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Title: What people are getting on exam 1 so far?
Post by: LFTM on October 17, 2010, 02:52:52 pm
So what are you guys getting on exam 1?
So far i've done the 2008 vcaa and the 07 vcaa, 36 and 37 respectively. This would be a very low A+ im guessing?
Title: Re: What people are getting on exam 1 so far?
Post by: onerealsmartass on October 17, 2010, 04:49:14 pm
Im leaving vcaa 07 and 08 to the days before exams, but for with the other company ones ive done i started off by getting mid 30's mainly stupid mistakes... after doing around 5 started getting like 38's yet to achieve a 40 :(
Title: Re: What people are getting on exam 1 so far?
Post by: LFTM on October 17, 2010, 04:59:15 pm
Does anyone else think Exam 1 is trickier than exam 2?
Title: Re: What people are getting on exam 1 so far?
Post by: onerealsmartass on October 17, 2010, 05:40:57 pm
yes and no. exam1 s easier to lose marks because its so easy to see an answer that matches yours but you havent completely answered he question.
exam 2 isnt that bad, most questions are pretty clear cut but there are some real dodgy questions at times.
i think its more important to do well in exam 1
Title: Re: What people are getting on exam 1 so far?
Post by: vidang on October 17, 2010, 06:02:26 pm
exam 1 is easier

exam 1 ive only gotten 40/40 once,
i've been ranging around 34-38 mainly

and exam 2 im doing ok like 47-54/60 terrible
Title: Re: What people are getting on exam 1 so far?
Post by: ghadz7 on October 17, 2010, 06:10:37 pm
exam 1 is easier

exam 1 ive only gotten 40/40 once,
i've been ranging around 34-38 mainly

and exam 2 im doing ok like 47-54/60 terrible


And what are you aiming for?
Title: Re: What people are getting on exam 1 so far?
Post by: vidang on October 17, 2010, 09:58:03 pm
exam 1 is easier

exam 1 ive only gotten 40/40 once,
i've been ranging around 34-38 mainly

and exam 2 im doing ok like 47-54/60 terrible


And what are you aiming for?

40+
Title: Re: What people are getting on exam 1 so far?
Post by: Blakhitman on October 17, 2010, 10:26:58 pm
Man I need to do a further exam soon.
Title: Re: What people are getting on exam 1 so far?
Post by: vexx on October 17, 2010, 10:28:09 pm
for exam one usually 39/40 - got this for both vcaa 2006 and 2007.
Title: Re: What people are getting on exam 1 so far?
Post by: Blakhitman on October 19, 2010, 03:33:06 pm
for exam one usually 39/40 - got this for both vcaa 2006 and 2007.


I just did 2006, picked out the wrong sequence for the first number patterns question >.<
Title: Re: What people are getting on exam 1 so far?
Post by: menashiiii on October 19, 2010, 05:36:30 pm
been getting 36+ for exam 1 and 56+ for exam 2
leaving vcaa till last
Title: Re: What people are getting on exam 1 so far?
Post by: vexx on October 19, 2010, 08:14:11 pm
for exam one usually 39/40 - got this for both vcaa 2006 and 2007.


I just did 2006, picked out the wrong sequence for the first number patterns question >.<

haha, i dont even know what number patterns is, but sounds annoying
o_o
Title: Re: What people are getting on exam 1 so far?
Post by: Blakhitman on October 19, 2010, 08:44:23 pm
for exam one usually 39/40 - got this for both vcaa 2006 and 2007.


I just did 2006, picked out the wrong sequence for the first number patterns question >.<

haha, i dont even know what number patterns is, but sounds annoying
o_o

Really easy. What modules are you doing?
Title: Re: What people are getting on exam 1 so far?
Post by: vexx on October 19, 2010, 09:44:44 pm
for exam one usually 39/40 - got this for both vcaa 2006 and 2007.


