Exam Thoughts & Review

[agro]

About the extended response hypothesis, my teacher is  a VCAA assessor and she said they can't penalise where students operationalise a hypothesis when it asks for a research hypothesis unless an assessor's report says so. And the mid year chief-assessor's report said that students would not be penalised on that exam an
 did not say anything about students being penalised in future so you should be okay if you operationalised it.

but didnt it ask for it to be operationalised?

[REBORN]

It asked for a hypothesis which is not meant to be operationalised according to u3 assessors report but they didn't penalise you for it.....but you don't know why they didn't; feeling nice or bcoz it was the first exam of a new SD?

[agro]

I think I gave both the hypotheses and the operationalised hypotheses.

[ketts726]

btw, does anyone know if the grade distributions for the exam come out before we receive our scores (like the midyears)?

[izzykose]

^this

[buzzwith]

btw, does anyone know if the grade distributions for the exam come out before we receive our scores (like the midyears)?

If i remember correctly, they came out before our results.

[ketts726]

okay thats good, takes a bit of the edge off for when we find out as scores as we'll have a more accurate estimation then blindly gussing now (although it will still be a fairly blind estimation haha)

[nmonogamy]

end of year was harder than mid years in my opinion,

[agro]

Straight after the exam I thought this one was easier then the mid year, now after reading all this stuff and looking back on it I reckon this one was way harder in regards to SA questions

[REBORN]

^ agreed. SA was much more sophisticated. MCQ was ambiguous making it harder. ER was easier.

[MeLucky]

Hope the cut-off for A+ is around the same for mid-year..  *sigh*
I really hate myself for taking my time on SA...

[Anon123]

Its hard to say where the cutoff will be
-the midyear was so low because the ER raped a LOT of people; I mean I don't blame them either, VCAA were being complete assholes by asking that

But this time while MCQ was dodgy, and SA was "weird", and most people I think that many people would have struggled with the detailed study, but ER was easy.

But when you think about it, -5 for MCQ, -5 for SA, -2 for detailed study and -2 for ER sounds like an eh score, but that is 76/90...I dunno guys, I'm thinking between 73-75 for the A+ cutoff

[REBORN]

prediction - 75.

[nemolala]

well i hope its pretty low because that exam was quite ambiguous. And i hate the fact that they didn't even bother to examine the significant parts of the unit. 

[che0106]

hated section c cos didn't have time to do STAV's trial paper..section c of the exam was the same as STAV's....