Emilia1320 Posted December 18, 2014 Report Share Posted December 18, 2014 So, for last 2 months I've tried to prepare for HL math. I've done mainly algebra. Is there something particular I should take look at before next year and HL math Reply Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
lolmathstudiesnoobs Posted December 19, 2014 Report Share Posted December 19, 2014 Yeah good idea with the algebra, that's what always gets me. Lets be honest the calculus is a walk in the park if you enjoy it, what killed me was actually trig and stuff. The concepts in hl maths are so easy. In class you can actually just chill. Its the style of question that always wrecks people - they take simple concepts that you thought you knew and contort them. TLDR: Make sure you have the basics covered, but you really need to be focussing on IB-style questions. 1 Reply Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Emilia1320 Posted December 19, 2014 Author Report Share Posted December 19, 2014 Yeah good idea with the algebra, that's what always gets me. Lets be honest the calculus is a walk in the park if you enjoy it, what killed me was actually trig and stuff. The concepts in hl maths are so easy. In class you can actually just chill. Its the style of question that always wrecks people - they take simple concepts that you thought you knew and contort them. TLDR: Make sure you have the basics covered, but you really need to be focussing on IB-style questions. Thanks for reply I guess doing excercises from the HL math book is the best practice then? And yeah, I enjoy math a lot, and concepts are usually easy. I don't know if it will be "walk on the park" thou, I'll see it then Right now I'm on the SL and HL groups preparing group, and at least now it's all flawless, but I've heard HL math is significantly harder than SL. I'm not compaining thou, I think it's interesting to learn harder math I mean, on some topics I can just jump to the hardest question and do it first I don't think it should be that easy even on Pre-year, since Pre is supposed to prepare us for IB. I guess this results HL and Studies readers will have hard time on real IB, since HL readers won't get used to demanded challenge level (unless they do somewhat like I'm trying to) and Studies folks don't have math lessons during Pre-year at all I want to be ready for challenge right away so I'll succeed on my first mocks Reply Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Aniruddh Posted January 1, 2015 Report Share Posted January 1, 2015 Math HL is hard. Very hard. As the above poster said, the concepts themselves are easy to understand, and if you have a good teacher, you shouldn't have any problem. What stumps most people are the questions asked. I understand you're still in pre-IB, so concentrate on that, but if you really want to study for it, you can do what I did - download the latest syllabus (2014, I believe) from the Files section, and study each and every topic using Khan Academy or something, I personally googled anything I hadn't learned or didn't understand, or you might wanna buy a book, it's your choice. After studying a particular topic, start doing questions from past papers from that topic. This is perhaps the single most-important thing - I personally failed my first Math HL test (18/40), but after a lot of past paper solving, my scores have improved a LOT. If you do Math like 2 hours everyday, you should be fine and well on your way to a seven Reply Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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