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VCE Stuff => Victorian Education Discussion => Topic started by: deledio on October 30, 2008, 07:10:14 pm

Title: TSFX Exams
Post by: deledio on October 30, 2008, 07:10:14 pm
what is the quality like for the TSFX exams? do they stack up against the neaps, insights, etc of the world?
Title: Re: TSFX Exams
Post by: kurrymuncher on October 30, 2008, 07:11:42 pm
Their exams are ridiculous. Most of the time, they dont stick to the course and they add insanely hard questions. The tsfx exams are normally way harder than neap, insight etc
Title: Re: TSFX Exams
Post by: methodsboy on May 30, 2009, 11:19:10 pm
Their exams are ridiculous. Most of the time, they dont stick to the course and they add insanely hard questions. The tsfx exams are normally way harder than neap, insight etc
+ (6.02 x 10^23)
but they aren't as bad as Itute -->they are the bitches of subject abuse.
Title: Re: TSFX Exams
Post by: dejan91 on May 31, 2009, 01:44:17 am
Their exams are ridiculous. Most of the time, they dont stick to the course and they add insanely hard questions. The tsfx exams are normally way harder than neap, insight etc
+ (6.02 x 10^23)
but they aren't as bad as Itute -->they are the bitches of subject abuse.


Oh man definately! Some of itute's exams just make you question your education.
Title: Re: TSFX Exams
Post by: methodsboy on May 31, 2009, 01:59:55 pm
Their exams are ridiculous. Most of the time, they dont stick to the course and they add insanely hard questions. The tsfx exams are normally way harder than neap, insight etc
+ (6.02 x 10^23)
but they aren't as bad as Itute -->they are the bitches of subject abuse.


Oh man definately! Some of itute's exams just make you question your education.
epic lulz
Title: Re: TSFX Exams
Post by: NE2000 on May 31, 2009, 03:09:26 pm
Generally they add a few trick questions or questions that you are not likely to ever get in the exams. I like NEAP exams, they can be hard and relavent at the same time. I also don't mind Insight.
Title: Re: TSFX Exams
Post by: dejan91 on May 31, 2009, 03:48:04 pm
Hmmm...last insight exam I did was ridiculously easy so I'm a bit put off them. They have to prove they're better than that :P
Title: Re: TSFX Exams
Post by: shinny on May 31, 2009, 06:15:43 pm
What subject was that exam for? I tended to quite like Insight exams. They've definitely got the best solutions packs out of any company. Pretty sure they had the best bio exams, and their chem ones weren't too bad either.
Title: Re: TSFX Exams
Post by: TonyHem on May 31, 2009, 06:17:50 pm
What subject was that exam for? I tended to quite like Insight exams. They've definitely got the best solutions packs out of any company. Pretty sure they had the best bio exams, and their chem ones weren't too bad either.

My guess is Physics since that's his own mid-year
Title: Re: TSFX Exams
Post by: NE2000 on June 02, 2009, 09:48:58 am
What subject was that exam for? I tended to quite like Insight exams. They've definitely got the best solutions packs out of any company. Pretty sure they had the best bio exams, and their chem ones weren't too bad either.

Yep Insight solutions are very thorough (every multiple choice is explained including why each choice is wrong, which helps you get start identifying distractors).
Title: Re: TSFX Exams
Post by: GoodGuys on June 02, 2009, 01:56:32 pm
How about TSSM EXAMS???

Title: Re: TSFX Exams
Post by: dejan91 on June 04, 2009, 08:15:49 pm
Yeah Shinny, that insight one was for physics (last years).
Title: Re: TSFX Exams
Post by: kazzacae on August 25, 2010, 06:15:53 pm
TSFX make exams very very difficult so that you feel panicked about the exams and therefore enter their vce "programs" to "improve your enter"......
Title: Re: TSFX Exams
Post by: m@tty on August 25, 2010, 06:51:22 pm
Also sometimes their solutions are just wrong. Much more frequently than other companies...
Title: Re: TSFX Exams
Post by: slothpomba on August 25, 2010, 10:12:21 pm
They put stuff in there that you really don't need to know, to make it seem hard. Then (apparently) they also teach you this stuff outside the scope of the course so you can do the questions, so you feel like you're learning heaps. (Or so i've heard)
Title: Re: TSFX Exams
Post by: Xavier1234 on September 13, 2010, 09:21:06 pm
They put stuff in there that you really don't need to know, to make it seem hard. Then (apparently) they also teach you this stuff outside the scope of the course so you can do the questions, so you feel like you're learning heaps. (Or so i've heard)

