Product Description

Higher Maths Objective Tests: Revision Notes and Questions provides guidance for the most recently introduced section of Paper 1 in the Higher Maths syllabus offered by the SQA, that of non-calculator objective questions. The first section of the book gives students a means of intensive revision and a way of identifying weaknesses or techniques in which they require further practice. Questions are arranged by topic and also by level of difficulty, so that students can measure their own progress against the level of question which they are able to answer correctly. The second section of the book comprises 6 sets of 20- 'two-mark' multiple-choice questions, all at Higher level, designed to build confidence in dealing with a section that is worth over 30% of available marks in the Higher examination.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #324779 in Books
• Published on: 2008-02-29
• Original language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• 80 pages

Customer Reviews

Terrible objective questions, and plain wrong in places
I was very disappointed with this book. I study maths at university, and I tutor people for Higher Maths. I had hoped to recommend this book to them, but instead I'm warning them off it.

First of all, all the questions are in the wrong format. They read like sentence-completion questions ("The line AB has gradient: ...") rather than having a proper question before the options ("What is the gradient of the line?"). This might sound a bit pedantic, but it makes some of the questions very hard to read.

More worryingly is that some of the questions are wrong. One question asks for the limit of a recurrence relation, but doesn't specify the starting value - if you actually think about the maths, it turns out that there are three possible answers, and two of them are given as options!

For another example, there are a few questions which ask you to solve an equation for x>0 - then two of the options have negative x's so you can rule them out right away. This just wouldn't happen in the SQA exam.

I've given it 2 stars because it's not completely useless. There are still some good questions, and a lot of practice, but I think the amount of mistakes and wrong maths mean you should avoid this book. It's just not very good practice for the exam, and it might teach you things which are false.