Well, I shall re-open a new thread special for STPM students for year 2014/2015!

As I am just starting a new school life in Form 6 this year, so I can't share any of my experience regarding form 6!

Form 6 is gonna be tough and challenging, so this may be the biggest challenges I face in my whole life!

To survive (and score) in this one and a half year, therefore I need some advises and experiences regarding this.

Anyone who are studying in Form 6 right now, or those STPM graduates can give some two cents here! Any helpful comments are welcomed!

Great! A new thread for the Form 6 batch of 2014/2015, let's put it to good use.

Anyway, scgoh123, have you been informed of when you'll be taking your STPM Tem 1 Trial? Mine is around in the month of September, which is approximately 2.5 months left from now on. Not to mention that I've got lot's of brush up to do for my English in MUET.....

Particularly for MUET, I found out that this model test papers prove to be quite efficient when you want to put your understanding and mettle in English to the test. The publisher for it is 'Ilmu Bakti':


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How's Further Maths, Maths and Physics going for you.

I'm in 2014/2015 STPM batch as well. Just one question here... How R u guys' teachers? And how do you cope with teachers who don't teach well? Thanks a lot.

we're on the same shoes!

I don't officially undertake Further Maths as 5th subject for my STPM due to it's overwhelmingly complex nature of it's syllabus and contents. But, I did managed to print out several chapters and materials that are related to it from the e-books and personally study them from time to time.

For the first Term of Further Maths, I only printed most of the contents(but not entirely) from the book: Discrete Maths and Its Applications by Kenneth Rosen. But, another book (Discrete Mathematics with Applications by Susanna S. Epp) is really good too if you ask me, but I rarely use it.

Further Maths
My progress in Further Maths Term 1 is very slow if you ask me, as I'm still having trouble with with the Rules of Interference, and translating expressions with nested quantifiers into an English statement can prove to be a tough nut to crack. Nested Quantifiers is not too bad either. I feel that I'm quite alright with the rest of subtopics under Logic.

For topics under Proofs, I'm just starting to learn on how to prove a biconditional statement and contradiction. You'll also get exposed to many types of proofs, like Exhaustive Proof, Proof by Cases, Uniqueness Proof...... I haven't delve further into them just yet, so my insight on these subtopics are rather superficial.

Maths T
So far, so good. I've fathom lots of concepts so far in Chapter 1, it's just that I lack lots of practice. Need to brush up on my Trigonometry(especially the compound-angle and double-angle formulae).. At the same time, I'm trying to familiarized myself with answering questions that require binomial expansion in Chapter 2. I've completed Chapter 3 before I went to NS, and I reckon that it's the easiest(not too easy, it's still complicated in some other ways) chapter of all, yet I need to train myself to quickly find the answers/inverse matrix when I'm using the ERO or Gaussian Elimination though.

In Chapter 4, I'm ok with most of the subtopics, except for the part in de Moivre's theorem. I need plenty of time to digest it. As of now, I'm mainly slow when it comes to answering certain questions in Math and that seems to be my main weakness. I must complete lots of questions and exercises if I wanna improve my Math.

Physics
Nothing much to say about my progress in this subject, except for the fact that it's extremely slow and that I might wanna picking up some speed if I wanted to finish the whole 1st Term syllabus before the month of September. And just like Maths T, I need ample of time to do tonnes and tonnes of questions in order to familiarized myself with the format of the question and to grasp some concepts, especially when it comes to projectiles...

So, that pretty much summed it up.

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Wow, great thread! Keep it up, guys! I'm a STPM 2013 graduate, and I have only one advice: Appreciate what you're going through. Form 6 is so far the best thing I have lived in my life.

Oops, I'm in Humanities (Kemanusiaan) not Science. But still, we're facing STPM~

It's only been a month since I commenced my First Term STPM, so I can't really say much about my teachers.

But from what I can see hitherto, I fond of the way my Chemistry teacher teaches her students. She knows really well on anything that she's trying to convey to her students and she'd love to go beyond that just to show us that there's more to STPM Chemistry. And based on her experiences, she's a veteran of that subject in my school.

My Math T teacher is quite alright, neither extremely superb nor too poor. But, she often clings on to her own teaching notes/books and she seemed hesitate to budge from it....

Nothing much for my Physics and PA teacher, due to the fact that I seldom meet them before the holidays.

Well to be frank, you don't really need to depend on your class teacher all the times. This is STPM we're talking about, hence independent plays an essential role in order for us to learn all the subjects/materials by ourselves if we can't follow up with the unpleasant teaching methods of some teachers.

But, I believe that most of the Form 6 teachers don't teach too badly though, and having said that, you might wanna try to learn something firsthand before you enter the class. And that if you have any doubts or question, just ask them.

It doesn't really matter if you're in Humanities or Science stream, as long as we're waging war to ace the STPM exams, we're all comrades with one same goal.

I'm also in Form 6 this year. I choose Humanities because I suck at Science. A question; how do you guys study in class? Did you guys take any note or just listen?

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Nope, instead I was informed that school monthly test is going to start on July.

@RED-HAIR-SHANKS BTW can I know where are you studying now?

Humanities is pretty much more easier than Science, provided that you study consistently.

If you do not understand certain part of teacher's lectures, just ask.

Sometimes taking notes will help in revision later on.

Exactly.

Just two cents from me.

My school does not offer package for Further Maths, and the teachers keep discouraging us from taking any extra subjects because of the workload.........

For Maths T, you need to have a clear picture on what you studied in Form 4 and form 5 because those concepts will be used in answering questions. And teachers will be expecting you have mastered all the things in Form 4 and Form 5. And Maths T is a very HUGE GAP between the fundamental maths and add maths we are learning now.

For Physics, it's also a very HUGE GAP. what you learn not necessarily correct in Form 6. Be extremely specific and accurate in answering questions because those examiners will like picking bones in an egg (Chinese proverb)

Seems like you are on the right track ha.

Just asking:
If you got offered to pursue a degree in teaching at IPG (Institut Pengajian Guru), will you go?

SMK Simpang Empat, in Penang.

Hello! I am STPM 2014/2015 batch . I got the offer to study Diploma teknologi Kejuruteraan elektrik in UTHM, but I think i am gonna continue my Form Six.

Btw, I take Bio,Maths T, Chemi, and PA.

Can anyone share with us the way you learning these subjects efficiently? (My Add Maths and Chemi not so good , I don't have strong foundation in these two subjects, manage to get an A in add math and but B+ IN Chemi ! )

This post has been edited by Joelyn: Jun 16 2014, 04:41 PM

Make mind maps~