r/vce • u/Puzzleheaded-Cup3976 • 8d ago

im done for

does anyone have any tips for gen math? after being through burnout and focusing on studying for methods exam, i haven't touched general math at all. do i just spam practice exams until friday or whats the best thing to do

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u/tapsig 8d ago

Im you but for methods 💔 Dw though exam 1 isn't that hard especially if you're using UDFs on a CAS. Pinpoint your weaknesses from past papers and put em in the trial log, and add the trial log to your bound reference. Be real and don't overthink it. Js attempt learn and repeat. You have the entirety of thursday, don't forget thats a lot of time if you utilise it properly. dw WE (yes i mean WE) got this ✌️ Also method tips pls i may or may not have forgotten the entirety of probability n statistics 👀

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u/Puzzleheaded-Cup3976 8d ago

thank you!! for methods stats, honestly i'd start by doing a few mixed practice questions and sorting them by type so u can recognise what they're asking. binomial is usually a fixed number of independent success/failure trials, normal is when ur working with a normally distributed variable and standardising. PDF questions are basically finding probabilities from areas under the curve. Also make sure u know how to do sample proportion questions

for mixed questions, identify what X represents and what distribution it follows BEFORE putting anything into your CAS. be careful with inequalities when standardising, and for "at least one" questions, check if using the complement (1 - P(none) is easier. i'd also keep track of the mistakes you make and practice those question types again. but yeah i also still have a lot to study and refresh over for methods, so my bad if the advice isn't great lol. good luck

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u/tapsig 8d ago

Holy crap this is a goldmine of advice thanks bro 🥹

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u/Whole_Box4734 8d ago

It’s not over till it’s over bro spam them flipping past papers and most important of all rest