I just did 2006, picked out the wrong sequence for the first number patterns question >.<

haha, i dont even know what number patterns is, but sounds annoying
o_o

Really easy. What modules are you doing?

trig, matrices and business maths.

trig can be tricky though its pretty basic stuff haha, and business maths is far too boring><
what about you?
Title: Re: What people are getting on exam 1 so far?
Post by: mojomojo on October 19, 2010, 09:53:46 pm
btw, how are you guys foing your practice exams? Do you guys do exam 1 consecutively? or do you guys do exam 1 and then 2 in order?
Title: Re: What people are getting on exam 1 so far?
Post by: LFTM on October 19, 2010, 09:57:21 pm
btw, how are you guys going your practice exams? Do you guys do exam 1 consecutively? or do you guys exam 1 and then 2?

I do them consecutively, i did a whole heap of exam 2s, i only touched an exam one a couple of days ago, tbh i thought exam 1 wasn't really necessary, i though if i could do exam 2, then i could do exam 1. I told my teacher this and she was outraged and told me to do them so i did. 
Title: Re: What people are getting on exam 1 so far?
Post by: mojomojo on October 19, 2010, 10:05:17 pm
btw, how are you guys going your practice exams? Do you guys do exam 1 consecutively? or do you guys exam 1 and then 2?

I do them consecutively, i did a whole heap of exam 2s, i only touched an exam one a couple of days ago, tbh i thought exam 1 wasn't really necessary, i though if i could do exam 2, then i could do exam 1. I told my teacher this and she was outraged and told me to do them so i did. 

But does exam 2 relate to exam 1? Don't they normally put areas that have been omitted in exam 1 in exam 2?
Title: Re: What people are getting on exam 1 so far?
Post by: Blakhitman on October 19, 2010, 11:15:45 pm
for exam one usually 39/40 - got this for both vcaa 2006 and 2007.


I just did 2006, picked out the wrong sequence for the first number patterns question >.<

haha, i dont even know what number patterns is, but sounds annoying
o_o

Really easy. What modules are you doing?

trig, matrices and business maths.

trig can be tricky though its pretty basic stuff haha, and business maths is far too boring><
what about you?

Well our school's doing patterns, trig and business but I'm doing matrices instead of business because I hate it >.<

haha yea trig can be a pain sometimes, but very fun to work on because it's trig! and not business maths :p
Title: Re: What people are getting on exam 1 so far?
Post by: LFTM on October 19, 2010, 11:25:23 pm
btw, how are you guys going your practice exams? Do you guys do exam 1 consecutively? or do you guys exam 1 and then 2?

I do them consecutively, i did a whole heap of exam 2s, i only touched an exam one a couple of days ago, tbh i thought exam 1 wasn't really necessary, i though if i could do exam 2, then i could do exam 1. I told my teacher this and she was outraged and told me to do them so i did. 

But does exam 2 relate to exam 1? Don't they normally put areas that have been omitted in exam 1 in exam 2?

lol yeah, i realized that after doing exam 1s.
Title: Re: What people are getting on exam 1 so far?
Post by: menashiiii on October 20, 2010, 07:25:59 am
btw, how are you guys going your practice exams? Do you guys do exam 1 consecutively? or do you guys exam 1 and then 2?

I do them consecutively, i did a whole heap of exam 2s, i only touched an exam one a couple of days ago, tbh i thought exam 1 wasn't really necessary, i though if i could do exam 2, then i could do exam 1. I told my teacher this and she was outraged and told me to do them so i did. 

hahhaaha LOLLLL
niceee
Title: Re: What people are getting on exam 1 so far?
Post by: Blakhitman on October 20, 2010, 04:19:39 pm
What would a 39/40 and 59/60 equate to in SS (06)?
Title: Re: What people are getting on exam 1 so far?
Post by: stonecold on October 20, 2010, 04:28:21 pm
What would a 39/40 and 59/60 equate to in SS (06)?

