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Title: Exam Pre and Post Discussion
Post by: aeroplane on November 10, 2010, 02:23:28 pm
You guys ready? Just going through the book and reading over my notes/practice exams again one last time.  :coolsmiley:
Title: Re: Exam Pre and Post Discussion
Post by: chopz on November 10, 2010, 02:58:50 pm
i hope the SD exam tomorrow is straight forward, because after the APPs exam yesterday,
im not too confident :(
Title: Re: Exam Pre and Post Discussion
Post by: huss48 on November 10, 2010, 04:26:57 pm
GOOD LUCK FOR TMR GUYS!  :)
Title: Re: Exam Pre and Post Discussion
Post by: zan on November 10, 2010, 06:55:15 pm
Goodluck guys :D
Title: Re: Exam Pre and Post Discussion
Post by: dannayeee on November 10, 2010, 08:42:12 pm
GOOD LUCK GUYS! :D
Title: Re: Exam Pre and Post Discussion
Post by: huss48 on November 11, 2010, 02:42:29 pm
how did everyone go???

i thought the algorithm part was tricky and the test data part of 12a etc

hope everyone did good
Title: Re: Exam Pre and Post Discussion
Post by: ilovecake on November 11, 2010, 02:53:37 pm
I found the exam ridiculously easy, I was really hoping they were going to make it a little harder this year.
Title: Re: Exam Pre and Post Discussion
Post by: aeroplane on November 11, 2010, 04:34:10 pm
Pretty straight forward I'm thinking 85%+ easily for the exam  :D
Title: Re: Exam Pre and Post Discussion
Post by: zan on November 11, 2010, 05:03:21 pm
Yep found it pretty easy like most guys. They even dumbed down the case study this year, it was pretty easy to understand and comprehend.

Probably dropped a few marks here and there, but expecting 80+/90.
Title: Re: Exam Pre and Post Discussion
Post by: ilovecake on November 11, 2010, 05:30:18 pm
Did anyone happen to get a copy of the exam they could post up?
Title: Re: Exam Pre and Post Discussion
Post by: chopz on November 11, 2010, 05:44:35 pm
exam was alright :), wat did u get for the FACTOR question for case study,

Social, Technical or Operational.
Title: Re: Exam Pre and Post Discussion
Post by: ilovecake on November 11, 2010, 05:53:34 pm
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exam was alright :) , wat did u get for the FACTOR question for case study,

Social, Technical or Operational

I chose Social, said stuff about the need of better care for patients etc. I think this was one of the ones where you would get marks for any of them depending on how you provided evidence for what you chose.

Title: Re: Exam Pre and Post Discussion
Post by: tero on November 11, 2010, 06:06:37 pm
Was really easy. Finished with 40 mins left? Also I said economic because it'd cost way too much to employ specialists in like, every rural hospital..
Title: Re: Exam Pre and Post Discussion
Post by: ilovecake on November 11, 2010, 06:11:53 pm
Was really easy. Finished with 40 mins left?

Yeah, I finished with an hour to spare. Our entire class ended up leaving with still ~35mins left.
Title: Re: Exam Pre and Post Discussion
Post by: tero on November 11, 2010, 06:16:49 pm
Hopefully i did well on my first 3/4 exam :D
Did anyone notice that people supervising (because that's all they do lawl) all seem to walk like they have something rather uncomfortable in their butts..? Maybe it's just my school :/
Title: Re: Exam Pre and Post Discussion
Post by: chopz on November 11, 2010, 06:17:31 pm
i think the question could be interpreted many ways, i personally chose technical.

but im pretty sure it was social, same situation as VCAA 08 or 09 paper, they had exact same question.

and it was social, oh well it was like 1 mark...

Title: Re: Exam Pre and Post Discussion
Post by: ilovecake on November 11, 2010, 06:21:11 pm
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i personally chose technical

I'm fairly sure you'll still get the mark for it if you explained the reasoning behind your choice well.
Title: Re: Exam Pre and Post Discussion
Post by: chopz on November 11, 2010, 06:23:35 pm
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i personally chose technical

I'm fairly sure you'll still get the mark for it if you explained the reasoning behind your choice well.


was there an explanation though....im pretty sure they sed just choose one, and no explanation :'(
Title: Re: Exam Pre and Post Discussion
Post by: ilovecake on November 11, 2010, 06:29:27 pm
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was there an explanation though....im pretty sure they sed just choose one, and no explanation  :'(

Oh. I can't really remember to be honest, I do remember giving a reason for why I chose mine, but I may have just added that in to try and be smart :P


Title: Re: Exam Pre and Post Discussion
Post by: chopz on November 11, 2010, 06:33:45 pm
lol anyways time to PARTYYY!! :) might check back later, if someone would
kindly upload the paper, doubt it since it's such a small SD community on here.
Title: Re: Exam Pre and Post Discussion
Post by: tero on November 11, 2010, 06:34:39 pm
@ chops
http://vceit.com/
Should probably be up there soonish
Title: Re: Exam Pre and Post Discussion
Post by: ilovecake on November 11, 2010, 06:39:27 pm
lol anyways time to PARTYYY!! :) might check back later, if someone would
kindly upload the paper, doubt it since it's such a small SD community on here.

Have fun!
Title: Re: Exam Pre and Post Discussion
Post by: aeroplane on November 11, 2010, 10:17:46 pm
I'm kinda concerned about the algorithm question for the letter/number shit as to why it didn't work what did everybody write for that?
Title: Re: Exam Pre and Post Discussion
Post by: tero on November 11, 2010, 10:31:59 pm
Well, in the 'if' statement it was like 'if character is numeric or a letter, password is invalid'
So hence all passwords are invalid.
Also it started at the second character..
At least this is what i THINK was wrong with it lol
Title: Re: Exam Pre and Post Discussion
Post by: ilovecake on November 11, 2010, 11:31:09 pm
I believe the IF statement (in short) was:
"IF character NotNumeric OR NotLetter THEN = Rejected"

Basically saying if the character isn't a number or letter then it is invalid.

Title: Re: Exam Pre and Post Discussion
Post by: zzap on November 12, 2010, 01:53:19 pm
Did all you guys have to make a correction in a question on page 16 too? Cannot believe we're still fixing poorly written questions in a VCAA exam.
Title: Re: Exam Pre and Post Discussion
Post by: chopz on November 12, 2010, 04:58:09 pm
Did all you guys have to make a correction in a question on page 16 too? Cannot believe we're still fixing poorly written questions in a VCAA exam.

yeah, spent like 5-10 mins trying to find the page and the third sentence.........wata waste.