Worried about Applied Maths for LC & would like advice

Odrevan

Hi, so I recently posted a thread regarding Maths for the LC and well, Applied Maths has been on my mind an awful lot lately too! Without bragging or being modest either, I am relatively good at Mathematical orientated subjects and I receive "A's" in Maths & Physics. I've being doing Applied Maths since the start of 5th year and up until now, I was never fully committed to the subject, and went through the whole year without studying much, giving up too quickly when a question got hard etc. However, at the start of this year (i.e yesterday!) I've adopted a new mentality to the subject and I plan to study hard for it. I'm also going to get grinds for the subject as I only get 80 minutes of classes a week for it. So basically, my goal is to get an "A" in the subject, and honestly an "A2" will do. Is this possible at this stage in the game? Note: I've just started 6th year now.

Tweej

You don't really need to do grinds. Just do questions, following the examples in the book.

Do as many as possible, when you don't understand how someone gets a solution, ask your teacher/thread on boards.ie.

Repetition, it's close to the same paper every year

Odrevan

Tweej wrote: »

You don't really need to do grinds. Just do questions, following the examples in the book.

Do as many as possible, when you don't understand how someone gets a solution, ask your teacher/thread on boards.ie.

Repetition, it's close to the same paper every year

But I feel myself that I'm not at a position where I feel confident with the subject & with only one year to correct that grinds seem like a good idea, right?

eoins23456

Odrevan wrote: »

But I feel myself that I'm not at a position where I feel confident with the subject & with only one year to correct that grinds seem like a good idea, right?

If you are mathematically orientated then go for it and study ta ****!
Grinds may help but if you have a big ability for the subject they shouldn't be necessary.

Odrevan

eoins23456 wrote: »

If you are mathematically orientated then go for it and study ta ****!
Grinds may help but if you have a big ability for the subject they shouldn't be necessary.

Ok, well I still reckon I'll do the grinds to be on the safe side but thanks for the advice

breadmonkey

Personally, I think it's a mistake to assume that grinds will automatically boost your chances of success.

A lot of guys in my year had this mindset - "I'm getting grinds therefore I'm getting better at this subject". No, that's not how it works! 90% of the learning is done by yourself by tackling as many problems as you can get your hands on.

If you get completely stuck, ask your classmates, teacher, boards.ie etc. If you find this is insufficient then get the grinds. You seem to have a good work ethic which is most of the battle imo.

TheBody

breadmonkey wrote: »

Personally, I think it's a mistake to assume that grinds will automatically boost your chances of success.

A lot of guys in my year had this mindset - "I'm getting grinds therefore I'm getting better at this subject". No, that's not how it works! 90% of the learning is done by yourself by tackling as many problems as you can get your hands on.

If you get completely stuck, ask your classmates, teacher, boards.ie etc. If you find this is insufficient then get the grinds. You seem to have a good work ethic which is most of the battle imo.

This times a million. I've given countless grinds over the years. The kids who just hand over the dosh and do no work NEVER improve. The students who have almost all the work done and just need minor corrections or clarifications do well.

Odrevan

TheBody wrote: »

This times a million. I've given countless grinds over the years. The kids who just hand over the dosh and do no work NEVER improve. The students who have almost all the work done and just need minor corrections or clarifications do well.

But I don't really have any good set of notes - my applied maths teacher is new to the subject and is learning to teach it with us, so naturally he isn't the best at explaining some things which is perfectly understandable. At the same time though, if I go to grinds I feel like I'm getting classes from a more experienced teacher and I intend on studying all the notes I get from grinds very comprehensively. With my situation in my mind, do you think it could be beneficial to get grinds so?

TheBody

Odrevan wrote: »

But I don't really have any good set of notes - my applied maths teacher is new to the subject and is learning to teach it with us, so naturally he isn't the best at explaining some things which is perfectly understandable. At the same time though, if I go to grinds I feel like I'm getting classes from a more experienced teacher and I intend on studying all the notes I get from grinds very comprehensively. With my situation in my mind, do you think it could be beneficial to get grinds so?

I think if YOU work then grinds will prob be helpful.

KeithTS

The most important thing here is that you put the hours in.
If you have the books and information available to you now to put your head down and do questions and get through them and understand it then you don't need grinds.

However, if you feel you don't have the resources available to you in your current situation and feel you need a person you can ask questions to and who will give you better notes then grinds will help.

But, if you go to grinds, you'll still need to put the hours into the subject. Grinds is not a quick fix, if you're putting an hour a night into the subject doing questions, going to a grind and listening to them for an hour shouldn't count as that days work done. You should go home after the grind and apply what they've shown you and still put that hour in doing questions.