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VCE Stuff => VCE Mathematics => VCE Mathematics/Science/Technology => VCE Subjects + Help => VCE Specialist Mathematics => Topic started by: hyperblade01 on October 25, 2009, 01:03:16 am
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For those that have done it, were they easy, average or hard papers?
To be honest, I found them straightforward which is good i suppose. The only reason I'm asking is because it's my first set of official current study design exams :P
Thanks in advance
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I think 2006 was the easiest VCAA paper. Pretty straightforward as you said :)
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Awwww so it was 'easy' .... let's just hope 2009 mimics 2006 ;D
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It was the first year of the new system (it used to be both exams were 1 1/2 hours and you were allowed 1 page of notes in both), so they made the non-calculator section in particular extremely easy. My friends and I all finished that exam in half an hour.
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Yeah pretty straightforward. I just needed to check the validity of one of my solutions. For 2c where it asks to show that angle ADC and angle ABC are supplementary. I found cos(ADC) = 0.8 and cos(ABC) = -0.8 and then stated that ADC was 1st quadrant and ABC was second quadrant and said:
 = \frac {-4}{5} )
so  = \frac {4}{5} = cos( \angle ADC))
and hence 
and worked out the rest. Is that allowed?
Their solution in the assessment report is obviously good and everything, I was wondering whether this is acceptable or whether my solution makes a leap of mathematical logic somewhere.
Rest of the paper was good :)