Hey Luca!
I completed my Unit 3 data test last year and I do have some practice questions that I'll attach. I also wanna note some things that really helped me while I was studying for it:
- The QCAA practice data test, which can be found here is extremely useful
- Looking at the cognitive verbs you could come across in the data test. For the apply questions it will be verbs like calculate, identify, and determine, for analyse questions you could see classify, contrast, and distinguish, and for the interpret questions (~40% of the marks in the exam), you could expect to see compare, extrapolate, predict, and draw a conclusion (The big ones in my test were determine, calculate, contrast, infer, predict, and draw a conclusion)
- If your test is anything like mine, I would make sure you are comfortable with r2 values and error bars (make sure you are able to draw a conclusion about the significance/reliability of data by analysing any r2 values and/or error bars)
- I would recommend going through the unit 3 section of your textbook and finding any graphs or data that have any questions with them
I would like to stress, however, that as I don't know what your data test will be like, I don't know how helpful all of this is. My data test, for example, was really really difficult and so so different from any practice tests that I did. But just working on your ability to analyse a graph and data will help you approach any question.
The document attached is a mixture of questions from my textbook, questions my teacher gave me and questions I came up with myself.
Hope this helps! Good luck! :)
Hey Luca!
I completed my Unit 3 data test last year and I do have some practice questions that I'll attach. I also wanna note some things that really helped me while I was studying for it:
- The QCAA practice data test, which can be found here is extremely useful
- Looking at the cognitive verbs you could come across in the data test. For the apply questions it will be verbs like calculate, identify, and determine, for analyse questions you could see classify, contrast, and distinguish, and for the interpret questions (~40% of the marks in the exam), you could expect to see compare, extrapolate, predict, and draw a conclusion (The big ones in my test were determine, calculate, contrast, infer, predict, and draw a conclusion)
- If your test is anything like mine, I would make sure you are comfortable with r2 values and error bars (make sure you are able to draw a conclusion about the significance/reliability of data by analysing any r2 values and/or error bars)
- I would recommend going through the unit 3 section of your textbook and finding any graphs or data that have any questions with them
I would like to stress, however, that as I don't know what your data test will be like, I don't know how helpful all of this is. My data test, for example, was really really difficult and so so different from any practice tests that I did. But just working on your ability to analyse a graph and data will help you approach any question.
The document attached is a mixture of questions from my textbook, questions my teacher gave me and questions I came up with myself.
Hope this helps! Good luck! :)
Hey! Sorry, one more thing. Do you have an answers sheet to those problems linked above? Cheers
I just checked my computer and I don't seem to have an electronic copy of the answers, but when I get home I'll check to see if I still have the version I printed out with answers.Ah! Not a problem, Ill send some things through when I get home! Thanks so much!
I'll put the answers in this thread if I do find them, if not I would be more than happy to read over what you have written and see if I can remember the answers
So I've had a look, and it turns out I only have the answers for the question with the Bray-Curtis and Unifrac table.Ah. I haven't touched that in class yet thanks for looking though! We have a mock test today. I think ill do pretty good, we have only learnt the transect stuff, abundance, distribution, simpsons diversity etc etc etc.
Q1. Identify the top 5 explanatory abiotic variable for Unifrac based upon r2 valuesanswer1. MAT (˚C)a
2. C/Na
3. Soil Nitrate (mg*kg-1)
4. Soil pH
5. MAP (˚C)a
Q2. Determine 5 explanatory abiotic variables for Bray-Curtis with the least correlation based upon Pearson r values (P).answer1. C/Na
2. Soil pH
3. MAT (˚C)a
4. TC(%)a
5. Soil Nitrate (mg*kg-1)
We have a mock test today. I think ill do pretty good, we have only learnt the transect stuff, abundance, distribution, simpsons diversity etc etc etc.
Ah. I haven't touched that in class yet thanks for looking though! We have a mock test today. I think ill do pretty good, we have only learnt the transect stuff, abundance, distribution, simpsons diversity etc etc etc.
Again, thank you so much :)
Hey, how do you think you went? :)
Good luck - let us know how you go!I smashed it! 94%. Can't thank you enough Smithy! Those pointers really helped. The test was pushed up a few days so I'll be sitting the real one this Friday. I got a bit confused with p-values, but other than that not too bad :)
I smashed it! 94%. Can't thank you enough Smithy! Those pointers really helped. The test was pushed up a few days so I'll be sitting the real one this Friday. I got a bit confused with p-values, but other than that not too bad :)
I smashed it! 94%. Can't thank you enough Smithy! Those pointers really helped. The test was pushed up a few days so I'll be sitting the real one this Friday. I got a bit confused with p-values, but other than that not too bad :)
Omg dude! Thats so awesome, congrats! ;D
How are you feeling about p-values currently?
Nice!I think ill be okay :)
All good with p values now or do you want any clarification?