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Title: Computing: Informatics Exam Discussion 2016
Post by: Aaron on October 19, 2016, 05:37:43 pm

Computing: Informatics Exam Discussion 2016
Exam Date: Friday 11 November, 11:45am - 2:00pm

The time has nearly arrived - this thread serves as a general discussion regarding the Informatics exam for 2016. If you have any uploads or something that doesn't fit the 'general' discussion, please feel free to create another thread. Of course, any repetitive threads will be merged :)

All the best with your Informatics exam this year! Feel free to post here if you have any preliminary thoughts.

Title: Re: Computing: Informatics Exam Discussion 2016
Post by: atarkiller98 on November 11, 2016, 04:08:50 pm

How did everyone go today? I personally found the multiple choice not too challenging however some of the short answers in regards to the case study might have threw me off.
Overall not too bad.

Title: Re: Computing: Informatics Exam Discussion 2016
Post by: JG97 on November 11, 2016, 08:30:03 pm

I thought it was a pretty successful exam overall - normalisation got one question, at most, so I was rapt about that. I didn't finish Section C, got up to question 8 before I had to stop.

Despite that, I'm pretty happy with how I went. It wasn't a beast of an exam, thankfully, just the right amount of challenge.

What do others think?

Title: Re: Computing: Informatics Exam Discussion 2016
Post by: JG97 on November 12, 2016, 07:44:20 am

Quote from: Elinyad on November 11, 2016, 10:56:09 pm

Also how did everyone go on the Gantt chart? The only way that all of the tasks were able to fit was to but the 7 day survey over the weekend, which was pretty sly of VCAA, and I know a lot of people I spoke too didn't get it.

Yeah, that tripped me up a bit, given that it said that Bill did not work on the weekend. I don't think mine was that bad, to be honest, but I like doing GANTT charts on a computer. Doing it on paper is not fun.

Title: Re: Computing: Informatics Exam Discussion 2016
Post by: Aaron on November 13, 2016, 02:55:29 pm

Quote from: JG97 on November 11, 2016, 08:30:03 pm

normalisation got one question, at most, so I was rapt about that.

I bet you were :P I too would have been. It's a very tough concept to understand - I know I had a few issues with normalisation when I studied database management at uni (2nd yr)... so let me tell you, you are definitely not alone in this regard! I did say normalisation would appear on the exam on another thread - glad it wasn't too tough for you though!