be at least 48. :)
Title: Re: What people are getting on exam 1 so far?
Post by: jamesss on October 20, 2010, 10:55:56 pm
Hahaha Blakhitman, that makes the two of us (Y)
Title: Re: What people are getting on exam 1 so far?
Post by: Blakhitman on October 20, 2010, 11:27:27 pm
What would a 39/40 and 59/60 equate to in SS (06)?

be at least 48. :)

O.k...back to methods for me :p know what I got wrong on exam 1? picked the wrong sequence for arithmetic >.< so stupid lol

Hahaha Blakhitman, that makes the two of us (Y)

Good luck mate! I hope we do well on the exams :)
Title: Re: What people are getting on exam 1 so far?
Post by: kenhung123 on October 21, 2010, 01:47:08 pm
Generally it is 1 mark per SS at the high 40's yea?
Title: Re: What people are getting on exam 1 so far?
Post by: kazzacae on October 22, 2010, 11:45:23 pm
what about sac ranking? how important is it. I reckon i can drop 2 mark on exam 1 and 2 on exam 2. but my sacs are shit

Title: Re: What people are getting on exam 1 so far?
Post by: kenhung123 on October 23, 2010, 12:13:55 am
Hmm I think you must be rank 1 to do well
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Post by: kazzacae on October 23, 2010, 12:17:14 am
stonecold's mate got 50 with rank 6...i suppose it takes perfection in the exam.thats it
Title: Re: What people are getting on exam 1 so far?
Post by: milkcarton on October 23, 2010, 05:50:35 pm
Nooooooo! Just did an insight one. Got 31/40. -sigh- I suck at the Core component. How do you guys do exams? Do you guys do one after the other?
Title: Re: What people are getting on exam 1 so far?
Post by: LFTM on October 23, 2010, 06:04:47 pm
Nooooooo! Just did an insight one. Got 31/40. -sigh- I suck at the Core component. How do you guys do exams? Do you guys do one after the other?

I usually do pretty well on the core, i usually lose marks on the linear and networks modules. I do whatever exam i feel like.
Title: Re: What people are getting on exam 1 so far?
Post by: milkcarton on October 23, 2010, 06:27:38 pm
I lost 7 marks in the Core component. LOL
Title: Re: What people are getting on exam 1 so far?
Post by: Albeno69 on October 23, 2010, 07:00:00 pm
exam 1 is great losing like 7 marks over all most on stupid mistakes such as rounding and i still ham yet to get a hold of the three median line technique so if that come up witch i am 90% sure it will i am screwed
lol
Title: Re: What people are getting on exam 1 so far?
Post by: menashiiii on October 24, 2010, 01:29:17 pm
got 39/40 for tssm 2010
and did it at 2 this morning xD
q11 on core i screwed..
dont know how but..
explanation to it would be nice?
Title: Re: What people are getting on exam 1 so far?
Post by: vexx on October 24, 2010, 01:47:14 pm
got 39/40 for tssm 2010
and did it at 2 this morning xD
q11 on core i screwed..
dont know how but..
explanation to it would be nice?

perhaps post the question here and that's how ;)
Title: Re: What people are getting on exam 1 so far?
Post by: menashiiii on October 24, 2010, 09:22:57 pm
got 39/40 for tssm 2010
and did it at 2 this morning xD
q11 on core i screwed..
dont know how but..
explanation to it would be nice?

perhaps post the question here and that's how ;)

there :)
Title: Re: What people are getting on exam 1 so far?
Post by: stonecold on October 24, 2010, 09:27:15 pm
got 39/40 for tssm 2010
and did it at 2 this morning xD
q11 on core i screwed..
dont know how but..
explanation to it would be nice?

perhaps post the question here and that's how ;)

there :)

B yeah?

