study guides (excel etc) (1 Viewer)

[Rachael325]

Hey im just starting year 12 and what does everyone think about study guides like excel for example. Are they worth getting? And which brand is the best. Also which subjects do u think study guides would be helpful in? I do 2u maths, adv english, french, economics and pdhpe. Thanks

 

[Wild Dan Hibiki]

maths excel = good
economics = bad

AFAIK

 

[Ellie-Bee]

adv. english is good - depending on what texts you're doing!

 

[Sarah168]

HAHAHA excel for adv english...HAHAHA . I dont think so.

 

[Wild Dan Hibiki]

HAHAHA excel for adv english...HAHAHA . I dont think so.

lol same goes for standard.

how about those individual text study guides? meh screw it only 5-7 days till english

 

[withoutaface]

Year 12 Lesson #1: Excel bad, Macquarie good.

 

[jhakka]

The only Excel I use is Maths, and that's just for the exercises.

 

[miss_pie]

i used those little excel english books at the beginning of a unit when our teacher would just have us aimlessly read the text and i wanted 2 know what bits of the text i was actually meant to be picking up on. other than that i haven't looked at them since

 

[dark`secrets]

i use excel for maths and sdd

the phoenix for 2U is pretty good.

 

[mishka]

i use excel for maths, comm/fam and society. spanish doesn't have one (or need one) and after seeing the english one, i wouldn't bother. our english teachers photocopy stuff out of them anyway.

i think the only language courses that have excel guides are japanese and latin.. i'm pretty sure there's none for french.

 

[gordo]

i used excel for physics
and for circle gemoetry for extn 1 maths

thats about it mate

 

[neo o]

Cribs/Books are crap unless they are exercise books with questions and worked answers for sciences and maths.

 

[Wild Dan Hibiki]

oh yeah the excel sdd book is ok, it has some nice exercises with solutions. but for content i prefer samuel davis' book

 

[VieTz_88]

Year 12 Lesson #1: Excel bad, Macquarie good.

How is excel bad? Have you used S.K Patel's 4uMaths book yet> Not all Excel books are bad its not like they're all written by the same authors.

 

[Tuna]

How is excel bad? Have you used S.K Patel's 4uMaths book yet> Not all Excel books are bad its not like they're all written by the same authors.

It was for other subjects not 4U. They have not mentioned 4U

 

[Sickle]

I find that only the Excel "Revise in a month" books are good and the specific module books for English. Otherwise I'd go for Maquarie.

 

[ToO LaZy ^*]

macquarie for business
get smart for eco

excel books are all jiberish (especially business)

 

[mack]

I also find excel books are rather summarised. They are good if you already have a solid body of notes, but not if you learn solely from them. Especially economics.

 

[withoutaface]

How is excel bad? Have you used S.K Patel's 4uMaths book yet> Not all Excel books are bad its not like they're all written by the same authors.

Yes I have. I didn't find it to have any significant advantage over cambridge. I couldn't understand the explanations in either of them. The only way I learn is by doing the exercises, and cambridge has better questions, so it is better.

 

[dark`secrets]

oh yeah the excel sdd book is ok, it has some nice exercises with solutions. but for content i prefer samuel davis' book

that's because sam d's book is a textbook while the excel is for revision