How To Teach Myself

killparis
Sat, 04 Jan 2014 00:13:22 +0000

^ You guys forget that he never heard of some topics before.



For Math, those two books are pretty much useless. All you get is some formula, few examples, some easy practice questions and that’s it. Sure, you can memorize how to solve some problems, but once they ask you about the same thing in a different way, you’re pretty much screwed.

So for starters, I suggest you do a practice test and identify which topics you don’t quite understand or came across. Once you do that, go to [Khan Academy](http://www.khanacademy.org), find those topics, learn about them and do some of their practice questions. Luckily, Math II questions are generally easy and don’t require that much knowledge about some of the ‘advanced’ topics such as limits, polar coordinates or matrices.

Take limits for example. They don’t want you to know stuff like squeeze theorem, but rather the basics:

‘a limit is the value that a function “approaches” as the input approaches some value’

They will 99% of time give you some polynomial divided by another polynomial, and ask you what value does a function approaches as x approaches some value ‘a’. Odds are that the function won’t be defined at that value and so you can’t just plug in the number. You need to factor the polynomials, do some cancellations and plug in that value ‘a’ afterwards to find the limit.

My 2 cents. Throw me a PM if you have some further questions.