I agree with the previous review here of this unit. In my review I'll quickly go over the main aspects of the unit such as the lectures, meetings and assessments. Keep in mind, I did the online version of this unit which was the 6 weeks accelerated. To add, I didn't do maths methods or specialist maths in VCE, so my review will be coming with that perspective. Finally, I'll also go over the best way to pass this unit and get it out of the way if you're struggling. Lectures: The course schedule goes by 1 module per week, a total of 6 modules. Each module contains 3-4 topics, and in the 3-4 topics there's around 3-4 videos. All together in each module, there's around 300-350 minutes worth of lectures to watch. The first 3-4 weeks of lectures are not bad, Mr. Heiko Dietrich is overall a good lecturer, some of the concepts could've been explained better. But the following 2-3 modules worth of lectures are done by Mr. Nick Wormald, brace yourselves because these will be some of the most boring and unengaging lectures of your life. I studied at multiple different universities before, and by far, the lectures by Nick Wormald are the most uninteresting and irritating (due to all the coughing). Literal torture sitting through those. Overall, the lectures explain some concepts well and others not so well and if your're not familiar with the topics like I was, you will have to head to Youtube for a better explanation. I found a lot of the lectures to be a waste of time, with just how slowly and poorly explained some of the concepts were. I'd often sit through a 40 minute lecture not understanding what was going on and then heading to Youtube and spending another 1-2 hours to get a clearer picture of the concepts being explained in the lecture. So a 40 minute lecture ends up being around 2-3 hours. I strongly believe you don't need to watch all the lectures and waste your time. Go over the assignment, see what concepts you need to know to answer the questions and just learn those concepts. That's a better way of going abouts things rather than watching 10-15 lectures and then going to do your assignment. Manage your time wisely, 6 weeks goes by real quick. Meetings: We would have weekly (sometimes twice in a week) meetings to discuss the assignment questions an do a QA session during. I found these meetings slightly helpful, but it often seemed like the teacher came unprepared. The teacher would be figuring out questions on the spot, which extended the duration of the meeting. It would've been better for the teacher to come with a plan on how to best explain the questions, the concepts and how to best tackle them. Rather than "hmmm" "ummm" "aaah" and figuring things out on the spot, often resulting in a sub-par quality session. These meetings are recorded so you can watch them in your own time. Assessments: There are 3 assignments, first and second worth 30% each and the third one worth 40%. Each assignment will have around 3-5 questions with different parts in each question. I found there to be a BIG gap between the difficulty of the content we learned, and the difficulty of the questions in the assignments, the questions were much more difficult and the lectures and meetings definately did not prepare us enough to answer the questions in the assignments. Assignment 1 is not bad and you should try to do your best and rack up as many marks as possible because the next two assignments are lengthy and difficult. How to tackle this unit: If you're like me, who had to do this unit because it's part of my course, and, you know for certain you won't be needing the knowledge in your field of work in the future, I would not bother trying hard in this unit, I'd learn just enough to pass. I would start very early, you'll have access to the materials 1-2 weeks before the official starting date, during this time try to get a basic understanding of the concepts. Also, this unit doesn't mention pre-requisites, but they assume you know certain things like how to solve quadratic equations, what are binomials, trinomials, how to expand and factorise. Learn these too, you'll be doing A LOT of factorising and dealing with long equations. Once you have a basic understanding of the concepts in the assignments, I would then hire a tutor to work through the assignment with. Preferrably a student who's already done this unit already and did well in it. This is because, A) students need money, so there's more room to negotiate $$ and requirements B) the concepts will be familiar, mathematics is huge and not all maths tutors are familiar with the concepts in this unit (coming from personal experience when hiring tutors). Once you've found a potential tutor, now this is very important, say you want to work through the assignments together and reach the right answer together. Don't just get their help with understanding the concepts, make sure to get to the answer of the questions in the assignments too. Think about it, what's more important, spending time and $$$ to try understand concepts you'll never use in your career, keyword "try", no guarantee you'll understand them and pass the unit. You can hire tutors and what not but still fail the unit. Or, is it more important to get the god damn answers to the questions so you can actually pass the unit and don't have to repeat it and pay the fees again? Rather than trying to figure it all out for yourselves, this is the best way. So when you go to submit your assignment you would know that your answers have been derived with help from someone knowledgeable and you're not just taking a punt. This is exactly what I did and I passed the unit. Key thing, student tutor. Teachers, professors etc won't give you the answer, they won't negoatiate too as they don't really need the money. Student tutors on the other hand, you can setup a package, 1 assignment assistance for $100 for example. Keep in mind, this unit isn't structured like a proper postgraduate unit and isn't very work-life friendly. Posgraduate students are also employed and most likely have full time jobs. Doing a 9-5, coming home at 6-6:30PM, looking after a family, doing errands, and then finding the time to watch boring not so helpful lectures and then extra time to go on youtube to get a better understanding of the concepts is way too much. You won't have a life. Just learn the basics and get the rest of the help from a tutor. Don't make it unnecessarily hard for yourself. I wrote all this at 3am, ignore any grammar or other mistakes. Hope this helps, good luck!

This is the sort of unit where if you already have a strong maths background, then you'll do fine and you'll probably like the unit. However, if you don't already have that background and you're expecting to be able to practice your maths skills, you will feel like this unit is next to impossible. It is extremely difficult to keep up with the content if you don't have a strong maths background. The fact that this unit doesn't have any prerequisites is extremely misleading as you are absolutely expected to already have at least a basic understanding of the concepts taught in this unit. Both lecturers are thankfully okay, however the tutorials are an extremely mixed bag where some tutors are completely useless. The final exam was also completely unfair. We were not allowed to use calculators on the exam for some insane reason, and we were not given any partial marks for the answers we gave so you either got 100% or absolutely 0. This unit was already hard enough for me. To punish students by making an unfair final exam is just a massive kick in the teeth to the people that have been struggling throughout the entire semester. I don't recommend this unit unless you are already an expert mathematician before starting it.