You just find the median of the last 5 values.
Title: Re: What people are getting on exam 1 so far?
Post by: masonnnn on October 24, 2010, 09:37:05 pm
i'd say B as well,
i'm guessing you found the mean instead of median causing the confusion or something?
easy mistake to make.

speaking of easy mistakes in reference to exam 1, i keep dropping MULTIPLE marks from silly mistakes. and the silly mistake always results in one of the answers they have there to throw you off. resulting in major fail.
just can't win.
Title: Re: What people are getting on exam 1 so far?
Post by: Blakhitman on October 24, 2010, 09:48:02 pm
Further is the only subject in which i didn't make silly mistakes on my first practice exams...which is weird ><
Title: Re: What people are getting on exam 1 so far?
Post by: menashiiii on October 24, 2010, 10:20:53 pm
howd you get it?
i dont think im working it out right..
arggghhh
Title: Re: What people are getting on exam 1 so far?
Post by: vexx on October 24, 2010, 10:31:03 pm
The final value of the smoothed data is the looking at the last 5 numbers on that table, and finding the median of those 5.
So the smallest number of those is december, and then november and then september, whereby the value is 155, therefore answer is B... make sense?
Title: Re: What people are getting on exam 1 so far?
Post by: menashiiii on October 24, 2010, 10:43:17 pm
OHHHHH
i get it..
i wasnt reading the FINAL smoothed data bit correctly..
my bad
i was working it out fine
just didnt understand why it was that one
thanks a bunch! :D
Title: Re: What people are getting on exam 1 so far?
Post by: KenworthTrucks on October 24, 2010, 11:04:58 pm
Aiming for 40+ but I'm scared about exam 1. I make sooo many silly mistakes and to get an A+ in exam one you need pretty much 36/40. Obviously its different every year but that seems around the mark.

Oh and last year a student in our school was ranked 13th in SACS and got 50 in further... so anything is possible, its all about the exams as if you do well, your SAC marks will get pushed up anyway.
Title: Re: What people are getting on exam 1 so far?
Post by: LFTM on October 24, 2010, 11:50:25 pm
Aiming for 40+ but I'm scared about exam 1. I make sooo many silly mistakes and to get an A+ in exam one you need pretty much 36/40. Obviously its different every year but that seems around the mark.

Oh and last year a student in our school was ranked 13th in SACS and got 50 in further... so anything is possible, its all about the exams as if you do well, your SAC marks will get pushed up anyway.

Last year i think you needed 37/40 to get A+.
Title: Re: What people are getting on exam 1 so far?
Post by: Martoman on October 25, 2010, 12:11:02 am
I can never crack 40/40.

Maybe thats because i haven't factored in checking time. but meh, ill do it on the day.
Title: Re: What people are getting on exam 1 so far?
Post by: Blakhitman on October 25, 2010, 12:16:06 am
I can never crack 40/40.

Maybe thats because i haven't factored in checking time. but meh, ill do it on the day.

I was so close on the 07 one lol, I got robbed because I didn't understand wth the question was saying.

Don't worry, I'm sure you'll be fine, we'll all be expecting your solutions after the exam btw :D

Title: Re: What people are getting on exam 1 so far?
Post by: Martoman on October 25, 2010, 12:21:45 am
.... yeah.... i really don't want to do that for any of my subjects, ill get depressed for a whole month thinking that I got a question wrong
Title: Re: What people are getting on exam 1 so far?
Post by: Blakhitman on October 25, 2010, 12:26:23 am
.... yeah.... i really don't want to do that for any of my subjects, ill get depressed for a whole month thinking that I got a question wrong

Up to you...but we will always welcome your insightful contribution!

And I know what you mean, but my urge to check out VN always has me reading about the exams ><
Title: Re: What people are getting on exam 1 so far?
Post by: Martoman on October 25, 2010, 12:30:51 am
thanks man  :smitten:

Depends how I feel
Title: Re: What people are getting on exam 1 so far?
Post by: LFTM on October 25, 2010, 12:37:25 am
I've never got 40/40 either.
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Post by: m@tty on October 25, 2010, 12:38:56 am
Either have I.
Title: Re: What people are getting on exam 1 so far?
Post by: Blakhitman on October 25, 2010, 12:40:56 am
Either have I.

Specialist forum other way...geniuses only here

:p