What year?

I disagree though, as the new format is much more harder and it's more rigorously tested compared to the older STPM syllabus... The topics are condensed but it is much harder to master...

the syllabus are similar, matter a fact, it's lesser and easier as they are aiming for the "holistic" method of teaching to alleviate student from "memorising" the syallbus but instead "apply", learned knowledge!

generally is a good thing, but given the fact that it's going to be applied into a per semester basis,

well... that basically translate into " blah...blah...blah... blah, less to memorise!"

and also looking at the general population of student, and their mentality, we are lights year away from being capable of such practices!

Im from 05' batch!

I would like to thank maximR and you for helping me out in clearing my misconceptions and doubts regarding those questions that I posted. I need to find out more stuffs that are pertaining to circular motion as I cannot totally get the hang of it currently.

Erm... not really. The questions require some extensive thinking... Sure there's a lot of stuff that needs memorizing but you do need to realize that is only one part for you to excel in STPM...

I recall that I shared a link with you on how to get the free & good quality, “OpenStax College Physics” textbook (Web / PDF / EPUB) in this post 3 months ago.

You can also get nearly a dozen of Higher Education textbooks. Just click the image. Choose a high-quality text now!

Yes, I still remember it. Thanks once again for your aid. Anyway, considering the fact that you fond of books, do have an A-Level book which looks like this :

Title: A Level Physics (4TH)
Author: Muncaster, Roger

The reason I ask is that one of my classmates do get his hands on it, and it seems more appetising than any other STPM Physics books so far. I've skimmed the contents, and it can be used from the 1st until the 3rd semester.

I have that book. Are you from Penang? Because a guy on Facebook asked me for recommendations and I mentioned this one, and his book arrived a few days ago. I think that's your classmate.

It is a good book, which is very suitable for STPM Physics because it's Calculus based ( A-Level textbooks these days only use algebra ). But you can have all the books in the world and yet learn nothing from them. Physics is not about reading and then being content that you've understood what you've read. It's about thinking. Doubting. And attempting HARD problems which can teach you a lot. So, whether or not you want to get Roger Muncaster's book, it's up to you. If you think you can utilise it, why not? It's more detailed than ALL of the STPM books that are being sold. But it's costly. And heavy.

Sunway has got nothing to do with it. We're still in Introduction to Physics.

During my post-SPM break, I registered for Mechanics Review by MIT on edX. That course changed the way I look at Mechanics now. I thought I knew Mechanics, but boy, was I wrong. The SIM approach is the backbone of the course. SIM stands for System, Interactions and Models. I completed 5 of the modules, but I think I might fail the course because at college, I didn't have time to finish the others. I ended up not completing the 6th and 7th modules, which is a shame. But I learnt a lot from the course so I'll continue with it, regardless of whether I'd earn the certificate or not.

As for Sunway, I have a long story to tell. But for now ( I just arrived at my hometown, extremely exhausted ) I met quite a few brilliant people. And when I say brilliant, they are really brilliant. It is a humbling experience, coming to Sunway. To give you a clue, I have a classmate who recently obtained a Gold Medal in the IMO, a January intake guy with a Silver medal, a few who made it into the Top 20 for OMK, a senior who was the first Malaysian to win the Gold Medal in IMO. My classmates are very enthusiastic when it comes to Maths. We discuss problems, find new approaches to a problem, attempt our own proofs, and spend a lot of hours in the library.

By the way, I'm taking Maths, Further Maths, Physics and Economics. A little bit sad at the fact that I'm forsaking Chemistry.

Thanks for MaximR for explaining the doubts in physics!

Has anyone got the question for Maths T coursework??

And do any of you have guide to complete the coursework?

Actually, NO3- ion has dative bond. This is because N is located in Period 2 and it can only accommodate a maximum of 8 electrons at its valence orbital. N atom cannot expand it's octet, so it has to donate a lone pair of electrons to O atom which has empty orbitals.

What you draw is actually correct, but you didn't indicate the dative bond.

This post has been edited by scgoh123: Jul 26 2014, 09:15 PM

My coursework is about Chapter 2: Sequence and Series.

Guide? I'm not quite sure about that, but my Maths teacher just hand them over to us and ordered us to get it done before the end of August. If we have any troubles, we will just discuss among us and only seek help from teacher after we truly reach a dead end.

How about your's ?

Mine is same as yours.
I have to hand in after raya holiday instead

Other than that, do you receive any Chemistry related sheets from your teacher? It's because I got mine before the holidays and that I've found out that we're going to do 5 experiments for first term(Experiment 1-5), 5 experiments for second term(Experiment 6-10), and only 3 experiments for third term(Experiment 11-13). I hope that our school doesn't instruct us to pile up the whole experiments and deal with them in the third term next year...

This post has been edited by RED-HAIR-SHANKS: Jul 28 2014, 11:00 PM

No. You'll carry out each experiment as its respective terms as you need the knowledge of the respective terms. Third term experiments would be the most interesting, and the synthesis is quite challenging. Just wait.

But, my teacher told me the other day that if we don't have sufficient amount of time allocated to complete those experiments in the first term(let alone completing the first term syllabus), then we will have to conduct them in the second term. I hope that's not the case for my batch though. Besides, we have a lot of catch up to do and we are roughly 1 month away from first term trial.

This post has been edited by RED-HAIR-SHANKS: Jul 29 2014, 08:22 AM

I got the paper. 15 experiments and 1 project work to be carried out in 3 terms. My school had finished 2 out of 5 experiments. What makes me annoying is the project work.

P/S: Not trying to show off here, but my chemistry teacher is one of the authors of the Oxford Fajar STPM book. (there are 4 of them, u guess it) So she'll guide us in conducting those experiments.

16 experiments for Chemistry + 16 experiments for Physics + 3 assignments for Maths T + 2 assignments for PA + damn wide syllabus for the four subjects = extremely heavy workload!!!!

For those who have time to enjoy despite this workload, they are insane, and I salute you.

I have downloaded the copy, and I like that book very much. but to print out?! Thats ridiculous~~
1000+ pages !!!!!

You'll cope, and you'll manage. We, seniors, did.


Who?


You play hard, and you study hard. I played very hard when I studied form 6, and also studied hard.

You have plenty of time to play. Just manage your time well. You do it, and form 6 life will be brilliantly colourful.

We haven't even started on any Chemistry experiment yet, as my teacher wanted to quickly finish the syllabus. But, I bet that we will do it by next month.

You must be grateful then. You should take this chance by asking her to lend/recommend you some good exercise books or worksheets, considering the fact that she's an author and it will not be surprising at all if she has literally tonnes of them. I don't know if it works the same for you, but I prefer most of the STPM books from the old syllabus(terminal system) compared to the new ones.