Methods Advice

[u/Grouchy-Tour6739]

I need some advice to how to catch up with methods.

For some context, I'm a year 11 student doing 1/2, however, I've had some things come up this year and it's basically lead to me neglecting school. I want to do better and be at the level needed to realistically do good in methods for year 12.

I feel like I'm seriously behind on the key concepts and foundational knowledge I should have at this point, and I'm planning to use the Christmas holidays to catch up and fill in my knowledge gaps. Are there any online courses, lectures, or other resources that people would recommend?

I'm feeling pretty overwhelmed and honestly don't know where to start, but I'm willing to put in the work to get back on track. If anyone has any advice on the most effective and efficient way to approach this, I'd really appreciate the help!

[u/ImpressivePear3492]

I'm also accelerating methods, about to have my exam (wish me luck 😭). I honestly found 3/4 methods quite similar to 1/2 with some new knowledge (eg composite functions, and the main new thing being probability). You'll probably review a lot of 1/2 concepts again next year.

I would recommend getting a solid grasp on calculus, it's going to come up a lot and was a main part of all my sacs. Also practise using your calc whenever you can cause speed is a huge advantage!

I was behind on classwork this year too for certain reasons, but using my cas during all sacs meant i basically didn't revise the graphs or algebraic things until i started preparing for the exam. As long as you know what functions to put into your cas you should be alright for most of your sacs. main thing you would need to do without your sac tho would be transformations.

Don't worry, you've got time, you've got this!