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Archived Discussion => 2009 => Mid-year exams => Exam Discussion => Victoria => Chemistry => Topic started by: TrueTears on June 10, 2009, 02:38:15 pm
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Long exam! Finished with about 10 mins to check, but that was pretty hard !
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i just checked Mao's answers,
and yeah, its harddd
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Long exam! Finished with about 10 mins to check, but that was pretty hard !
you say pretty hard .. .. . i thought it was insane == i guessed like heaps ==
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I had to do the MQ really fast so I could get enough time for short answer.
Many people at my school didn't finish :(
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i know, i feel so sorry for them ....
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i know, i feel so sorry for them ....
How so?
It was a hard exam IMO.
'Grats to you that you did well.
I worked until the last second. Didn't get time to check. Missed out on a 2 mark question.
Already spotted heaps of mistakes by glancing over Mao's answers.
FML
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... nah i don't think i did well..
>< i just finished it on time, and a friend of mine has only last question to go and then the times out.....
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I phailed.
Time to go and cut myself ={
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Yeah i like finished like a minute before but got heaps of mistakes looking at Mao's solutions....:(
Man no matter how much prep i did i don't think i expected that....
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Jesus good exam!
My schools Chemistry class finished all on time. accept for one kid.
Fairly happy!
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Yep, it was harder than expected. I almost guessed 2 MC and completely skipped 8 and 10 (& possiblly another)
Does anyone have a copy of their answers? I wrote all my multi-choice and a few written answers in my databook so i can compare.....
10 short answer q's was way too much :)
Q2d)
Part i) How does Na form salt with (whatever the other was)
i just replaced the H from carboxylic with Na, just as if it were Na+ cation and COO- anion....
Part ii) Why is above Na salt more water-soluble than aspirin?
I said cause Na+ ionic compounds are always water-soluble...
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Haha I said that Na is water soluble too:)
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Haha I said that Na is water soluble too:)
someone on boredofstudies forum said something about it being polar....maybe being both polar and Na+ made it soluble?.....
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I RICKED ROLLED THE EXAMINER!!!!!!!!!!
I WROTE THE ENTIRE SONGS LYRICS, THEN I WROTE " MR EXAMINER HAVE BEEN RICKED ROLLED "
BEST MOMENT IN YM EXAM...
ROFLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLL
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How the hell did you have time to do that goodguys?
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well i didnt do the last question,
and because im making chem my last...
i said to my self, why not make the examiner a little note...
so i rick and rolled !!!!
it was the best moment, and the examiner was looking at me.. thinking why i was smiling and everyone around me was about to cry...
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Talked about charge + dissociation in solution + other random Unit 2 stuff...
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holy mother of ****
that was a ridiculous exam.
by far harder than any prac exam i've done or last years one.
i didnt understand half the questions!!
and thinking back, in my rush to go back and answer questions i left, i missed the Na one. bugger
guessed a fair few of MC
refusing to look at the answers
dont want to be more depressed haha just damn glad its over!!
my whole school found it difficult, and i think most people have, so it'll have to be marked up.
but man...AWFUL
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I RICKED ROLLED THE EXAMINER!!!!!!!!!!
I WROTE THE ENTIRE SONGS LYRICS, THEN I WROTE " MR EXAMINER HAVE BEEN RICKED ROLLED "
BEST MOMENT IN YM EXAM...
ROFLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLL
..... if I was the examiner, I would have gave you full marks for that question, just for a laugh!!
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I got Fucked over by the VCAA
seriously, why the fuck is this exam worth 73 marks, when it was so long. Also, why was there such a long paragraph on the last page ffs
aww well
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I reckon I did ok except for the volumetric analyses questions... Not to mention question 10... What on Earth was that?
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yeh q10... they leave the hardest till the end. I had like 5 mins to do it. I hope chem goes up by like 20 this year... ill need it
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yeh q10... they leave the hardest till the end. I had like 5 mins to do it. I hope chem goes up by like 20 this year... ill need it
The scaling wont be adjusted based on the difficulty of the exam.
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yeh q10... they leave the hardest till the end. I had like 5 mins to do it. I hope chem goes up by like 20 this year... ill need it
Except for last year's exam. Last year's exam had a pretty easy question at the end.
Just a little side note to extend on kurrymuncher's comment, isn't scaling based on how well Chem students do in their other subjects and not the difficulty of the paper?
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yeh q10... they leave the hardest till the end. I had like 5 mins to do it. I hope chem goes up by like 20 this year... ill need it
Except for last year's exam. Last year's exam had a pretty easy question at the end.
