papers I saw did not have lead in questions.

I'd have no idea how to solve it with 2u knowledge.
Eh, are you sure? I've never seen anything like it. :\
 

tommykins

i am number -e^i*pi
Joined
Feb 18, 2007
Messages
5,730
Gender
Male
HSC
2008
Re: 回复: Re: Can I use Extension 1 methods in the 2 unit exam?

Poad said:
Eh, are you sure? I've never seen anything like it. :\
It was in my mates half yearly paper, my schools half yearly paper and a few others.

Probably just a one off q.
 

wendus

krawr.
Joined
Mar 26, 2007
Messages
653
Gender
Female
HSC
2008
Re: 回复: Re: Can I use Extension 1 methods in the 2 unit exam?

i wouldn't recommend using 3u methods for 2u papers unless you're so so desperate.

and they wouldn't give you a question requiring 3u knowledge in a 2u papers anyway. you should be able to solve all 2u questions using 2u methods.
 

Aaron.Judd

Member
Joined
Aug 20, 2008
Messages
372
Gender
Male
HSC
2008
Re: 回复: Re: Can I use Extension 1 methods in the 2 unit exam?

Yes, you are permitted to, although there is normally a quicker, easier way to do it using 2 Unit methods.
 

Iruka

Member
Joined
Jan 25, 2006
Messages
544
Gender
Undisclosed
HSC
N/A
Re: 回复: Re: Can I use Extension 1 methods in the 2 unit exam?

tommykins said:
It was in my mates half yearly paper, my schools half yearly paper and a few others.

Probably just a one off q.
Was it a definite or indefinite integral?

If it was a definite integral, you can work it out by using the fact that exp and log are inverses of each other, so you integrate x=e^y along the y-axis and then subtract this area from the rectangle that you can make using the limits of integration (I hope that made sense, it would be easier to explain with a picture.)

That's about the only way that I can think of using 2-unit techniques.

In some past HSC papers they also use integrals like that to test numerical integration (Simpson's or trapezoidal rule). But of course, in that case, it should be clear from the question what they're asking.
 

conics2008

Active Member
Joined
Mar 26, 2008
Messages
1,228
Gender
Male
HSC
2005
Re: 回复: Re: Can I use Extension 1 methods in the 2 unit exam?

you know u are allowed to and you wont get mark down for it but your just complicating the process of finddin the answer..

you should know for a fact that they are not expecting you to use it.. ill give you an example..

I think this came in the exam in the 3unit one...

it said S from 1 to 0 cos^-1(x)

keep in mind this is inverse.. find the area from 1 to 0

using 3unit knowledge NOT 4unit...
 

doink

Clone
Joined
Jun 26, 2006
Messages
474
Gender
Male
HSC
2007
those 3u questions that want you to find area under lnx usually want you to transfer limits to y axis and use e^x
 

Users Who Are Viewing This Thread (Users: 0, Guests: 1)

Top