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Archived Discussion => Business Studies => 2011 => End-of-year exams => Exam Discussion => Victoria => Economics => Topic started by: MaddehZ on November 10, 2011, 03:39:15 pm

Title: cut off for a+ ?
Post by: MaddehZ on November 10, 2011, 03:39:15 pm
i felt it was harder than last years in some places but also easier...

74/90 was the cutoff last year

im thinking it will be around 72/90 based on how everyone apparantly felt about the multi
Title: Re: cut off for a+ ?
Post by: Hylton on November 10, 2011, 03:57:38 pm
i felt it was harder than last years in some places but also easier...

74/90 was the cutoff last year

im thinking it will be around 72/90 based on how everyone apparantly felt about the multi

multi were easy
Title: Re: cut off for a+ ?
Post by: Tashi on November 10, 2011, 04:02:03 pm
I thought it was easy.. probably around the same or maybe higher?
Title: Re: cut off for a+ ?
Post by: RossiJ on November 10, 2011, 05:16:45 pm
i felt it was harder than last years in some places but also easier...

74/90 was the cutoff last year

im thinking it will be around 72/90 based on how everyone apparantly felt about the multi

multi were easy

<3 haha
Title: Re: cut off for a+ ?
Post by: azure on November 10, 2011, 05:20:44 pm
Probably higher... SA was quite accessible... MC were also straightforward besides a couple odd ones.
Title: Re: cut off for a+ ?
Post by: chrisjb on November 10, 2011, 07:16:21 pm
I'm thinking it will be a quite high cut off. There was no 8 mark question to differentiate students, there were only really two multis that were tricky, the vast majority of the questions were 2-4 marks (even the six mark questions were just two three mark questions) so the cut off should be quite high...

I would predict 77 or 78.
Title: Re: cut off for a+ ?
Post by: BigFunt on November 10, 2011, 08:15:41 pm
I'm thinking it will be a quite high cut off. There was no 8 mark question to differentiate students, there were only really two multis that were tricky, the vast majority of the questions were 2-4 marks (even the six mark questions were just two three mark questions) so the cut off should be quite high...

I would predict 77 or 78.

harder marking?
Title: Re: cut off for a+ ?
Post by: Random_Guy on November 11, 2011, 08:36:40 pm
This exam was so easy. It will go up by heaps for sure.
Title: Re: cut off for a+ ?
Post by: justinh_93 on November 12, 2011, 08:41:03 am
I think it was much easier, as long as you read the newspaper and kept up to date with the news you would of done pretty well. Unlike previous years, where you had to use a lot of statistics. I heard from somewhere that perhaps the examiners are trying to make economics easier so more people will do the subject, because a lot of people are choosing BM over economics.

I predict it'd probably go up to 76 or 78.
Title: Re: cut off for a+ ?
Post by: nGsTheSky on December 01, 2011, 01:33:02 am
Everyone says 'it was so easy', but keep in mind that the only people posting here are all really good students.

I do, however, agree that it was easier than last year. I'm thinking that the cutoff will sit around 75-78. I just pray that I managed that. Imagine applying for Commerce at Melb without a 40+ in Economics  :-[


Title: Re: cut off for a+ ?
Post by: Hutchoo on December 01, 2011, 01:56:41 am
Everyone says 'it was so easy', but keep in mind that the only people posting here are all really good students.

I do, however, agree that it was easier than last year. I'm thinking that the cutoff will sit around 75-78. I just pray that I managed that. Imagine applying for Commerce at Melb without a 40+ in Economics  :-[



Lol, eco isn't a prereq... and a lot of people do commerce without economics
Title: Re: cut off for a+ ?
Post by: ShortBlackChick on December 01, 2011, 12:18:48 pm
Everyone says 'it was so easy', but keep in mind that the only people posting here are all really good students.

I do, however, agree that it was easier than last year. I'm thinking that the cutoff will sit around 75-78. I just pray that I managed that. Imagine applying for Commerce at Melb without a 40+ in Economics  :-[


Lol, eco isn't a prereq... and a lot of people do commerce without economics

I think she means that you'd sort of be expected to have done decently in the subject that you wish to pursue in further studies. While its not really a pre-req, you'd wonder what a person who got 25 for eco would be doing, doing a major in eco in uni. Given that they'd done eco of course.
Title: Re: cut off for a+ ?
Post by: nGsTheSky on December 02, 2011, 01:53:14 am
Everyone says 'it was so easy', but keep in mind that the only people posting here are all really good students.

I do, however, agree that it was easier than last year. I'm thinking that the cutoff will sit around 75-78. I just pray that I managed that. Imagine applying for Commerce at Melb without a 40+ in Economics  :-[



Lol, eco isn't a prereq... and a lot of people do commerce without economics

Yes, I know, but like kaz said, it is offputting to fail in the subject that you want to build a career around.
Title: Re: cut off for a+ ?
Post by: sunintherain on January 06, 2012, 09:01:34 am
a lot of people are choosing BM over economics.

True, like 3-5 kids picked eco at my school whilst around 50 choose BM