ATAR Notes: Forum
Archived Discussion => 2008 => Mid-year exams => Exam Discussion => Victoria => Physics => Topic started by: iamdan08 on June 11, 2008, 05:38:07 pm
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So what do you think the A+ range will be this year? Last year it was 76.5/90 (i'm pretty sure)! How much do you think it will go up?
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This year's paper wasn't that hard. I would expect it to be in the proximity of 80, although not above 80.
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I reckon 78.5/90.
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I reckon 85%+
So round 76~77 /90
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How do they determine the A+ range anyway?
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They figure out the median score and the variance of the scores then set the A+ range for the top 10% (i think it may be?) of the student population, whatever that is.
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Oh nvm what i said. gained 2 points, lost another 2 elsewhere though. Must make magic 80 mak.
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They figure out the median score and the variance of the scores then set the A+ range for the top 10% (i think it may be?) of the student population, whatever that is.
Yeah i'm pretty sure it's 10%!
I think it will probable be around 78-79. There were a few tricky questions!
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I was talking to one of our physics teachers, who said that the range will be about 76+. He isn't my teacher so I'm not sure how he is involved, but I'm pretty sure he has a lot to do with the marking scheme etc.
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do they give half marks?, teh maxmium marks i lsoted is 13 if i get zero for eachq uestion i got wrong that is, so 77/90
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do they give half marks?, teh maxmium marks i lsoted is 13 if i get zero for eachq uestion i got wrong that is, so 77/90
No to half marks (unless the question was worth more than 1 mark to start with)
Thats still a good score :D
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i used the mass of the tugboat not the ship for the 1st question
i used the length of the spring not the displacement, somehow thats how i got 1 joule it looked liek a good number so i didnt question it -__-"
the advertising board one, calculated the vertical height from the top of the parabola to where it hit, >_>
and got both of the ke gpe graphs wrong, =/. shoudlve gunned this one. i found last years easier for some reasn as i tested my self on it like a prac exam.
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I felt this exam was harder than last yrs. Purely on the fact last yrs was easy. Did people see that to?
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I felt this exam was harder than last yrs. Purely on the fact last yrs was easy. Did people see that to?
In some ways i felt it was. There were some tricky questions this year so we might not so the A+ range move up to much!. However i think the electronics section was easier this year!
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This years exam was much easier than previous nears but it was still tricky so the A+ range might only go up by a bit.
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Yeah, it was definitely easier but I think scope for careless mistakes was higher.
Parts of it were definitely tricky.
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I am new to this forum. I was looking at the solutions they published in the itute and found I lost 10 marks. I really love to get an A+ (like everybody else) But I always think the range for A+ will change this year as everybody did the paper very well.
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I am new to this forum. I was looking at the solutions they published in the itute and found I lost 10 marks. I really love to get an A+ (like everybody else) But I always think the range for A+ will change this year as everybody did the paper very well.
10 marks should still be A+ :)
it wasnt much different from last year's [the difficulty was similar], the A+ cutoff will be in the mid-high 70s or something :P