I am planning to do Ext 2 math next term (year 11 -> year 12).

My teacher was telling me that I wont be attending the advanced classes, and while the advanced classes are running, i am in another class doing ext 2 math. Is this normal? Im just worried that if i dont have the right foundation, I will heavily struggle with ext 2. In addition my school barely has given me any classes for ext 1 this year, and are refusing to give me extra classes, at the teachers expense (the teacher is happy to come early or stay late, but the school is one some bs saying that she isnt). Will i have 6 units worth of classes, and 4 actual unit? I know every school is different, but what is it normally like?

I have just skimmed over the table of contents for the ext 2 cambridge textbook and I have seen some notes, and It kinda looks like harder module 2 physics. I am rigth on this?

    It varies from school to school as you said. For example, I've seen some schools pull students out of the Adv class, and they'll learn the Adv content in their MX2 class at a faster pace. (Typically, schools know that you don't yet have the year 12 Adv content in your head yet.)

    (My school's case was: The MX1 class taught both the Adv and MX1 content. MX2 students were kept in there to learn both Adv and MX1. A separate set of classes, in our case before-school classes, were allocated for MX2 specific. On the other hand, I also don't know of any selective schools that run on this model - but then again I'm too old to comment.)

    School-specific issues are kinda hard to address unfortunately.

      ruiace thankyou so much! Im just kinda worried because my morning classes arent on paper, meaning that my teacher just tells the class to come early Wednesday and thursday morning to catch up, because my teacher knows that my school isnt giving my class enough classes. Ill ask my deputy this week, but im more than certain i wont get any more than 1 units worth of classes for both ext 1 and 2 (even though thats against nesa -_-)

          fx82au Will comment: for probably 12 weeks or so it wasn't on paper for me either, despite my classes being before-school. In my case though, I think I brushed it off as "eh they just can't fit it on the system", and was a little surprised when eventually they did.

          (But by having said that, MX1 for us was not before-school; that was successfully timetabled in.)

            fx82au
            Hi there,
            I'm not a student that does extension 2 maths, but most of my friends do, and from what I hear, they are not offered math advanced classes and it's not too necessary for extension 2 (they also don't do advanced math assignments and don't study for the tests either, they've put all their focus into ext 1&2 maths and are doing quite well - ranked 1,3&4 among 18 students). If you are struggling with the course, its better to drop to extension1 and do better instead.
            Hope this helps, Cheers

                NS-HSC12 im doing quite well in both adv and ext 1. its just that im worried that if i dontlearn the absolute basics taught in year 12 adv, ill struggle with ext 2. consider integration: the absolute basics are taught in adv, and harder questions are tested on in ext 2.

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