Maths Methods Exam 1

[fELiX]

Hello

I just wanted a bit of advice/discussion about Exam 1.

This year there are 12 questions instead of 11. Will this need a change of tactics/approach to the exam. Why the extra question?

Last year's exam 1 was way too easy, so this year many people are expecting it to be hard, but how hard can Exam 1 be? What topics are likely to be examined that most students find difficult?

Good luck  :roll:

[Matt89]

Last year's exam 1 was way too easy, so this year many people are expecting it to be hard, but how hard can Exam 1 be? What topics are likely to be examined that most students find difficult?

The mean & median score was 22/40, so it obviously wasnt too easy. You would expect this years exam to be of a similar difficulty, so thats good news for people like you who found last years exam very easy  

[costargh]

Yeh I'm really not buying this whole 'its gonna be wayyyyyy harder'. I got 14/40 on it =) See. Wasnt that easy lol

[Toothpaste]

*hopes to be alive on Friday*

It shouldn't be too ridiculously hard I guess.

[un]

probably absolute values.

But hey, i am pretty noob at methods, so I don't know what VCAA dudes will focus on.

Any suggestion... Ah my good friend coblin :lol:

[asa.hoshi]

i reckon they'll throw in a related rates problem, an absolute values question which requires you solve a number of things. and possibly a hard question.

i hope they'll take off the question that requires you to graph a circular functions. those questions always take the longest to complete. yet they aint worth that many marks too. i think they'll take all the easy questions off  on last year's exam and add some stuff that students never came across.

[AppleXY]

agreed. In a study of the behaviour VCAA's (not mine, baiko's theory in BoS) they ridiculously make it easy when the study design has been renewed and in the following year make it ridiculously hard.

[Toothpaste]

agreed. In a study of the behaviour VCAA's (not mine, baiko's theory in BoS) they ridiculously make it easy when the study design has been renewed and in the following year make it ridiculously hard.

Lol, oh heeeeyy English is new next year!

Oh, shit, and chemistry too.

Wasn't biology new last year? I thought the mid-year was apparently hard.

(accounting's new this year isn't it?)

[un]

Yeh I reckon this years Exam 1 will be a bit tough.

Though, what topics do you think can be the toughest in Exam 1:
(eg: diff, integ,transform,circular,log,prob)

[asa.hoshi]

an ugly circular functions questions which asks you to graph it.  :?

[costargh]

2 days away...

[melanie.dee]

i hope theres not to much trig. or too much graphing. i just went to attempt some practice exam and like everything was a graphing question and i was like fuck that haha

[costargh]

Hey mel. Guess what!
Today I learnt what a log e and e^x graph looks like =)
And I also learnt how to find the inverse of log e graphs =) PROUD?
haha and i also was shown how to complete the square ROFL ROFL!!
(actually just refreshed my memory)
darn im a failure! haha

[melanie.dee]

ahah dont worry, a question where you had to complete the square came up on the neap prac exam.. and id forgotten how to do it haha :oops: somehow i figured out my own way and worked out the answer. except seeing as i couldnt show any working out due to my strange method, id prob only get 1out of 2 lol. gar.

oh and my marks seem to be going down haha. not good

[Defiler]

an ugly circular functions questions which asks you to graph it.  :?

They are fairly easy generally once you've done a few practise ones imho. I use a pencil to mark in the basic graph (e.g. cos(x)) and then adjust it with each transformation and then mark over the final one in pen.