difference between methods CAS and methods NON CAS

[molllz]

This is methods CAS::

 http://www.vcaa.vic.edu.au/vce/studies/mathematics/cas/casexams.html

this is methods non CAS:

http://www.vcaa.vic.edu.au/vce/studies/mathematics/methods/exams.html

Why do they both have 2009 exams?? and in further they have CAS since 2006? is that right?

Im confused

[Lasercookie]

Why wouldn't they have both have exams? Methods Non-CAS and Methods (CAS) were technically two different subjects.

You use a CAS calculator in CAS (as the name suggests). Methods Non-CAS no longer exists, hence why there isn't a 2010 exam.

That's why they both have their own set of exams (I think they were identical though). Of course, the scaling and stuff would be different. They couldn't let some students use a CAS and then some students not use a CAS and then scale them exactly the same. I suspect that would be one of the reasons to make them two different subjects.

The other reason I can think of would have been to slowly phase out Non-CAS. It'd be easier and smoother to go slowly from non-CAS to CAS. Probably wouldn't have been smooth if VCAA came out in 2006 and said that everybody has to use CAS. 

There'd be other reasons, but it makes sense for it to be considered two different subjects.

edit: fixed typo

[molllz]

Why wouldn't they have both have exams? Methods Non-CAS and Methods (CAS) were technically two different subjects.

You use a CAS calculator in CAS (as the name suggests). Methods Non-CAS no longer exists, hence why there isn't a 2010 exam.

That's why they both have their own set of exams (I think they were identical though). Of course, the scaling and stuff would be different. They couldn't let some students use a CAS and then some students not use a CAS and then scale them exactly the same. I suspect that would be one of the reasons to make them two different subjects.

The other reason I can think of would have been to slowly phase out Non-CAS. It'd be easier and smoother to go slowly from non-CAS to CAS. Probably wouldn't have been smooth if VCAA came out in 2006 and said that everybody has to use CAS. 

There'd be other reasons, but it makes sense for it to be considered two different subjects.

edit: fixed typo

Oh so they were totally different subjects, that makes sense... thanks , but why was CAS being scaled up by more? when it should be easier as there the same questions?

[Lasercookie]

Oh so they were totally different subjects, that makes sense... thanks , but why was CAS being scaled up by more? when it should be easier as there the same questions?

Sorry, I only looked at the Exams 1. The exam 2 was different.

[b^3]

Oh so they were totally different subjects, that makes sense... thanks , but why was CAS being scaled up by more? when it should be easier as there the same questions?

Sorry, I only looked at the Exams 1. The exam 2 was different.

That would be as exam 1 is without calculator while exam 2 is with calculator.