I am quite ready for the exams and I think it is not nice to have a tutor for mathematics because I personally want to think about complex concepts by myself and then absorb them. I studied this course all the time and I have purchased Parabola magazine everytime UNSW published it and I have done those questions that are related to harder 3 unit. I have done all most of the recent trial and HSC papers avaliable at Buchanan site. By the way in my graduation my teacher gave me a copy of 3 unit harder questions combined from HSC and catholic. Mechanics is quite easy and you just need to know your formulas and know how to resolve forces. For first 6 questions, generally if you are familar with those questions, you do not to think aboutthem but for the 2 last questions thinking before putting your pen on the paper is really important. I am going to take a stopwatch withmyself, during 5 minutes reading time i just want to have a quick look at first 6 question maybe about 2 minutes and the remaining 3 minutes, i would think the approach of solving questions 7 and 8.and finally during writing time i need to finish first 6 questions in 1.5 hour max and i would try the rest of the questions.
I am sure that if each one of you know your basics fluently and then look at the questions logically and do not accepting assumptions without logic, then everyone is going to get an excellent mark. and Algebra is not the first choice in conics. sometimes you look at the question and firstly you may use algebra to solve the problem but if you think about the question you could find easier ways. for example an ellipse whose center is not 0 intersects the yand x axis at A,B,C,D then you need to show OA.OB=Oc.OD obviously the best way of solving this is the ratio between the roots. I do not think 10 seconds of thinking about a question would waste much time.
For today and tommorow I am going to read 50 HSc tips and tricks by Gaha, Hopefully I will finish by tommorow and then a bit of inequalities.