what is the exam policy?
I've heard stuff that exam weightings will decrease though to 60% not sure when
Was referring to the new sick policy. Used to be you could go to the exam if you were feeling sick, still try it, but opt to leave early if you didn't think you'd be able to complete it and apply to resit. Now they're ambiguously making it sound like you need to apply up to two days before to even get any.
hmm really just basing it off everyone basically full marking assignments with no actual understanding - I wouldn't be surprised if some people who full marked these got <20% if under test conditions. Also less "tricks" in uni maths so in high school you need to know stuff inside out to not get stuff wrong and in uni you can get through with a superficial understanding since they are nice with their exams.
I mean, you're assuming all of these people isolated themselves completely from society when doing the assignments? They're almost certainly not only working on this with friends, but consulting the internet, their textbooks, as well as spending full days working on it.
Furthermore, I'd argue that the "tricks" is what makes high school less about maths and more superficial. In high school, they need some method to split you up - one of those ways is to take the same concept, but dress it up in a million different ways, and make it obscenely and unnecessarily hard. In the process, you lose the beauty and simplicity of the maths, and are left with what VCAA wants it to be - a way to separate the top end. And how do the top end end up being separated? By how well they can work with the concept? No, it's by which of then remembered the trick for that type of question, and managed to use it right. That's not maths, that's being a computer. Uni maths they don't care about that - instead, they simply figure out what concept they're trying to test, and then ask you about it. No fanciness, no relying on tricks - just simple questions and answers.