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Archived Discussion => Mathematics Exams => Math-Science-Tech Exams => VCE Exam Discussion 2016 => Exam Discussion => Victoria => Specialist Exam Discussion => Topic started by: Sine on September 30, 2016, 03:24:24 pm
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Any discussion for exam revision (assuming for most of you its predominantly practice exams) for specialist maths.
Anyone else noticing that TSSM is challenging? I just did 2013 E1 and took 50mins
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Why has no-one responded to this :P Great thread :)
I haven't done any TSSM papers and I've only done about 4 exams but I've started doing MAV papers. Man, they are significantly harder than the VCAA ones I started with.
Sine, I feel like completing the real exam in 50 mins would be amazing! Or do you find VCAA exam 1 much easier or something?
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Why has no-one responded to this :P Great thread :)
I didn't even know this thread existed... :P
Meanwhile I've tried a few MAV ones and I literally get wrecked by them every single time. Also the Heffernan 2016 ones are on a slightly harder scale than previous ones too, imo, but TSSM ones I'm yet to try. :)
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Yeh ikr did not realise this thread existed :P
MAV is okay, but Kilbaha is pretty tough tbh.
And there were a few mistakes in MAV 16's MC :(
How many is everyone aiming for? in terms of numbers :P
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TSSM 2016 is noticeably harder than their past papers :)
How many is everyone aiming for? in terms of numbers :P
I'm aiming to do 2 papers (tech-free and tech-active) a day, but I'll probably only do tech free haha
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I didn't even know this thread existed... :P
Meanwhile I've tried a few MAV ones and I literally get wrecked by them every single time. Also the Heffernan 2016 ones are on a slightly harder scale than previous ones too, imo, but TSSM ones I'm yet to try. :)
I feel ya! I just noticed it then and thought it deserved love!
I'm so happy that I'm not the only one who gets rekt by these papers. But it'll be worth it!
Yeh ikr did not realise this thread existed :P
MAV is okay, but Kilbaha is pretty tough tbh.
And there were a few mistakes in MAV 16's MC :(
How many is everyone aiming for? in terms of numbers :P
I'm about to do my first Kilbaha paper tomorrow. The 2012 exam 2 as recommended by some of the math legends on this forum.
I'm aming for 8 exam 1 and much, much more exam 2.
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Anyone complete any exams today? How'd you go?
500 posts!! :D
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Anyone complete any exams today? How'd you go?
I was seriously going to do an exam 1 (VCAA 2008 for ref) in my spesh class today, but lol nope my teacher had better ideas than doing that. (Making us compete with the year 11 spesh class with exam qs- nearly got shrekt. D: Was top-notch fun though!) I'm going to do that exam when my study break is over. :P
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Why has no-one responded to this :P Great thread :)
I haven't done any TSSM papers and I've only done about 4 exams but I've started doing MAV papers. Man, they are significantly harder than the VCAA ones I started with.
Sine, I feel like completing the real exam in 50 mins would be amazing! Or do you find VCAA exam 1 much easier or something?
VCAA I can usually do in 30-40mins I'm aiming to do it in 40mins so I can check all my answers thoroughly.
Yeh ikr did not realise this thread existed :P
MAV is okay, but Kilbaha is pretty tough tbh.
And there were a few mistakes in MAV 16's MC :(
How many is everyone aiming for? in terms of numbers :P
Not too sure on numbers right now as a i only started my exam log around 5-10 exams in, but as a minimum from now to the exam will try to finish all the VCAA ones and 2016 trials that i have.
I was seriously going to do an exam 1 (VCAA 2008 for ref) in my spesh class today, but lol nope my teacher had better ideas than doing that. (Making us compete with the year 11 spesh class with exam qs- nearly got shrekt. D: Was top-notch fun though!) I'm going to do that exam when my study break is over. :P
2008 is apparently one of the hardest so i'm gonna leave it till closer to to the end.
Currently I've done all the VCAA's except 2005, 2008 and 2013-2015 + sample exam. Gonna do 2013 now!
...Anyone lose motivation to check answers before correcting the exam if the exam is not a VCAA one?
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I did the VCAA 2014 exam 1 about 3 days ago and couldn't do these questions, I was hoping someone could help me:
1) With the first attachment, I just got lost. I felt like I had the answer and then I went blank. I started off by recognising the need for implicit differentiation and then continued before I just thought I was doing it wrong and stopped
2) I just had no idea with this. Any help would be appreciated
3) I seem to suck at finding the range of these things.
Thank you :)
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I did the VCAA 2014 exam 1 about 3 days ago and couldn't do these questions, I was hoping someone could help me:
1) With the first attachment, I just got lost. I felt like I had the answer and then I went blank. I started off by recognising the need for implicit differentiation and then continued before I just thought I was doing it wrong and stopped
2) I just had no idea with this. Any help would be appreciated
3) I seem to suck at finding the range of these things.
Thank you :)
I've attached some working, hope it half makes sense (normal gradient should say -1/(dy/dx) sorry!)
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I've attached my worked solutions to 2014 Exam 1. Had to drop off Q1 to stay under the 512KB limit. Hope it helps.
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Good luck everyone on friday and monday! Ill be bloody hella active on those two days haha ;)
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Seems like no ones interested in spec, how did you guys go?
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Does anyone have a copy of the exam?
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Ugh I'm so annoyed.
Conceptually was an easy enough exam but forgot to take my logic in with me.
I literally forgot what an integer was kms and arithmetic errors will probably prevent me from getting full marks for any questions. Forgot how to do separation of variables, miscalculated linear dependence, stuffed complex, the list goes on
Only want/need low 30's but that might be unlikely now...
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dont do spesh, but all my mates say it was an easy exam, like really easy exam, but small mistakes fked them over ahha
is this a repeat of 2011 exam 1 with a ridic. A+ cutoff of 39/40? LOL
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dont do spesh
How about we hear from someone who actually did the exam...
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dont do spesh, but all my mates say it was an easy exam, like really easy exam, but small mistakes fked them over ahha
is this a repeat of 2011 exam 1 with a ridic. A+ cutoff of 39/40? LOL
It was an easy af exam however the questions had all these shit tricks so i would say 38~40/40 for A+
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dont do spesh, but all my mates say it was an easy exam, like really easy exam, but small mistakes fked them over ahha
is this a repeat of 2011 exam 1 with a ridic. A+ cutoff of 39/40? LOL
Yeah nah don't think so
Probably 36/37 like usual
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not a bad exam, struggled with the second last question and finding max force and also getting y in terms of x on last question as it was y^2/2 +2y=... or something
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not a bad exam, struggled with the second last question and finding max force and also getting y in terms of x on last question as it was y^2/2 +2y=... or something
I'm sure you can take that tricky question into account when estimating the A+ cuttoff. If no one really got it except a few people, it shouldn't be too dramatic in comparison with previous years.
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How about we hear from someone who actually did the exam...
hahaha fair enough :P
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Hey fam! Suggested answer thread will be here - Suggested Answers and Discussion for Specialist Exam 1, if we could shift the discussion that way it would be genuinely fantastic :)