Do you Trust your Textbook?

Textbooks: the Good and the Evil

'O' Level Math Bible (New General Mathematics) arrange the topics strategically and psychologically. The authors designed it in a way that ensure candidates will have a bit of everything. They randomly distributed the topics and separated similar concepts in different topics. They bore in mind that for many, it's not possible to  cover all the topics of the syllabus.

The main aim is to allow candidates:

- gradually acquire knowledge and skills in every topic

- to cover parts of all topics in a year

- to carefully study and practice every concept of every topic

- break from a challenging topic and refresh with new concepts.

Many teacher religiously follow the topic arrangement until they finish the two books. Some skip other topics to return to them later. The learning path is hugely determined by the Teacher who designs a school syllabus. 

On the other hand, The arrangement of the "sub-topics" has its drawbacks as far as completing a study of all principles is concerned.

The major concern of this are:

- what if you do not cover all topics in the textbook?

- does topic breaks positively contributes to students' understanding?

- will every one follow the arrangement of the topic for two years?

- doesn't the arrangement hide other major topic principles?

Only a few cover all the topics and use other textbooks due to limited learning and preparation time. Many candidates will have to face the exam with limited options. Given this scenario, if they miss the last 8 questions of Paper 1, the lose 49 marks.

What are your strategies to cover all the concepts?

Do you really have enough time to cover the whole syllabus?

For those who are retaking the Math exam, what's is the best method to prepare for the exam?

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