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My book aims to complement your teacher’s guidance and your regular school textbook by providing a different viewpoint on every topic – the unique viewpoint of a former student who has had success in the VCE and knows the intricacies of what is required. In addition, I hope to share with you the insights I have gained from teaching and lecturing in VCE mathematics over the last decade.  \nMost study guides will try to provide you with hundreds or thousands of ‘exam style questions’. It is easy to be drawn towards such books. However, without a true understanding of the mathematical concepts, such books are rather useless.  \nI feel that it is more important to teach students why things work, rather than just showing them thousands of examples that they do not properly understand. This idea has formed the basis for my teaching and mathematics books over the last nine years. My aim has always been to explain concepts in a simple and easy-to-understand manner, and to provide students with quality questions rather than a large quantity of questions. It is with this approach that I am proud to bring you this sixth edition of my mathematics guides.  \nIn this book, you will find practical explanations of each concept to address the questions that you are likely to have when learning the material. You will also find advice that is specific to the VCE, and which will assist you in targeting your learning towards SACs and the end-of-year exams. Other parts of this book will improve your understanding by delving into the complexities of each topic so that you can answer the more difficult analysis questions that will inevitably appear in your assessments.  \nTo use this book most effectively, I suggest that you firstly read through it in the same way as you would for a novel – that is, from beginning to end with as few breaks as possible. I have written in a conversational style to create a more interesting read, as well as to provide you with descriptions that are easier to relate to and understand, especially when compared with a regular school text book.  \nOne of my other motivations for writing this book stems from my time as a school student. During my VCE, I found that there were no resources available that showed how to set out a solution for a VCE mathematics exam. The textbooks were not handwritten, and neither were the official VCAA assessment reports. As such, I hope to fill this gap, and have included many hand-written examples to demonstrate the layout of solutions for typical exam questions. These solutions show you the same format that I used during my VCE to much success, and you can use these hand-written answers as a guide for setting out your own working.  \nThe solutions also feature annotations that illustrate the thinking that I use to write an answer. 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