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Archived Discussion => Mathematics and Science => 2013 => Exam Discussion => Victoria => Psychology => Topic started by: Bluegirl on November 01, 2013, 05:21:23 pm
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I know there's the other post, but I don't want to see what other people have written and freak myself out haha. Sooo here's a post without answers people wrote.
I just wanted to know what you all thought of the exam.
Time wise, what questions didn't you like, do you think you stuffed any up, are you confident. Anything really.
By what I read/how I feel, I think I stuffed a few of the SA up.
Taxi one, hemispheric specialisation, possibly a few more.
I liked MC.
Section C was a surprise and I think it would have confused a few people
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Wise idea - my teacher was sitting outside the examination room with the exam in his hand and was going through it with all of us afterwards - i kind of just walked away, i don't want to think about it until i have to.
I thought it was a lot easier than I expected, i was expecting a lot more on the neural basis of learning and memory, particularly because it wasn't covered last year and would be a question that would distinguish A+ students from B+ students. Timewise was fine, I did the short answers first and had planned my multiple answers during reading time and did them second, which left me with about 45 minutes to write a plan for the extended response and then wrote it!
I agree, section C is going to have a poor average mark across the state just because of how easily it could have been to misinterpret the question!
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I found it okay, but I was rushed for time.
Multiple Choice was very easy for me.
Didn't like these Short-Answer Questions:
* Question 3 - The lady with French and the effect on Brain structures.
* Question about the Hempisheric Specialisation
* Allostasis Question
I think I did bad for the Extended Response. I stuffed up Question 5, and then had to change it around but I didn't finish changing it. =/
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Yeah I didn't like the French one either.
Not sure how I went on section C. I did what it said but might lose a couple marks. Ah well it's done now.
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i read the clock wrong and panicked and rushed some of the short answer and the extended response, and then realised i still had an extra half hour left. :-[
managed to go back and rewrite stuff though so it wasn't too bad i guess. don't think i did amazingly, but hopefully i did ok
did anyone else think it was really heavily focused on memory stuff? ???
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Yeah i noticed that too. There wasn't much on learning. I was expecting an observational learning question or something
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Yeah i noticed that too. There wasn't much on learning. I was expecting an observational learning question or something
There was an Observational Learning Question, but it was a Multiple Choice Question. Remember Harry and Max or something? The five year old learning by observation how to setup a Home Entertainment system.
I laughed when I read that. :P
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Ah, yeah. I thought there'd be one with the elements or something too.
I guess I'm feeling slightly more confident seeing how many people slipped up on the research report.
Would they really take it into consideration seeing how many people slipped up?
Most of the questions I was iffy about, other people are too. So I'm not the only one :D
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Ah, yeah. I thought there'd be one with the elements or something too.
I guess I'm feeling slightly more confident seeing how many people slipped up on the research report.
Would they really take it into consideration seeing how many people slipped up?
Most of the questions I was iffy about, other people are too. So I'm not the only one :D
Well, they might be a bit more lenient in their marking, or the A+ Cutoff will just drop a bit more to adjust accordingly.
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Ah I feel so lost already! Psych wasn't just a subject for me, but a passion. Can't wait to do it at uni.
Feels so weird.
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Can someone give me an example of what they wrote for the extended response... Just worried I stuffed mine all up!
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Can someone give me an example of what they wrote for the extended response... Just worried I stuffed mine all up!
Take mine with a grain of salt.
- Set P-value at < 0.05.
- 60 HS students conveniently sampled
- control group: no sleep deprivation, experimental group: 24 hours sleep deprivation and some students 2 hours of sleep deprivation (8 - 2= 6 hrs).
- don't know too much about research methods, etc, so I went ahead and did random sample, picking out of the hat to whichever group and independent groups.
- extraneous variables could be control group taking sleeping pill to sleep longer, experimental group taking amphetamines or something or caffeine.
- could be controlled by having them in the lab with direct observation all the time.
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I think my main concern was going through the multiple choice quickly. Scared I'm going to lose heaps of marks from missing important words.
Or did anyone else do it really quickly because they found them easy?
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I think my main concern was going through the multiple choice quickly. Scared I'm going to lose heaps of marks from missing important words.
Or did anyone else do it really quickly because they found them easy?
I found them pretty easy, but I spent 50 minutes on them.
How quickly did you do them?
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Can't remember exactly but like, 35-40 minutes possibly. I flew through them. As soon as I read the question I knew the answer and then selected it after reading the answers.
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Can't remember exactly but like, 35-40 minutes possibly. I flew through them. As soon as I read the question I knew the answer and then selected it after reading the answers.
If you did most in your Reading Time as well, then I guess that would say about right. Some of those Questions did make you check your answer twice and they gave you a few hints here and there to make sure you did.
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I guess I did about half in reading time, forgot about that. Makes me feel a tad better, thanks.
Yeah I had to go over a few.
In the end I picked a random question, checked it making sure I put the same answer.
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I guess I did about half in reading time, forgot about that. Makes me feel a tad better, thanks.
Yeah I had to go over a few.
In the end I picked a random question, checked it making sure I put the same answer.
LOL! No worries. :)
Smart choice about the Random Question bit. I couldn't look over my answers because I was fixing up Extended Response Question 5. >:(
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People in my exam room were sitting there with like 20 minutes to spare. I don't know why.
And my friend's brother left at 11.
Yeah but could have missed the ones that needed checking haha.
I still can't get over that. I mean, I'd never written an experiment before. But I'm proud of how I did in it ha
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People in my exam room were sitting there with like 20 minutes to spare. I don't know why.
And my friend's brother left at 11.
Yeah but could have missed the ones that needed checking haha.
I still can't get over that. I mean, I'd never written an experiment before. But I'm proud of how I did in it ha
Some people at our school gave up. LOL! They say that its their "10% Subject". LOL! :P
I thought that no one was allowed to leave the exam room unless of sickness or something urgent. ???
Well done! :)
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That's what I thought. Might depend on the school?
Lol. That's silly
Thanks! You seem pretty confident?
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Shouldn't depend on the school - Suppose to be rules for the whole state because anyone leaving the room could still cheat and give answers to someone else. =/
No, I'm not really confident at all! :P
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Yeah that's true! Weird.
Okay haha. I think everyone feels that way :P
What do you think you got mark wise?
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Yeah that's true! Weird.
Okay haha. I think everyone feels that way :P
What do you think you got mark wise?
To be honest, I actually don't know what Score I'm looking at. Usually I can come out of a SAC/Exam knowing what I'm gonna get and its usually on par with the actual Score I get, but this is probably the first time that I can't do this. =/
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Yeah, exactly the same here. Not knowing how I did just makes you worry more :P
It's weird not being confident for a psych test :p
I'm glad I came on here, because my friends are really disappointed and stuff. But coming on here and seeing how everyone is rattled; even the best kids, makes me feel a bit more confident.
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What did u guys say for allostasis quesion?
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What did u guys say for allostasis quesion?
I made reference to allostatic load, the potentiality of allostatic overload, and how the prolonged presence of cortisol in the blood could lead to various stress-related illnesses. Essentially, I waffled my way through it.
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I mentioned allostatic overload and how the increased presence and secretion of stress hormones could leave the body with wear and tear, weakening the immune system leading to stress related illnesses.
I didn't mention the specific hormones though. Woops
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For the extended response I wrote something about making one group stay awake all night and wake the other group up every hour. Idk though found the exam really weird.