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You'll definitely learn things more rigorously and properly through the pre-honours stream. I personally loved the pre-honours stream (especially 3rd year) because I'm mathematically orientated. It was a WAM booster for me because of its higher mathematical rigour.

There are heaps of things that a Finance major (in a Commerce degree) does not teach you about in relation to what you learn in IB. From the IB friends I have (mainly in the Corporate/M&A space), the only thing they learnt in their Finance major that was relevant to their role in IB was the...

Just also be wary that the whole 'backwards approach' only works for if and only if logical pathways (i.e. the converse must also be true). Many inequality questions in the HSC are of the form of "if A is true then prove inequality B". It is possible that if inequality B holds then condition A...

Ideally you should start from the inequality that 'cannot be refuted' and work your way towards the inequality you are trying to prove because the logical flow makes more sense.

Re: Announcement from BOSTES - significant change to calculus courses If that happens I wouldn't mind this because it allows room for more problem solving style questions. I'd much rather students lose marks due to lack of problem solving abilities than for incorrectly recalling a formula. Of...

Announcement from BOSTES - significant change to calculus courses Where are the equations for projectile motion? These are the ones everyone asks whether they should derive or quote.

Re: HSC 2016 4U Marathon Nvm, just realised when I actually tried doing it.

Re: HSC 2016 4U Marathon This is probably a general note across all the marathon threads. Whilst it is great to for non-HSC students to participate and have discussions about mathematical concepts, please don't overdo it at the expense of not giving current HSC students a chance to participate.

Re: HSC 2016 4U Marathon Not sure if that second part is in scope of HSC...

Post any questions within the scope and level of Mathematics Extension 2. Once a question is posted, it needs to be answered before the next question is raised. This thread is mainly targeting Q1-15 difficulty in the HSC. Any questions of Q16 difficulty or harder should be posted in the...

Keep a food diary for a normal sample week. Find out how many kilojoules/calories (approx no need to be overly accurate) per day that equates to (use some online sites which have reliable food energy databases to help with this). Find out your average daily energy requirements (there are...

There are lots of examples of matrices being applied in other HSC topics (especially if the foundations are built pre-HSC). Linear functions is the most obvious one but there are also potential applications in statistics and calculus as well. It's just a matter of being able to incorporate it...

Yeah I feel like operations of matrices for example would be more suited to high school (especially pre-HSC) rather than have universities teach us how do things like add, multiply or transpose a matrix.

Do you know whether students back then had to learn the foundations of vectors and matrices during the HSC course or beforehand?

Pretty much this. Also I would personally reallocate more of the applied topics to fall under the advanced and ext1 course (as the intent of these courses are for a broader audience using maths at uni) and have more of the pure stuff in the ext2 course (aimed at those more interested in the...

For those asking about state ranks, they consider your Ext2 (or 2U) marks to break ties for Ext1. Also, if I'm not mistaken where there are ties in the final HSC mark but the HSC external marks differ then the external mark is used to break the tie.

The marks are out of 70

Yes. They never expected it in the first place. It's not so much about 'correctness' as the conclusion only explains how the induction process works and is not really part of the underlying proof itself. You just won't get extra marks for writing a conclusion in the HSC.

It took me some time after graduating from high school to find out that there was more to BoS than HSC. Non-school is a very active forum (though mainly just one main thread) where people talk about almost anything other than HSC or school. It's a lot more informal/casual type of forum than...

One would hope that the uni courses would adjust accordingly with the change in syllabus by way of assumed knowledge.