ive got contacts with tsfx, and they do NOT teach this 'stuff' that are not in the study design. The company is loaded with chief assessors, hence rules out that possibility. one might argue though, that that individual might have thought that the 'stuff' is outside the study design because he MAY not be aware  that the stuff is actually included in the course.
Title: Re: TSFX Exams
Post by: vea on September 13, 2010, 09:23:43 pm
TSFX 2006 Methods Exam 1 was the first trial exam that I had done and all I can say is that I got thrashed by it.

After reading some of the posts here from others saying that it was difficult, more self-esteem has gone up again. :)
Title: Re: TSFX Exams
Post by: roberto on September 13, 2010, 11:06:26 pm
They put stuff in there that you really don't need to know, to make it seem hard. Then (apparently) they also teach you this stuff outside the scope of the course so you can do the questions, so you feel like you're learning heaps. (Or so i've heard)

ive got contacts with tsfx, and they do NOT teach this 'stuff' that are not in the study design. The company is loaded with chief assessors, hence rules out that possibility. one might argue though, that that individual might have thought that the 'stuff' is outside the study design because he MAY not be aware  that the stuff is actually included in the course.


hmmm....1 post from a new person defending tsfx n with a suspicious name. i think xavier1234 works for tsfx. good job mate - but i think ur caught out. even my teacher who is a spec maths assessor says ur tsfx maths exams are outside the syllabus.
Title: Re: TSFX Exams
Post by: wildareal on September 13, 2010, 11:09:36 pm
TSFX 2006 Methods Exam 1 was the first trial exam that I had done and all I can say is that I got thrashed by it.

After reading some of the posts here from others saying that it was difficult, more self-esteem has gone up again. :)

Haha, I felt the same too. My teacher wrote it. He's a very funny guy. His theory was that if you know Methods 3/4 you can do everything on that paper. He was right. I mean except for the Lambert W function!
Title: Re: TSFX Exams
Post by: letsride on September 13, 2010, 11:10:29 pm
I don't see the problem though..you do tsfx exams, feel bad if you get a low score and study more. Loearning more outside the scope never hurt anyone :)
Title: Re: TSFX Exams
Post by: wildareal on September 13, 2010, 11:20:04 pm
I don't see the problem though..you do tsfx exams, feel bad if you get a low score and study more. Loearning more outside the scope never hurt anyone :)

Exactly; it enriches the learning experience and improves your maths a lot.
Title: Re: TSFX Exams
Post by: LachieEvans on September 14, 2010, 05:21:08 pm
TSFX exams are made specifically to catch you out.. They test knowledge, but mainly they teach exam technique :) but i agree, the questions on the biol Unit 3 ones are i am sure, straight from the Unit 4 genetics course..
Title: Re: TSFX Exams
Post by: TyErd on September 15, 2010, 06:25:34 pm
I don't see the problem though..you do tsfx exams, feel bad if you get a low score and study more. Loearning more outside the scope never hurt anyone :)

Exactly; it enriches the learning experience and improves your maths a lot.

+1

you shit yourself therefore you study more.
Title: Re: TSFX Exams
Post by: Jdog on September 16, 2010, 02:51:27 pm
i don't know why people cliam that exponential question used the lambert w function, it could have beeen any letter , just they chosen to substitute w, It was a simple bit of factorising and wouldn't be suprised if it cam up on exam 1 or 2,

Im not sure you're aware of what the true lambert w function is. it uses complex numbers of which none are required for that particular question.