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Title: Difficulty
Post by: Ahmad on November 05, 2007, 04:24:43 pm

=)

Title: Difficulty
Post by: Collin Li on November 05, 2007, 04:33:08 pm

Toothpick, do your magic and post me a copy of the exam paper.

Title: Difficulty
Post by: asa.hoshi on November 05, 2007, 04:33:21 pm

there's a lot of room for error in this year's paper. i kinda struggled with time! couldn't proof read my solutions hence no A+. haha. o well. at least i passed :)

Title: Difficulty
Post by: Matt89 on November 05, 2007, 04:36:16 pm

I thought last years was a tad harder. But i did it about a month ago so there were still holes in my knowledge back then, so its not easy to compare

Title: Difficulty
Post by: Sheikh05 on November 05, 2007, 04:48:57 pm

In all the trial exams I did I had never encountered anything to do with euler's method nor slope fields (I thought they were more to do with exam 2) thus I didn't revise them and woopty doo they were on the exam. Otherwise I thought it was alright.

Title: Difficulty
Post by: asa.hoshi on November 05, 2007, 04:54:16 pm

Quote from: "Sheikh05"

In all the trial exams I did I had never encountered anything to do with euler's method nor slope fields (I thought they were more to do with exam 2) thus I didn't revise them and woopty doo they were on the exam.

SAME....

Title: Difficulty
Post by: bilgia on November 05, 2007, 04:55:26 pm

i think easier than last yr...must mean they will mark it harder????

Title: Difficulty
Post by: Matt89 on November 05, 2007, 05:25:39 pm

Quote from: "Sheikh05"

In all the trial exams I did I had never encountered anything to do with euler's method nor slope fields (I thought they were more to do with exam 2) thus I didn't revise them and woopty doo they were on the exam. Otherwise I thought it was alright.

I'm hoping the majority of the state did the same thing and didnt revise Eulers and slope fields. its a bit mean to hope for the failure of other people, but I think its VCAAs fault for devising such a competitive system

Title: Difficulty
Post by: cara.mel on November 05, 2007, 05:38:20 pm

Quote from: "Matt89"

Quote from: "Sheikh05"

In all the trial exams I did I had never encountered anything to do with euler's method nor slope fields (I thought they were more to do with exam 2) thus I didn't revise them and woopty doo they were on the exam. Otherwise I thought it was alright.

I'm hoping the majority of the state did the same thing and didnt revise Eulers and slope fields. its a bit mean to hope for the failure of other people, but I think its VCAAs fault for devising such a competitive system

I agree with all of that. As cruel as it is, as I was reading I thought 2b and 7 and 8 looked nice because they would lose most of the state.
But then, I know I got part of 7 wrong and I don't have confidence in my 8c either, haha, guess I deserve that :P

Title: Difficulty
Post by: melodrama on November 05, 2007, 07:17:40 pm

why does everyone say they didn't revise euler's? it's part of every pre-2006 exam!

i think it was quite predictable tho; i knew there'd definitely be an implicit one

Title: Difficulty
Post by: Ahmad on November 05, 2007, 07:24:53 pm

I didn't think they'd have the euler stuff + slope field. That was like, the first time I've ever drawn one.

Title: Difficulty
Post by: Galelleo on November 06, 2007, 10:34:16 am

I didnt expect slope field in exam 1, it threw me.
As for the rest, the questions were relatively easy in difficulty, but i thought it was longer than last year, makes it harder in the time limit... i didnt get to check any answers at all :(