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VCE Stuff => VCE Mathematics => VCE Mathematics/Science/Technology => VCE Subjects + Help => VCE Mathematical Methods CAS => Topic started by: Gloamglozer on October 04, 2009, 06:50:47 pm
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I know during reading time, we are not allowed to touch our calculators or use a pen/pencil (nah, you sure gloamy?) but are we allowed to open our bound reference?
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Yes
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ask your teacher =.=*
read VCAA rules, they provide an outline =.=**
I wouldn't be 100% at peace with myself just by asking people lol. Always best to check.
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yup
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derrick ha says yes
he looked unsure when he said it but its allowed
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My teacher said were allowed, derrick said aswell...and when we had trials at our school, I asked those guys who walk around aswell.
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just to be 100% safe. ask the b****from vcaa on the day :)
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I know during reading time, we are not allowed to touch our calculators or use a pen/pencil (nah, you sure gloamy?) but are we allowed to open our bound reference?
I think you can!
I didn't because reading time is where you look for the gift marks and where you will gain the most confidence. :D
How I tackled my exam 2 for methods and specialist was to leave the multiple choice to the end (MC accounts for about 20% and some questions can really bog you down)! In section B there may be some easy proof like prove "-" = "---", or given this function graph it over a < x < b, etc. Doing every easy thing first, hence, not doing the exam in the order given will allow you to feel much more confident when you look through and see in half the time you have clearly answered more than half the questions.
The bound book is something that you should refer to. Say you cannot remember for the life of you what cos(30) is, or some probability formula (probability was what annoyed me in methods), if a function is given to you to represent a discrete probability distribution, what do you do?
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just to be 100% safe. ask the b****from vcaa on the day :)
I agree with ngRISING, simple thing to do. It's not like you NEED to know from now in order to devise a plan or anything lol. Just ask on the day, what's the rush.
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just to be 100% safe. ask the b****from vcaa on the day :)
I agree with ngRISING, simple thing to do. It's not like you NEED to know from now in order to devise a plan or anything lol. Just ask on the day, what's the rush.
Yeah you're right, but like the old idiom goes, "Better to be safe than sorry." :)
Thanks everyone.
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just to be 100% safe. ask the b****from vcaa on the day :)
I agree with ngRISING, simple thing to do. It's not like you NEED to know from now in order to devise a plan or anything lol. Just ask on the day, what's the rush.
Yeah you're right, but like the old idiom goes, "Better to be safe than sorry." :)
Thanks everyone.
[pedantic]That's a proverb not an idiom.[/pedantic]
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I've stuck sheets of A4 paper into my notebook as dividers so the paper sticks out of the book by ~5mm. The paper is stuck down securely and it isn't a tab or anything but I wasn't sure whether that would be considered a breach of the VCAA rules. I think my teacher is just overly anal but that 5mm is negligible, right?
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lol. is your bound reference as thick as the text book. mines like 1cm thick. derrick ha's bound reference.
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lol. is your bound reference as thick as the text book. mines like 1cm thick. derrick ha's bound reference.
Nope. It's the thickness of a standard 128 page exercise book plus some added sheets.
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lol. is your bound reference as thick as the text book. mines like 1cm thick. derrick ha's bound reference.
10, give or take a few, a4 sheets.
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My bound reference book was a 192 page excercise book.
Remember if you guys have any room put in any past exam answers that you see as useful as if you hit a mental blank during the exam with either a multiple choice question or a section b question (very rare though that any of these will have any relation to previous exams).
The funniest part of the exam day is when you see people rock up with itute notes as their reference!
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The funniest part of the exam day is when you see people rock up with itute notes as their reference!
I was one of them.
...well more accurately, Derrick Ha's book with all the iTute notes stapled in for both Methods and Spesh.
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The funniest part of the exam day is when you see people rock up with itute notes as their reference!
I was one of them.
...well more accurately, Derrick Ha's book with all the iTute notes stapled in for both Methods and Spesh.
I have a feeling I'm gonna be just like that...
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do people usually combine their spesh/methods notes together??
and.. do many people actually laugh at u for bringing in commercial notes (e.g derrik ha or whatever hes called)??
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and.. do many people actually laugh at u for bringing in commercial notes (e.g derrik ha or whatever hes called)??
'Many'? I honestly don't think anyone cares or will even see it. Besides, in the time that they spent hand writing a personalised book, I could've done like 10 trial exam sets; jokes on them really. It really depends what level you're at but most people tend not to use it from what I've heard...I personally didn't.
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and.. do many people actually laugh at u for bringing in commercial notes (e.g derrik ha or whatever hes called)??
'Many'? I honestly don't think anyone cares or will even see it. Besides, in the time that they spent hand writing a personalised book, I could've done like 10 trial exam sets; jokes on them really. It really depends what level you're at but most people tend not to use it from what I've heard...I personally didn't.
I agree, although some people may find it helpful to write revision notes, but I personally never do (for maths).
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let me rephrase:
There were several students at my school who came in to the exam with about 4 pages of itutes notes stapled together (i.e. a last minute thing).
I started my bound reference book from day dot thankyou very much!
If you guys came in with say a already made reference 'book' that was highlighted, annotated, etc. Then really that is not the same as coming in with four sheets of itutes notes.
With uni the fact that lecturers will either sell or put skeletons of the lecture notes on the net will imply that you can annotate, highlight important parts in as little time and have it as a great reference. I wish that I went to a commercialised lecture for all my VCE subjects last year but they were too expensive! :(