Dr Du Entrance Exam Year 10 (1 Viewer)

[blackaragorn]

Does anybody know what topics will be asked in the dr du entrance exam for year 10. Will it be late year 10 and early year 11 content or normal year 10 and some year 9. did the entrance test for year 9 back last year and they didn't test any accelerated topics.

But since its term 2 would they cover the term one topics which they already did to see what class I would be in. was in a2 last year

 

[jane1820]

first of all i have never done tutoring let alone done a tutoring exam but just so yk, yr 10 math is piss easy (i didnt get below 90% till yearlies but even then i got a 87%) and it covers the following:
- statistics (its all calculator so doesnt even need thinking)
- algebra (rearranging stuff, subing in values, index laws, making a variable the subject)
- trig (exact values, cosine rule, sine rule, bearings, identifying sin/cos/tan graphs, ASTC - all of which are piss easy)
- surds
- probability (very basic like 'what is the probability a child is a girl?' umm 1/2 give harder bro)
- functions (this is absolutely new so if you dont know how to yet start preparing its so easy too! parabolas, exponentials, hyperbolas, cubics, linear, quadratics, circles, finding equations, vertex points, finding interception points)
- simultaneous equations (also used in functions in finding interception points)
- completing squares (just used when: asked to or when finding the equation for a circle)
- financial maths (simple interest, compound interest, earning money)
- bonus: towards the end of year 10 we took logarithms tho its only year 11 and is absolutely not significant in year 10

i listed all the year 10 5.3 topics (assuming u do 5.3) and these are from the top of my head

for early year 11 advanced math its just:
- functions (same as year 10 except you learn: absolute values (graphing and solving), piecewise functions, functions and relations, one-to-one, one-to-many, many-to-one and many-to-many)
- algebra (exactly the same)
- surds
- simultaneous equations (gets a bit complicated)
- discriminant (you wouldve touched upon this in year 10 but it becomes an 'actual' topic in year 11)
ig thats it but im like 97% sure (i feel that i missed something)
edit: i remember what i missed at my school we also did equating coefficients but im not sure if its in the syllabus
edit 2: also do graphing polynomials and even/odd functions

so there you go a list of everything in year 10 5.3 and early year 11 advanced
i cant speak for extension year 11 bc different schools start different topics, my school did combinatorics first but a lot of other schools do functions first idk

 

[jane1820]

i gave bro 15 minutes of my time for him to react w a thumbs up

 

[blackaragorn]

i gave bro 15 minutes of my time for him to react w a thumbs up

mb was a bit busy, thanks for the help and advice tho. Im joining dr du for 3u and I saw some other posts saying that there was year 9 content if you were to do the entrance test at the start of the year but it apparently changes after each term. A lot of the stuff you said for yr 11 we are doing this yr and vice versa for the year 10 stuff. idk I'll revise through everything you said and prolly more, but I'm prolly gonna be learning a lot of the content since my school has done functions but like at a rlly basic level. For some reason our school did simultaneous equations but not sine and cosine graphs, so ye idk whats happening there. And also 15 units, cmon how do U even have time to type that up.

 

[zzz5428]

At this time, probably anything year 9 related and first term year 10 content.

 

[jane1820]

For some reason our school did simultaneous equations but not sine and cosine graphs, so ye idk whats happening there. And also 15 units, cmon how do U even have time to type that up.

U dont graph sine and cosine graphs you just need to be able to identify them thats it
Im typing this rn in ext math class lmao

 

[blackaragorn]

At this time, probably anything year 9 related and first term year 10 content.

But dr du usually accelerates as the content U learnt last year I am using this year. So rn they're teaching 2u math.

 

[zzz5428]

But dr du usually accelerates as the content U learnt last year I am using this year. So rn they're teaching 2u math.

Yes and the entrance test is easier than what they cover currently