Just a little side note to extend on kurrymuncher's comment, isn't scaling based on how well Chem students do in their other subjects and not the difficulty of the paper?
yeah, thats exactly right.
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So if you want scaling, go study hard for your other subjects...
although that would presumably mean you study less for chem...
which would means you end up the same place anyway...
...so don't rely on scaling :)
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I got Fucked over by the VCAA
seriously, why the fuck is this exam worth 73 marks, when it was so long. Also, why was there such a long paragraph on the last page ffs
aww well
i didn't even read the paragraph so i left the whole q out. meh
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yeh q10... they leave the hardest till the end. I had like 5 mins to do it. I hope chem goes up by like 20 this year... ill need it
Except for last year's exam. Last year's exam had a pretty easy question at the end.
Just a little side note to extend on kurrymuncher's comment, isn't scaling based on how well Chem students do in their other subjects and not the difficulty of the paper?
yeah, thats exactly right.
In that case, scaling shouldn't change too much (if at all) this year.
Now that I think about it, it's funny how the Chem paper was hard but the physics one everyone is saying was easy.
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I RICKED ROLLED THE EXAMINER!!!!!!!!!!
I WROTE THE ENTIRE SONGS LYRICS, THEN I WROTE " MR EXAMINER HAVE BEEN RICKED ROLLED "
BEST MOMENT IN YM EXAM...
ROFLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLL
How did you remember the lyrics :S
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That was such a hard exam, i doubt anyone will get FULL MARKS.
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That was such a hard exam, i doubt anyone will get FULL MARKS.
mao
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LoL
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IT WAS SO EFFING LONG >_________________<
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SO EFFING HARD TOO!!!
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:'( :'( :'( :'(
it was awful
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Just out of curiosity how long did it take you to do the exam Mao
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oh yuck. i thought us 2008 chem-ers had it bad last year and i told my brother yesterday, NO WAY will yours top ours. i come home today and he's like guess what? 10 questions. i felt soo sorrry for you guys who did it this year! and it doesnt look that easy either.
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I RICKED ROLLED THE EXAMINER!!!!!!!!!!
I WROTE THE ENTIRE SONGS LYRICS, THEN I WROTE " MR EXAMINER HAVE BEEN RICKED ROLLED "
BEST MOMENT IN YM EXAM...
ROFLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLL
How did you remember the lyrics :S
i know the song...
my favourite song,
you usually learn when you play video games.
"rick rolled"
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fark man.. it was the hardest.. i was close to tears...didn't get to finish it,,,,,,,,didn't get to check my answers... guessed most of them.....
it's quiet sad.... preparing for 6 months... and not getting to finish like 6 questions....and in the end getting similar marks to someone who didn't even study... trully sad..
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IT WAS SO EFFING LONG >_________________<
SO EFFING HARD TOO!!!
That's what she said.
Yes damn that chem exam ><
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fark man.. it was the hardest.. i was close to tears...didn't get to finish it,,,,,,,,didn't get to check my answers... guessed most of them.....
it's quiet sad.... preparing for 6 months... and not getting to finish like 6 questions....and in the end getting similar marks to someone who didn't even study... trully sad..
:) I feel your pain.
I sacrificed so many subjects to study for that exam >.> I know a lot of people didn't, and they probably got better scores than I did.
And now I'm going to fail my methods sac next week because I haven't done methods at all in like, two months.
Chem and Bio ate my life.
Screw Bio, that was simple, but Chemistry? D:
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fark man.. it was the hardest.. i was close to tears...didn't get to finish it,,,,,,,,didn't get to check my answers... guessed most of them.....
it's quiet sad.... preparing for 6 months... and not getting to finish like 6 questions....and in the end getting similar marks to someone who didn't even study... trully sad..
:) I feel your pain.
I sacrificed so many subjects to study for that exam >.> I know a lot of people didn't, and they probably got better scores than I did.
And now I'm going to fail my methods sac next week because I haven't done methods at all in like, two months.
Chem and Bio ate my life.
Screw Bio, that was simple, but Chemistry? D:
yeah behind on like 3 chapters for spesh.....
did so much for chem and what would i get back T_T
i've never seen 10 questions on chem exam before ever.... has anyone else here seen them???
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Extra LONG
WAY HARDER than last year (those guys had it easy!)
pretty much NO straightforward questions (apart from like 2 organic chem q's)
they call that MCQ!!!! wtf man!! more like another few short answers!
I AM PRAYING for some REALLY LOW cutoffs!!!!!
any chance of 60% = A ?? :-\
ah well not much we can do about it now ............ :-[
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worked my fucking ass off
and still get shit =]
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Exam was unbelievably hard. There are people I know that are hoping to get a double digit percentage.
