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Order of Difficulty for Commercial Trial Papers?
« on: September 26, 2013, 02:54:20 pm »
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From your own experiences, what do you find the order of difficulty of commercial papers to be?

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Re: Order of Difficulty for Commercial Trial Papers?
« Reply #1 on: September 27, 2013, 05:36:18 pm »
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I find it harder to rank the Physics commercial papers by difficulty than Methods or Spesh, because nearly all of the questions you find are just past exam questions re-worded. The most obvious difference I've found is the reliability of the solutions. Neap are pretty solid, so is VCAA (thankfully), but TSFX and TSSM are pretty dodgy from memory...

On that note, does anyone else think that the trial exam companies put less effort into Physics? It might be the sciences in general, I don't do Chem or Bio anymore... but I've found in comparison to the Maths papers, the Physics are not only far less inventive (same question over and over again), but the worked solutions (or questions themselves) are so often flawed. Unless I'm just bad at Physics.
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