Passing Honours Maths :o

tramoredude

Im kinda struggling with honours maths at the minute, its mostly due to a lack of study / effort over the year, I'm pretty good at certain topics and pretty weak at others...

Strengths:

Vectors
Algebra
Trig
Differentiation
Integration

Weaknesses:

Sequences & Series
Further Series
Binomial Expansion and general term etc etc....

I need a C3 (55%) for my course, So what questions do people recommend, does anyone have any tips / advice for the last month that will help me get 55% ?

Any help greatly appreciated...

Fuascailt

Well, youe strengths seem to be covering the majority of the paper. You say your good at algebra, a lot of the circle can be done very algebraiclly- use g's, f's and c's rather then h's and k's. After that... just do questions. As many as you can. Ask your teacher when you can't do something. Concentrate on a and b parts as well, and for the c's, do what you can. An attempt mark is better than zero, and everything will add up. Good Luck!

tramoredude

Thanks, I'm doing pretty well at a lot of the exam questions but Paper1 Q5 really got me down today

Back to the books!

Yuugib

on the examsupport.ie they have a tutorial of how to get a C in h maths.. have a look at that, you might find it useful

whatsyourquota

This was the same position i was in last year, couldnt get to grips with any of your weak topics either so i left them all out and studied the ones i was good at. I had to do a bit on further series but that was it! I ended up with a B1 it is a gamble and maybe i was lucky with the easyish questions that came up. I dont think there is any point studying for all the questions on the course, so maybe you should only study for 7 questions on each paper and leave your 2 worst questions out??

tramoredude

Yuugib wrote: »

on the examsupport.ie they have a tutorial of how to get a C in h maths.. have a look at that, you might find it useful

Thanks!

GLaDOS

Your teacher mightn't agree but just pick 6 questions to concentrate on in both papers.

You should be grand for paper 1, 2qs on algerbra, 2qs on differentiation and 1 on integration.

Paper 2, I would recommend blitzing probability and such. q6 in particular can be very easy if you're good at it, as part b is always a difference equation and they're simple.

tramoredude

Yeah i'm getting pretty good at Q6&7 on Paper 2 after trying lots of them..

Sequences & Series seem to pop up everywhere and i'm pretty crap at it, Any tips / recommendations?

Thanks again, that free examsupport.ie guide was great

Mark200

I'm in the same position as you....where I need to get a C3 in honours maths. I got 44% in my mocks, and I've been concentrating on maths since then so I'm hopeful.

How did you do in your mocks?

tramoredude

Slightly less than that

It was a really tough paper though and I was unprepared... 5 weeks till the real deal now! BRING IT ON!!