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Archived Discussion => 2009 => Mid-year exams => Exam Discussion => Victoria => Physics => Topic started by: kaanonball on August 03, 2009, 03:31:16 pm
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so how did everyone go?
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C+, saw it coming though, did v. well in chem/biol =]
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I think it would be interesting to to another poll like the one /0 did. This time with people's REAL scores. It's anonymous too.
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I got an A+, which I was very happy with as I thought anything could happen with this physics exam. Out of ~25 people at my school, 5 got A+ in physics, compared to 2 last year, so that was good as well.
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I got an A+, which I was very happy with as I thought anything could happen with this physics exam. Out of ~25 people at my school, 5 got A+ in physics, compared to 2 last year, so that was good as well.
HI5!
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A+
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A+
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A
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FML
D+
CAN I STILL GET A 30 IF I GET A C+ ON THE NEXT EXAM?
FML .
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i didnt do physics but at my school only 2 people out of about 30 got an A+
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~ 40 people at my crap school got A+
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hahah ngrising, it that u nguyen? ;)
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yes its the failure, ng
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just a random question.
Since physics is highly competitive this year, i could imagine many people getting full marks in the exam.... does that mean the study score ranking becomes more dependent on SAC marks?
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just a random question.
Since physics is highly competitive this year, i could imagine many people getting full marks in the exam.... does that mean the study score ranking becomes more dependent on SAC marks?
Who knows how poorly/pr0ly people will do on the end of year exam, gotta wait until end of year to decide. :)
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haha my school must suck, no one got an A+ ;/
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just a random question.
Since physics is highly competitive this year, i could imagine many people getting full marks in the exam.... does that mean the study score ranking becomes more dependent on SAC marks?
Who knows how poorly/pr0ly people will do on the end of year exam, gotta wait until end of year to decide. :)
haha. i hope physics people are getting a harder exam for unit 4. however, apparantly there's a rumour saying that all exams are made at the start of the year. considering the unit 3 exam being uber easy, a physics teacher said she wouldn't imagine the standard of the unit 4 one be of much difference.
again, who knows :)
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Yeah the exams have already been written.
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Haha, at my school out of about 90 physics students,
about 11 got A+
30 people got an A
rest got a B or B+
NO ONE got a C !
out of 90?
I got an A though :( *sigh*
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NO ONE got a C !
out of 90?
I got an A though :( *sigh*
Your school must be really pro then.
i don't see anything wrong with an A, its good. your HARDwork deserves this lol
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A+
Yeah, but can they change the unit 4 physics exam by the end of the year (at least until they print it)?
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C+...lame. I actually did quite a lot of study too for it. I just forgot some things during the exam, but remembered them right afterward. :(
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I feel rather stupid compared to everyone else here. Lol, only 8 people at my school did physics out of about 120 year 12 students.
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hey... it's just midyears look forward to end of year :)
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I feel rather stupid compared to everyone else here. Lol, only 8 people at my school did physics out of about 120 students.
Its you school size, rather than anything else.
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C+...lame. I actually did quite a lot of study too for it. I just forgot some things during the exam, but remembered them right afterward. :(
Aww... it's ok!
Take it as a learning curb, hopefully you'll be less stressed for end-of-year and can recall things more easily :)
haha my school must suck, no one got an A+ ;/
Lol... I was the *only* person in my whole year to get an A+ on a midyear.
Congrats to everyone~!!
On the whole, it seems the people on here have a lot to be proud of! ^_^
Ha ha, VN = Pr0ness XD
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Last year when I did physics only 2 people at my school got an A+ for physics (me and another guy).
With physics the unit 4 exam may be about the same in difficulty but take my work: "Do not think because you got an A+ for unit 3 you'll get one for unit 4". I probably didn't put in as much study for the unit 4 exam and finished with a stinking A.
With that decision my plan to get a 40 in one of my subjects was ruined. :'(
Its all cool.
With most subjects if you get say 2 B+'s you can expect 33 - 34 (maybe 35), 2 A's 35 - 38 (maybe 39) and A+ 39 - 50.
