Post by: MiCCAS on November 06, 2009, 12:40:07 pm
For the interest of those who did not do the exam today, but wish to see it, I have uploaded it for your viewing.
Exam 1: http://www.michaelcasha.com/files/exams/Methods2009_Exam1_compressed.pdf
Exam 2: http://www.michaelcasha.com/files/exams/Methods2009_Exam2_compressed.pdf
If there is anything wrong with this scan, if I have missed a page or you cannot read some information, let me know and I will be happy to fix it and reupload.
Post by: matthew_potato on November 06, 2009, 01:18:07 pm
it's not what the answers say, but do you think i'll get the mark? or is what i wrote even true?
Post by: m@tty on November 06, 2009, 03:50:24 pm
Approximation uses these not area at all.
I wrote; Tangent lies above the curve due to diminishing rate of change of
That was accompanied by a diagram as well as another couple of sentences explaining how approximation formula relies on tangents.
Post by: Sylencia on November 09, 2009, 03:40:55 pm
Post by: MiCCAS on November 09, 2009, 03:43:32 pm
Thanks for the upload, I laughed at the Tas Jones question this year, I assume he died but the took the question out because it was too sensitive :x
That'd be about right - lol!
Post by: jimmy999 on November 09, 2009, 10:49:14 pm
Post by: NE2000 on November 10, 2009, 09:30:57 am
The differences between the CAS and non-CAS version are interesting. I see in the non-CAS questions they guide you through some bits. Personally I think the CAS was harder, especially the MC
I think CAS is meant to be harder?
Post by: StringFever on November 10, 2009, 09:36:10 am
The differences between the CAS and non-CAS version are interesting. I see in the non-CAS questions they guide you through some bits. Personally I think the CAS was harder, especially the MC
The differences between the CAS and non-CAS version are interesting. I see in the non-CAS questions they guide you through some bits. Personally I think the CAS was harder, especially the MC
I think CAS is meant to be harder?
As someone who does non-CAS Methods, I personally thought the paper was relatively the same difficulty as the CAS paper (I had a look through TT's solutions).
As for "guiding", we get "guided" because our graphics calculators can't do the same as your CAS - for example, we have to solve equations using algebra, and for probability (esp for binomial we have to do more groundwork before we can use our calculator - hence the "guiding") :)