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CHAPTER AT A GLANCE
Quadratic Equations
•Unit: Algebra
•Board weightage: Algebra carries about 20 marks out of 80; this chapter usually gives one 3-mark or 5-mark word problem and one or two short questions on the discriminant (please check the latest sample paper)
•Methods in this textbook: factorisation (splitting the middle term) and the quadratic formula. Completing the square is not a method in this edition.
•Most scoring part: word problems and the discriminant
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