Standard of Year 10 Mathematics required to succeed in HSC Mathematics (1 Viewer)

[Schoey93]

Hello all,

Basically all I want to know now is what the title says: what is the minimum standard expected of students entering the Prelim Mathematics course?

I'm in Year 10, I study Mathematics Stage 5.3 and I average about 70%. Would I do okay in Prelim and HSC Maths (2 unit)?

By "okay" I mean, say, an average of about 90% in school-based assessment, working at the best of my ability, would this be achievable or am I too far behind to catch up?

Thank you.

 

[boxhunter91]

Maths is alot of effort and practice. I found year 11 harder then year 12. Even though all the stuff in year 12 is quite difficult it is quite easy follow and understand. Do not study from your just school text book. Study from didnt exams. I made that mistake in year 11 and was doing poorly. I mean poorly like failing. Now i came first out of all 2 unit people and 6th overall with 5 extension people in front of me. So all in all if you put the effort in from the get go you can do it. And yeh i did 5.3

 

[Schoey93]

Maths is alot of effort and practice. I found year 11 harder then year 12. Even though all the stuff in year 12 is quite difficult it is quite easy follow and understand. Do not study from your just school text book. Study from didnt exams. I made that mistake in year 11 and was doing poorly. I mean poorly like failing. Now i came first out of all 2 unit people and 6th overall with 5 extension people in front of me. So all in all if you put the effort in from the get go you can do it. And yeh i did 5.3

Thank you, that's good to know. If I find Year 11 Maths difficult, I'll just ask my teacher where I can get some past prelim papers to practice, so that I don't make the same mistake as you (rote learning from the textbook).

Does HSC Maths include exam questions such as "derive the formula for the area of a trapezium, A = h/2 (a+b)." Or is this question, and all derivation questions, exclusive to Mathematics Extension 2? Because I love deriving formulas (lol... I'm such a nerd) ... I even know how the quadratic formula is derived (in short, by completing the square, of course).

So you don't need to be naturally gifted to succeed in this course - you just need to work hard?

 

[jet]

We derived the quadratic formula in 5.3 as well.

With 2 unit, I would say that the emphasis isn't necessarily on proof, rather, on the use of the knowledge. In the syllabus, there are certain theorems etc. that teachers are required to prove for us, and we need to be able to reproduce them in the exams.

Though, to a certain extent, proofs are somewhat 'restricted' in a sense to 3u and 4u.

And, whilst yes, natural gift is helpful, I don't think it's essential to do well in 2u.

 

[ashllis92]

Working had will help you but working smart will help you a lot more. Make sure you're doing past papers and getting questions from all sorts of places.

 

[ninetypercent]

my school said that an A or B in 5.3 Mathematics should be sufficient for 3 unit Mathematics. Since you're getting 70% in 5.3, I think you'd do well in 2 unit Mathematics.

2 unit maths is more knowledge based. as long as you know all your concepts and formulas, there's nothing stopping you from getting 90%. Only the last two questions in a two unit hsc exam require actual thinking... well that's my opinion

 

[Cloesd]

Hello all,

Basically all I want to know now is what the title says: what is the minimum standard expected of students entering the Prelim Mathematics course?

I'm in Year 10, I study Mathematics Stage 5.3 and I average about 70%. Would I do okay in Prelim and HSC Maths (2 unit)?

By "okay" I mean, say, an average of about 90% in school-based assessment, working at the best of my ability, would this be achievable or am I too far behind to catch up?

Thank you.

2Units easy. Basically, you could get 90% in every exam by following these rules

1) Don't be a retard
2) Revise the work atleast a couple of times a week.

 

[Finx]

I got 96 in my School Certificate for maths, and my report mark for year 12 2u maths was 90. If you keep it up, you'd need at least 92+ to do "well" in 2u year 12.