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Is there anything to avoid from previous study design for VCAA exams?
« on: September 29, 2012, 04:22:25 pm »
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I was planning to do the the VCAA exams from the previous study design and was just wondering if there are any major changes? Anything that i should be looking out for/ avoid?

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Re: Is there anything to avoid from previous study design for VCAA exams?
« Reply #1 on: September 29, 2012, 04:25:36 pm »
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Have you read through the actual study designs?
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Re: Is there anything to avoid from previous study design for VCAA exams?
« Reply #2 on: September 30, 2012, 02:08:19 pm »
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The biggest things I can think of are:
1. Add the +C when doing indefinite integration
2. Change terminals of integration when making a substitution
3. Give a reason before cancelling out a solution (eg. x > 0)
4. Use absolute values when integrating to become a logarithm
5. When it says "use calculus", you must show a derivative or integral
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Re: Is there anything to avoid from previous study design for VCAA exams?
« Reply #3 on: September 30, 2012, 02:12:44 pm »
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^Nice tips but that isn't the question haha
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Re: Is there anything to avoid from previous study design for VCAA exams?
« Reply #4 on: September 30, 2012, 10:47:50 pm »
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After doing the old VCAA papers, it's pretty much just slope fields that were added, and the fact that your calculator can only be used to graph and evaluate to decimal places (no solve/exact answers etc.)
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