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fark man.. it was the hardest.. i was close to tears...didn't get to finish it,,,,,,,,didn't get to check my answers... guessed most of them.....
it's quiet sad.... preparing for 6 months... and not getting to finish like 6 questions....and in the end getting similar marks to someone who didn't even study... trully sad..
:) I feel your pain.
I sacrificed so many subjects to study for that exam >.> I know a lot of people didn't, and they probably got better scores than I did.
And now I'm going to fail my methods sac next week because I haven't done methods at all in like, two months.
Chem and Bio ate my life.
Screw Bio, that was simple, but Chemistry? D:
yeah behind on like 3 chapters for spesh.....
did so much for chem and what would i get back T_T
i've never seen 10 questions on chem exam before ever.... has anyone else here seen them???
No. I did about 22 practice exams, all in time, and I finished them all IN TIME bar one of them.
So much for practice exams being one of the best ways you can prepare for what to expect in the exam. That worked out well, I can see.
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Just out of curiosity how long did it take you to do the exam Mao
Probably slightly longer than 90 minutes. [I didn't have reading time though]
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How much of a "fail" on this exam mean to your ENTER?
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Did about ~25-30 practice exams leading up to this, yet I was never so stretched for time in an exam, finished 5 minutes to go. I had no idea about the last two parts of the myrcene question, and I made a couple of dumb mistakes throughout the paper. Overall, I found the content of the exam fine, but it was far too long for the allotted time. When I walked out, I thought i lost about 20 marks, but after checking my solutions against mao's(didn't clear my calculator :)), I think I got 63-64/73.
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sigh . .. . kinda depressed now, i got like 53/73 == i think thats a 'B'
so if im averaging low A+'s in sacs and 'B' in this exam, if i got an 'A+' in the next exam can i still get 40 RAW ?
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don't give up yet :) Wait till grade distribution is published. I have a feeling the A+ cut offs will be a lot lower this year.
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sigh . .. . kinda depressed now, i got like 53/73 == i think thats a 'B'
so if im averaging low A+'s in sacs and 'B' in this exam, if i got an 'A+' in the next exam can i still get 40 RAW ?
don't think it would be a B.
It's probably not a valid comparison, but last year Biology Unit 4 exam was considered difficult and the A+ mark was 53/75. So even if it doesn't go that low, I would think/hope that low 60s would give A+. Actually, last year you could lose 10 marks to get an A+. I think it will be a lot more than that this year considering all the people that didn't finish.
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I'm just wondering is there anyone else on this board who thought they actually did well on the exam?
I compared my answers to Mao's and to my teacher's answers and I either got 68/73 or 70/73 depending on consequential marking.
I'll let you know that I found it to be quite tough too. There were a number of questions I reread and saw I wrote the wrong thing. The poor examiner who marks my paper seeing half the question crossed out. It normally only takes me 30 mins to do the extended response but this took 55 mins and 15 mins for multiple choice. Mind you the other top students in my class didn't do as well with some getting 50s
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so did anyone walk out of the exam feeling good?
i sure didnt
im still pretty guttered about the whole thing :|
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yeah, I felt pretty good... mainly because we had strippers for supervisors.
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yeah, I felt pretty good... mainly because we had strippers for supervisors.
Wow, that must have been distracting. :)
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yeah, all the boys could only use one hand to actually finish the exam, the other hand was preoccupied.
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VCCA is evil... evil to the bone....did they presume that all smart pplz will be doing chem this year,,, and they might as well made it challenging for them?????.. did they not freakin realise there is some average folks out there too,, who would like a decent mark for the effort they put in.... not a freakin 45% which will be scaled.. to let me see a 50%....hmm very satisfying indeed...i may as well should of been partying hard all those months like others who would get similar to me....
I just hate VCCA......and plz say VCCA is fair.....
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What does VCCA stand for ? :P
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yeah, all the boys could only use one hand to actually finish the exam, the other hand was preoccupied.
haha
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What does VCCA stand for ? :P
...Victorian Curriculum and Assessment Authority
...also stands for many other things I'm not going to mention :P
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nah he wrote VCCA
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Ah...right...
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nah he wrote VCCA
I think he means VCAA :P
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I'll have a guenah he wrote VCCA
I think he means VCAA :P
lol:), i didnt even see that.....oops :-[
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How the hell did you have time to do that goodguys?
He's a chem failure like me. That's how ;). LOL
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That was such a hard exam, i doubt anyone will get FULL MARKS.
There will be heaps that will get full marks. My friend did ;).