Writing Resources

Smashing Magazine has a fantastic article up, 50 Free Resources That Will Improve Your Writing Skills, the title of which pretty much speaks for itself. Grammar got you confused? Need to know how to style your essays? Or perhaps want to learn how to write a fantastic copy? I’m pretty sure you’ll find something of use in Smashing’s extensive compilation.

Book Boon: Out of syllabus, but still pretty awesome

Book Boon is a site with free downloadable textbooks about subjects ranging far and wide, from statistics to mechanical engineering to microeconomics. Right now I’m looking at the 109-page environmental pollution textbook, and can say that I’m suitably impressed. It is comprehensive, perhaps a little bit too, but can I fault them? Most of the contents are quite definitely out of your A-Level syllabus, but if you’re up for a little further (and I actually mean much further) reading, this site might just be for you.

Thanks Antonia for the tip.

Caught In Geog

Caught in Geog is a pretty comprehensive for your H1/H2 Geography needs. Summaries, essay outlines, case studies etc. for your perusal. Kudos to Stacy for setting this up, and for sharing your work!

Math Site

Someone dropped a link to his math site a while ago, and I haven’t really gotten the time to update, but here goes.

Mastering Maths Smartly, he calls it. Step-by-steps on how to solve your typical math problems, plus some practices as well. Cool stuff.

GP Linkfarm 2: Backgrounders

Here are a bunch of sites for some topics you might be interested in reading up on just before the GP paper if you really have no idea what’s going on in the world today. These are all pretty readable and more or less comprehensive – without a trace of Wikipedia, at that.

As usual, suggestions for more topics and sites are more than welcome in the comments.

The sites after the jump.

Back!

I’m back from the post-prelims break and (hopefully) better than ever. Will be continuing to update this site as the As draw closer, and as usual, still open to any submissions from anyone – drop me a message via the Contact page. Hope your prelims didn’t treat you too badly, but at any rate, it’s back down to serious business for the last lap. Study hard people!

Alright, random links time.
If you find yourself snacking a lot when you study, why not eat something that’s good for you while you’re at it.
From the same site, 10 Ways to Make Your Study Sessions More Productive.
And finally, two articles worth reading: How to Study and Hacking Knowledge.

I’ll leave it at that for now. And we all have to get back to mugging. D:

Physical Geography: Cues

A list of cue questions and pointers that might be helpful in revising physical geography.
Update: They’re all on one page now. I removed some useless points from Hydro (so I could fit it on one page), and included a download of a .zip of all three files.

Lithospheric Processes, Hazards and Management (39kb)
Atmospheric Processes, Hazards and Management (30kb)
Hydrological Processes, Hazards and Management (40kb)

Please Don’t Die

Hey all. Just figured I would post something since I was updating anyway. It’s been a rather productive week as you can see from the output over the last few days. I still have some notes from random friends that need to be uploaded, and I promise I’ll get these up by tomorrow. Just FYI they’re for economics (globalization) and geography (urban and population overviews).

That said, I’d like to thank the people that have left comments or messages in my mail to tell me how great you find this site. Thanks once again! And this week I’ve passed 2,500 hits with more than 500 on Wednesday – it’s pretty freaky but rather cool as well. You guys are awesome.

Before I go, some random sites that you might just find interesting.
10 Benefits of Power Napping, and How to Do It
How to Learn More and Study Less

All the best for Prelims! (Oh and just in case you wanted/needed to know, I’ve made changes to the macroeconomics cheatsheets and the latest essay outline – very minor ones that don’t really warrant a full-blown update, so if you’re that OC, feel free to download them again.)

Edit: New category - ”Essay”. Three guesses where that brings you.

Math Sites

John von Neumann once said, “Young man, in mathematics you don’t understand things. You just get used to them.” But that has nothing to do with this post, apart from the fact that it’s about math, and one of history’s greatest mathematicians said that. Anyway, the following sites are great.

1. H2 Mathematics Applets
If we took everything at face value we’d probably be screwed. This site is awesome if not painful on the eyes. If your concepts are a bit weak, these applets would probably help you visualize things with a bit more ease.

2. MathWorld
Everything you would practically (and impractically) need to know for math can probably be found here.

3. The Integrator
Three guesses what it does. (Input takes some getting used to though.)

4. Calc101.com
Alright this site does a whole lot of stuff. It’s best you explore yourself. Some functions need a paid password, though.

Much thanks to the RJC Math Department for these links

GP Linkfarm

1. BBC – Religion & Ethics
This page is awesome. Covers pretty much all the ground you need for most ethical issues you might care to name, from abortion to lying to war. Enjoy.

2. Debatabase
Rather good site for finding arguments for and against a whole lot of issues.

3. Arts and Letters Daily
Article, books and essays. Random but pretty useful at times for brushing up on your general knowledge. Worth a look.

That’s all for now. Suggestions for sites welcome in the comments.

Chemistry Websites

1. Chemistry Pages
This is the site of ex-chief examiner JRB Beavon. Pretty useful for content knowledge (plus random trivia) as well as exam skills.

2. Chemguide
I hazard that everything that you need to know for ‘A’s can be found in this site, and then some.

3. Virtual Textbook of Organic Chemistry
Excellent site for organic chemistry knowledge. Apparently pretty useful for H3 chemistry as well.

Much thanks to Mr. Wong Tze Yang from the RJC Chem Dept for these links.