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trial exam threads
« on: November 11, 2009, 05:42:49 pm »
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Usually people will have trouble with a few questions from a practice exam and will post them in separate threads, or perhaps in their own question thread. However, this can become very disorganised. People who do practice exams at a later date will likely repost the same questions and if there is a mistake in the exam you can be guaranteed that many people will be asking the same question "why is my answer different from the practice exam's?". This would result in lots of redundant threads.

If we have a few stickied threads, or maybe even a sub-board dedicated to practice exam discussion (like the actual end of year exam discussions we have) it could make things a lot neater, and people who do their practice exams late and want to clarify something can read/post in that particular thread, rather than making another one.

This idea doesn't have to be restricted to practice exams of course, you could have similar threads for checkpoints or textbooks (although these might grow too big and unwieldly and might need dividing up).

An issue I can see here is the site's policy toward practice exams, which I am quite confused about actually...

Anyhow how does it sound?

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Re: trial exam threads
« Reply #1 on: November 11, 2009, 06:21:31 pm »
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I like this idea. Maybe the first post will contain the exam and solutions, and questions after that. :)

That'll be a lot more organised, but a lot more blatantly against the rules.
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Re: trial exam threads
« Reply #2 on: November 11, 2009, 06:23:30 pm »
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I like this idea. Maybe the first post will contain the exam and solutions, and questions after that. :)

That'll be a lot more organised, but a lot more blatantly against the rules.
Or just the solutions? Like a thread called Heffernan 2009 Specialist Mathematics then the first post links to any problems that people in the thread have along with the solutions
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Re: trial exam threads
« Reply #3 on: December 16, 2009, 10:16:35 pm »
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this is a brilliant idea (are there any legal issues though?)
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Re: trial exam threads
« Reply #4 on: December 16, 2009, 10:33:45 pm »
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this is a brilliant idea (are there any legal issues though?)

Well, we're not actually posting up the actual exam so legality shouldn't be an issue.  We're discussing what is on the exam and I'm pretty sure the terms and conditions don't say that we're not allowed to discuss the solutions with other people, regardless of what medium we use.

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Re: trial exam threads
« Reply #5 on: December 16, 2009, 10:36:27 pm »
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this is a brilliant idea (are there any legal issues though?)

No, as long as you don't post the actual exam.

Actually I think you could get away with posting a couple of the questions, but just not the whole thing...
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