How many of you are flooded with tens and tens of school exam papers for all your subjects?

How many of you struggled to answer those questions correctly?

We are about 10 weeks away from 2009 GCE O Level Additional Mathematics Examinations.How prepared are you? Confident to score the results you want or are you desperately helpless and confused?

If you belong to the latter group, please clam down. You still have time but you must be really focused and determined now.

The best way for you to revise (re-learn for some) within the remaining short period of time is to do it One Topic at a Time.

This way of preparing for the O Level exams

• builds up your confidence gradually,
• makes it easier for you to digest small bit by small bit and
• more importantly this method keeps you in a clear and focused mind on what you need to achieve daily.

I have applied this way of revision method for students who seek help in the fire-fighting period like now. (Every year, we would have a few students in our Final Leap Programme, commited to do whatever it takes to create the leap in their O Level results; Darren from Kuo Chuan Presbyterian is a living example, F9 (Prelims) to B3 in O Level A-Maths in 3 weeks!)

NOTE: Final Leap Programme is NOT meant for everyone. Details of this programme will be released in early August.

For the last few months, I have been busy with completing my book on ‘O Level Additional Mathematics Topical Real Exam Questions (TREQ) Book’

Finally, it’s all ready!

And to thank you for being my loyal reader of singaporeolevelmaths.com, I would like to give you a FREE Introductory Copy of TREQ on the #1 Killer A-Math Topics : Trigonometry.

In this introductory Copy, you will discover:

• How examiners test your understanding of Trigonometry in the different ways.
• The various variety of questions being tested for Trigonometry.
• Your level of competency in the topic of Trigonometry.
• The MUST KNOW questions to score ‘A’ in your O levels.

To download your copy, click here.

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For the past month, other than being busy with the June Intensive Revision Programmes, I was also packed with Mid Year Exam Papers Review for my group of students.

I am pleased to announce that almost all see an improvement in their Mid Year Results (One boy has his grades jump from F9 to A2! Congrats, B!)

I was reviewing the school a-Math exam papers with one of my students during my A-Math Ultimate Leap Programme when she posted me a good question.

Let’s take a look at her Trigonometry question first:

This was her solution for the question:

There is one misconception in her thoughts, can you spot it?

sin 3x is not equal to sin x + sin 2x!

In fact, the correct formula to choose for this question is

sin 3x = sin (2x + x)

= sin2xcosx + cos2xsinx

Her question was: how do you know which formula to use?

TIP: When the angle involved is ODD, we usually use addition formula (just like in this question).

When angle is EVEN, double angle formula is perhaps the correct one to choose.

Are you confused just like my student, which formula should be use? Leave me a comment.

I hope this post has made your understanding clearer :-)

Below is a list of useful posts on A-Math Trigonometry:

1. How To Prove Trigonometry Identity
2. A-Math Trigo Graphs
3. More A-Math Trigo Graphs
4. Drawing of Trigo Graphs

PS: I will be re-running A-Math Trigonometry Mastery Workshop in July as some students miss out the one in June due to other commitments. Registration is open! Click here for more details

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I am back :-)

I apologise to all my readers on my absence for the entire month of June. I was busy with training a group of committed students in their a-Math like Logarithms, Linear Law, Trigonometry (Top Killer a-Math Topic), Quadratic Equations & Its Applications (Importance often underestimated) + Differentiation & Integration (Really x1000 important!)
e-Math Mastery Workshops include Trigonometry (again!), Vectors (many can’t find this out too!), Graphs Mastery & Statistics – Probability (the participants were amazed by the power of their calculator + the shortcuts which saves them the time yet score the marks)

It was tiring but fun and meaningful June holidays. I am confident to say that most students left each workshop with an increased level of confidence and more tools to handle those exam questions!

They were equipped with the following:

• Shortcuts (time-saving + easy to use)
• Strategies to relate concepts to everyday life examples (help them to understand better and clearer)
• Wise usage of time in exams conditions
• Exposure to the various types of tricky , challenging + “interesting” exam questions

For those who missed out on your programmes, we are re-running A-Math Trigonometry Mastery Workshop. Be posted of future workshops by filling up your email details here.

For the next few weeks, I will continue to blog on more Math Tips on the common mistakes many students make and how you can avoid them to score more marks for your exams!

Here is the link to the video of photos taken at the various workshops:

http://www.singaporeolevelmaths.com/photos

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