What would be the best textbooks to use when preparing for the 4U exam? (2 Viewers)

[Vietorious]

What would be the best textbooks to use when preparing for the 4U exam?

 

[Supra]

mansw past paper book
arnold
lee
coroneos

depends which topics u need improvement

 

[grimreaper]

dont use textbooks to prepare for the exam... use past papers

 

[prsce24]

there is no good book for 4u at all
seriously
everyone says arnold is good but i reckon its shit

 

[blackfriday]

arnold has hard questions but shit explanation. explanation is good in excel/patel but the questions are elementary.

 

[Templar]

No point in using textbooks. Do as many past papers as possible (unless you're trying to cram the night before).

 

[Affinity]

whatever you are comfortable with... I think cambridge/arnold is quite good.

 

[redruM]

learn content from at least 2 sources...arnold + fitz/excel
then past papers, as much as you can.

 

[:: ck ::]

well i used terry lee + cambridge + excel and occasionally coroneous

terry lee has some shit hard questions, as with cambridge ... which im sure u wont get in the hsc (mainly referring to the conics)

 

[hessie]

i used lee during the year and excel before tests, lee is pretty shit on explanation of concepts and a few of the questions are screwy but it ain't too bad.

 

[withoutaface]

Textbook: none, you should already know the content by the time you're being tested on it.

Use a tonne of past papers. Sources such as MANSW and Coroneos books, fourunitmaths.cjb.net, teacher, back of Cambridge also has some specimen papers.

 

[Affinity]

Try to get to the level where you can work things out in your head

 

[§eraphim]

i thought terry lee was quite good. one of the better books.

 

[sydneyphoenix]

I have Cambridge and Fitzpatrick, and am thinking of buying excel as well.
Sorry, I've never heard of Terry Lee... is it a good source?
And does anyone know where to get recent 4U past papers with solution? cause they obviously don't have it on Success One series. I wonder why.

 

[withoutaface]

Coroneos past papers, should be able to find them at Dymocks or whereever.

 

[Shuter]

Avoid anytihng by Patel, he is so shit at explaining.

 

[big penguin]

Avoid anytihng by Patel, he is so shit at explaining.

I dunno...

I thought patel was pretty good at explaining things, with good layout and easy to understand (this is the textbook not the excel thing)

fitz was pathetic at explaining, guys just give a whole load of (some impossible) exercises

and arnold

its a bit cluttered isn't it? their explanations arent that great either

 

[Slidey]

I agree. I think Patel's book is great. Not his Excel one, but his Foundations one.

It's certainly better than Fitzpatrick, though I do exercises from both, because they both seem to miss things now and then.

But Cambridge sounds good, so I'll buy it soon.

As for studying for exams - that's easy: past papers.

 

[Captain pi]

I'd advise Coroneos and Arnold.

The key is to just do lots of questions. But HSC exam questions are the best questions to do.

You should also study the marking guidelines and the markers' reports found at the Board of Studies Website alongside the past exams.

 

[Slidey]

Coroneos past papers are good. His books are a bit confusing, though - probably because of the formatting and the things which aren't in the syllabus... and maybe also because of the fact that you need to buy a supplement to have a full 4u textbook.