ATAR Notes: Forum
Uni Stuff => Universities - Victoria => University of Melbourne => Topic started by: schmalex on June 10, 2010, 07:39:50 pm
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Please tell me you all screwed the whole thing up :(
Nah jk, but seriously, I sucked. I just blanked at a couple of questions and tried to draw diagrams for some things and failed miserably so just wrote really long explanations. How'd you guys go?
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Didn't finish + So screwed = Fail
That's about all I learnt all semester.
EDIT: Though I did improve my maths as you can see. lol. I'm such an optimist.
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It seems so easy until you actually have to do the exam...
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didnt finish! ah wells fingers cross never have to do that again!
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Oh god. That was an awful exam - made up a whole load of rubbish for the whole of section B and didn't even understand how to answer Part A of C2. Lost heaps of marks on MC already :( Overall, screwed - that was not a nice exam.
But Calculus went OK I think...how'd you find it Gloamglozer?
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Yeah don't worry too much guys, I didn't finish the exam last year and felt a bit iffy on it overall and managed to get 88 in it.
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Part B was the worst! I thought Part B was supposed to be easy
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Yeah don't worry too much guys, I didn't finish the exam last year and felt a bit iffy on it overall and managed to get 88 in it.
WOW! I'd love a 60 in Microeconomics. I spent most of yesterday panicking that I failed :(
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Part B was the worst! I thought Part B was supposed to be easy
I know! I was having problems with MC at first so I decided to do part B first to get some confidence. But WTH, part B was just insane. I couldn't even do like the first 2 questions.
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Yeah don't worry too much guys, I didn't finish the exam last year and felt a bit iffy on it overall and managed to get 88 in it.
WOW! I'd love a 60 in Microeconomics. I spent most of yesterday panicking that I failed :(
lol they don't mark that hard.
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Yeah don't worry too much guys, I didn't finish the exam last year and felt a bit iffy on it overall and managed to get 88 in it.
WOW! I'd love a 60 in Microeconomics. I spent most of yesterday panicking that I failed :(
I got a 60 in Microeconomics in 2008 and I had no clue what was going on.
WORST SUBJECT EVER.
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Hopefully they don't mark too hard this year as well!
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Yeah don't worry too much, I remember getting fairly stressed after last years exam as it was pretty tough, and ended up with like high 70's (i think, can't quite remember).
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Yeah don't worry too much, I remember getting fairly stressed after last years exam as it was pretty tough, and ended up with like high 70's (i think, can't quite remember).
+1
I missed out a 6 mark question too.
Look forward to Intro Macro, its amazingly fun (totally serious there).
But don't look forward for Organisational Behaviour, unless you enjoy your lecturers literally trying to fail you.
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Oh god. That was an awful exam - made up a whole load of rubbish for the whole of section B and didn't even understand how to answer Part A of C2. Lost heaps of marks on MC already :( Overall, screwed - that was not a nice exam.
But Calculus went OK I think...how'd you find it Gloamglozer?
Yes, it was an awful exam on the account that section C was very long. Personally, I found that the questions provided almost the same standard as those questions provided last year (one or two a little easier - like that game theory one in part C) but just the length of the exam was just terrible.
With Calculus 1, I did my best. Integration and vectors (if I got them correct) is where I'll get my marks, but everywhere else, I'll sink and drown
But don't look forward for Organisational Behaviour, unless you enjoy your lecturers literally trying to fail you.
I heard it was exceptionally boring and subjective.
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Yes, it was an awful exam on the account that section C was very long. Personally, I found that the questions provided almost the same standard as those questions provided last year (one or two a little easier - like that game theory one in part C) but just the length of the exam was just terrible.
Game theory lol, on the 2009 exam, we had to draw this MASSIVE game theory tree. Mine was soooooooo messy.
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It was okish.
I didn't realise there was a question at the back of the last paper, so basically spent about 2 mins on it right at the end.
It was a pretty easier question for 6% though.
Calc1 on the other hand... ewww
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Haha I've got the opposite view. Calc 1 = better exam than micro which was plain screwed.
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Yes, it was an awful exam on the account that section C was very long. Personally, I found that the questions provided almost the same standard as those questions provided last year (one or two a little easier - like that game theory one in part C) but just the length of the exam was just terrible.
Game theory lol, on the 2009 exam, we had to draw this MASSIVE game theory tree. Mine was soooooooo messy.
Our tutor taught us shorthand for that, saved a lot of time. For a lot of kids it is their only H1 over their whole course, I didn't think I did that well and got an 89.
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That's absolutely amazing!! I really want a 60 in the subject - no doubt it won't be higher than that.
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That's absolutely amazing!! I really want a 60 in the subject - no doubt it won't be higher than that.
I hear intro micro and inter macro are exemption subjects for actuarial students, meaning you need a 73 average over both...
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That's absolutely amazing!! I really want a 60 in the subject - no doubt it won't be higher than that.
I hear intro micro and inter macro are exemption subjects for actuarial students, meaning you need a 73 average over both...
Yeah, they are, gladly :) So do you basically need to get 73+ in every subject if you're majoring in Actuarial Studies including your breadth subjects to gain IAA exemption? What an odd number.
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Where'd you hear this? Because when I e-mailed the head of Actuarial Studies, he told me that this was just a rumour and that there are no other requirements for macro/micro except for pass.
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I'm pretty sure you only need a total of 150 in both Calculus 2 and Linear Algebra (ie. 75 average in both) to progress to second year actuarial studies. That is a total of 150 in both subjects in order to do the second year maths subjects required for your major.
You only need to pass Intro Micro, Intro Macro and Inter Macro, I heard.
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I've heard the same, except that the 75 average was for Calc 1 and Calc 2. I'm not sure if there's a prerequisite for linear algebra though.
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Lol this thread basically illustrates how I felt after Introductory Personal Finance.
Also: ILMM calculus 2 is a really fun subject, but Linear Algebra is really difficult (lol I'm doing it again this year - only at a much more difficult level), just do everything in the question booklet (especially the proofs - This is the first maths subject where proofs aren't like those you did in high school).
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OMG that sounds scary - what kind of proofs are you required to know? :S
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OMG that sounds scary - what kind of proofs are you required to know? :S
This was probably the most difficult question I saw in my Linear Algebra exam.
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I didn't understand that at all :P
Though I recognise the term 'linearly independent' from the Essential Specialist Maths book :)
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In calculus 1 you would have looked at vectors and a linearly dependent vector is a vector that can be written in terms of other vectors.
So if a vector space S is linearly independent it means that it's bases (think of them as vectors that you can use to construct another vector) are linearly independent of eachother.
I didn't know how to prove b.
The span of a vector space is all the vectors that can be created by adding the bases together.
I didn't know how to prove d.
Well I have a lot to revise with Group Theory and Linear Algebra.
The thing with Linear algebra is a lot of the content is NOT covered in VCE so there is stuff that is downright confusing.
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Ahh thta sounds confusing!! Do you know what the best approach would be in studying for this subject - you mentioned doing all the handbook problems, what about the text book? Are you selling the text book?