Pretty simple intro to uni maths. Just make sure you don't underestimate it as a subject, the exam was killer for my semester. My lecturer (Alex Ghitza) was awesome, unsure if he still teaches Calc1 but he was always engaging and reassuring you throughout the sem. From memory, there are both tutorials and workshops in Calc1, with workshops being an open revision session where you'd drop in and ask questions to get help and tutorials being the standard work in groups exercises you'll become familiar with while studying maths at uni. Basically, it's VCE specialist maths in 12 weeks. Don't become complacent.

I'm just writing this for people like me, who may not be strong mathematicians like me and scared of uni maths & 'high fail rates?' Needed Calc & Linalg for my major so had to do it and I was SO scared to take it! For background, scraped a 28 in Methods and hadn't done maths since I graduated 2 years prior, so naturally jumping into university-level calculus with an 80% exam was terrifying. Through the semester, I really struggled a lot with the tutorials and pracs (went to every single one and relied on mates to do most of the problems and just followed along). I struggled with lectures and struggled with the assignments (which if you're not the best maths, take way longer than any assignment worth 2% should). I felt like I was bound to fail. I was considering dropping, but as it got into SWOTVAC a lot of the concepts FINALLY started to come together and I started to feel like a could pass the subject. ANYWAY, did the exam and ended up with a H2B, felt like I wasn't as dumb as I thought I was. If you need it for a major, bite the bullet and do it, you've got this <3

Here's my 2 cents: don't do this subject if you don't have to. If you're a maths enthusiast and grasp concepts quickly, by all means, go ahead. But if you are debating to take this subject as an elective because you were good at high school maths and think why not? Here's why not: it's not worth the effort. And it is not just an extension of high school maths. Everyone in my tute who didn't do specialist or IB HL struggled. Most of the concepts are quite abstract and if you don't have a drive for mathematical science, it can be very hard to grasp. The examples in the lectures were also so much easier than the weekly assignments and especially the exam. The assignments weren't too bad once you understood how they work, but the exam (at 80%) was brutal. I spent all of swot vac doing practice questions and rewatching all 36 lectures a second time and I still only passed. 3 hours seems like plenty time, but don't be fooled. I still had to rush and still couldn't finish all the questions. If I could go back in time and choose another elective, God knows I would. I will give it this though: the staff and students are lovely, especially the workshops. The teachers were always willing to help and so were the students, everyone helped each other regardless of what the question was, and I always had fun with my workshop group. But as a subject, while I enjoyed it during the semester, because of the exam and how heavy it is, I do regret taking it. It was too much work with very little reward, particularly because I didn't need it as a prerequisite.

Content is not too challenging if you took VCE specialist, but the exam was hard to pass, i didn't have enough time to check all my answers. But definitely a step up from Methods, however if you really love maths and you do the practice questions they gave you (which i didnt complete), and you went to the workshops every week (which i stopped going from week 3) it shouldn't be too hard. Shoutout to Arun Ram for being a really funny lecturer.

An interesting subject with an introduction to university-level mathematics, with some materials that you might be familiar with from high school. The workload includes a weekly homework so it might be time-consuming for some. I really recommend taking this subject if you can take this before Calculus 2 in order to familiarise yourself with how the university deals with mathematics subjects (the final exam weight is immense)! Content-wise is not very challenging, but it only gets harder from here!

I took this subject even though I was majoring in Genetics. However, I did not know my major at the time so I took this course. I regret my decision very much as the assignments (given every week) were way more harder than the actual content taught in the lectures. The exam usually follows a similar style every year however that doesn't mean it is easy. I barely passed. Might have something to do with my lecturer. FYI: I HATE UNI MATH, so keep that in mind! You might be good at it. Warning you thought; don't compare it to IB math if you took SL as it is so much easier. My tutor was lovely. My lecturer was very behind in content compared to the other lecturers. The lecturer is what's most important so if you don't like yours in the first week, just go to the other lecturers. It's best watching them online as you can solve the questions yourself and then see if it matches with the lecturers solution.

An interesting subject, and a great introduction to mathematics as a discipline. Assignments were quite time-consuming and the exam required a lot of practice beforehand. Content-wise it wasn't too difficult, but make sure to do a lot of past exams and clarify any ambiguities with the teaching staff. Would recommend if you're interested to know more about math in general.

It's all about not doing questions for the first time on pieces of assessments (i.e. weekly assignments or if you really laze about, the exam)

I mean, it's a prerec + it's math. The tutes were most useful, shoutout to Tom for being a great tutor.

More of a necessity than an enjoyment. If you suck at math, consultation hours and lunchtime tutors really help.