Bottom line if you are beating yourself up about getting an A, don't its still a great score to get for an exam.
But juggling all your subjects apart from one or two will be much more of a challenge than this.
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This exam was ridiculous as it doesn't seem to have split the state considering the massive cut off...so the Unit 4 exam will be really important...
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A+
Like half my school.
I think that the high cut off reflects how ridiculous the exam was. Seriously, the difference between an A+ and an A wasn't physics - it was whether or not you coloured in the right bubbles on the multiple choice.
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I feel rather stupid compared to everyone else here. Lol, only 8 people at my school did physics out of about 120 students.
Its you school size, rather than anything else.
It was 120 year 12 students. That is not very small I am sure.
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I feel rather stupid compared to everyone else here. Lol, only 8 people at my school did physics out of about 120 students.
Its you school size, rather than anything else.
It was 120 year 12 students. That is not very small I am sure.
120 yr 12's is small. Mine has a few hundred yr 12's.
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A+
Like half my school.
I think that the high cut off reflects how ridiculous the exam was. Seriously, the difference between an A+ and an A wasn't physics - it was whether or not you coloured in the right bubbles on the multiple choice.
what school?
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Hmm, I don't want to say it again. If you REALLY want to know, it's posted around here somewhere...
Are you a MHS kid?
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lol female + half the school getting A+...
hmm...
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Yeah, it is pretty obvious.
Oh well :)
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...wasn't physics...
This is true of the entire Physics course in VCE. The emphasis is not about learning actual concepts of physics.
Though, when you compare to the Physics subject I took last semester (which was basically a race to see how many concepts we could 'learn' in 12 weeks), it's fun :P
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If VCE Physics was actual Physics people like me would fail >.<
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I'm sure you'd be fine :)
If VCE physics were real physics, I reckon more people would take it... it'd be more enjoyable!
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...wasn't physics...
This is true of the entire Physics course in VCE. The emphasis is not about learning actual concepts of physics.
Though, when you compare to the Physics subject I took last semester (which was basically a race to see how many concepts we could 'learn' in 12 weeks), it's fun :P
lol yeah it was fun doing all our optics stuff in 2 weeks and trying to learn lorentz transformations the week before swotvac (it wasn't me, my subject put relativity right at the end). This semester's physics seems a lot more to the point as last semester's physics seemed to use atleast 1/3 of our lecture going over stuff that obiviously most of us don't know (i.e. a tensor), but then again its a while still until we look at quantum mechanics.
Wait until you guys do uni physics its like atleast 10x harder than school physics (I was expecting like 40% for my exam and got a 79% - I was so, so, so happy). The mechanics you do is the specialist maths equivalent and the relativity you guys looked at was child's play. Ask your physics teacher about lorentz transformations and my physics nightmare (the pole vaulter running at relativistic speeds through a barn and you need to work out if the pole fits in the barn (obviously at rest its length is greater than the length of the barn).
Oh dcc I may have asked you this before but what area of maths are you wanting to major in?
Discrete, pure, applied, statistics or mathematical physics?
I personally am taking majoring in maths into consideration
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so..how many from MHS here?....12K, hey muqi! , appian...who are u? adrian? = / i don't even do physics :idiot2:
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lol hi marcus XD
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Marcus, I'm not from MHS.
I go to one of the few schools that actually does better than you guys :P
*Is going to be hated by all of the MHS guys on this forum*
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Marcus, I'm not from MHS.
I go to one of the few schools that actually does better than you guys :P
*Is going to be hated by all of the MHS guys on this forum*
Meh, we are too cool to be swayed by such remarks. Plus, let's keep school competition out of this. Otherwise, it becomes "we are better than you" BS talk, which is useless and time-wasting.
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Yeah, I just didn't want to post my school up here (I know, what a futile attempt to protect my identity).
The entire MHS cohort was eligible for a derived score though, right?
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does any1 have a copy of the exam but any chance