MANSW HSC Lectures for Year 12 Students
Mathematics General 2
What makes Day 1: Basics different to Day 2: Beyond Basics?
Description of Day 1: Basics
The lecturer will address all the knowledge,
skills and understanding required to ensure a
satisfactory level of achievement. A wide
variety of topics and concepts will be covered
(slowly) that will help you negotiate with
confidence the first half of the HSC
Examination.
Here are some things you can expect to cover during each day, time permitting:
Helpful HSC hints and advice about
things to do before and during the
examination to maximize your marks
Making the most of the Formulae
and Data Sheet
Dealing with fractions, decimals and
percentages
GST and leave loading
Percentage error in measurement
Expert calculator tricks
Compound interest, inflation and
depreciation
Straight lines ( y mx b )
Bearings
Sine rule or cosine rule?
Converting between units of length,
units of area and units of volume
Rates and conversions, including
currency conversions
Similar figures
Bits, bytes, megabytes etc.
Mean and median
Statistical terminology: categorical,
stratified, systematic, discrete etc.
Cost of electricity
You will leave the venue with a list of things you need to do before the HSC Examination!
Description of Day 2: Beyond Basics
This day is for students who are determined
to achieve at the highest possible level. A
wide variety of topics and concepts will be
covered (faster than Day 1), with emphasis
on the more challenging aspects of this
course that you are likely to meet in the
second half of the HSC Examination.
Helpful HSC hints and advice about
things to do before and during the
examination to maximize your marks
How to tackle the reasoning and
communicating questions that
require you to compare and contrast,
explain and justify
Comparing data sets
Changing the subject of a formula
Direct variation and inverse variation
Mean and standard deviation
What IS standard deviation?
z-scores
Outliers
Correlation coefficient
Line of best fit
Solving simultaneous equations
Time tricks on your calculator
Spherical geometry
Financial expectation
Tree diagrams
Ordered selections and unordered
selections
The taxation system
Some really difficult HSC questions