resc0g1tans Hi g46! My exam preparation was mainly doing practice exams haha, I made an effort to prioritise the more difficult ones like MAV rather than grind many easier insight or hefferman exams. I did this because I felt as if many MAV questions were separators which would be good to practice on since I was aiming for a high score in methods.

In relation to your question about a bound reference, I made mine throughout the year, it acted like a consolidation tool the day after learning the content in class. However, this is a personal preference only I do not recommend using it as a form of sac/exam revision, I believe you should so strongly know your content already before any sac/by the end of the year, that you do not need to touch your bound reference at all during any assessment. (Again this is my personal opinion and if using bound ref for revision is the best for you go with it!!) Rather than doing bound ref, I recommend exposing yourself to as many questions as possible for exam/sac prep.

Haha I'm not too sure about how to make a good bound ref, but I think its important for you to clearly know where your notes are in case you do want to use it as revision. Also as some of my friends have done, put errors/difficult questions in it in case they pop up again on an assessment.

Good luck with methods next yr! And if you have any more questions feel free to send them to me 🙂 Hope this helps!

    Nice stuff! How long would you say you devoted time into methods in comparison to your other subjects? Was it an even spread or did you have more of an emphasis on methods?

      Nick Hey Nick! I would say I devoted a decent amount of time to methods, I think I dedicated more time to chem and spesh, but tbh I can't really remember anymore lol since the year went by so fast 😅 I think it was a even spread for everything except accounting(which I knew would be my bottom subject so neglected it) and english(ironically since it had to be in my top 4, and yes i do regret this 😅 a LOT)

        congrats on the amazing mark, what do you think was the hardest topic in methods and also when did you start practice exams? Also what textbook did your school use? What were your sac marks throughout the year

          chemistry1111 Haha thanks!

          Hardest topic: I didn't feel as if any of the topics themselves were very hard, but I out of all the topics I found understanding calculus to be the most difficult despite the operations you do being the easiest because it can be rote learned

          practice exams: I started practice exams in exam conditions one month and a half before the actual exam

          textbook: school used Cambridge

          sac marks: My overall sac average was 96%, however, I would like to stress that my sacs will be a different difficulty to those at your school, and therefore, this is not a great indicator of what score you will need to achieve to get a good final sac score /100 as your sacs could either be easier or harder than mine.

            weetbixandhoney
            Hahaha you basically already answered your own question for me! Yeh, I focused on understanding concepts and then applying them through practice exam questions, however I avoided vcaa and mav questions, and used those exams for actual practice exams near the end of the year.

            For the summer holidays, I recommend going a bit ahead and learning some of the 3&4 content which was not in 1&2, for example integrating to logs. Also you guys have a new study design, so I would recommend going to the newly added content first and trying to wrap your head around them, your teacher may not be able to teach it that well as they will be unfamiliar with it as well, so you might have to do some self learning.

              Congratulations!
              Just wondering what exercises you did? Any books to recommend?

                ram Hm, I did mostly practice exam questions from the "easy" exams. Uhhhhh, I didn't really use any textbooks other than the cambridge one lol, but i have heard good things about atar notes methods book as well as checkpoints, although I personally did not use these myself

                apologies for such a vague reply :/

                    a month later

                    hi!!

                    first of all, that is a huge achievement and you must have worked so hard for it. i wanted to ask if you have been always good at math before picking methods or did you study consistently until you got a hang of it? also, for SACs, how do you revise for them? did your school give out past practice SACs or was there an external website or resource you used?

                    sorry for the load of questions lol i'm aiming for a 45+ study score for methods in year 12, just want a little bit of guidance

                      rumi1i1i1 I guess I was good in math, but I wasn't the greatest either at the start of year 11. I'll mainly apply this to probability because I was the weakest there and I often found myself being frustrated and hating it until like year 12.

                      But then yeh, ig i did that you said and I really tried to understand the ideas/concepts in probability and eventually it went from a struggle to a breeze in the exam. So if you feel like you're not confident in something, I suggest, rather than just throwing it away or rote learning, really try and understand the underlying ideas.

                      In regards to your question about SACs, I did a few questions from "easy" practice exams sort of like to practice ig lol, but I only used up my school's prac sacs like a few days before the actual sac(because I didn't get many only like 2 per sac). And I mainly revised for sacs by doing practice questions.

                      Hehe external resource 😅 the one i got a lot of trial papers from got taken down ;-; this year.... (rip vcetextbooksxyz 😔 )

                      And dw about asking this many questions its fine!! 😃 best of luck in year 12!

                        did you make a goal to stay ahead a certain amount of exercises (e.g. being two exercises ahead of the class). and did you read the class content before it was explained by a teacher in class? if so, did you just read about it or read and take notes?

                          asytiopokx Hm, I didn't really have a goal or anything, but since I did some work over the summer break I was already ahead from the very start and I just continued learning more new stuff myself from there. So yep, ig I did read the content before it was explained in class by the teacher 🙂 I didn't really write notes because i mainly consolidated my knowledge through practice questions + watching some youtube videos on them, but never actually like wrote notes myself

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