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Re: 2012 Unit 4 Exam Discussion- How was it?
« Reply #270 on: November 12, 2012, 10:24:32 pm »
Hey guys!

Okay, so BoredSaint and I have written up a set of solutions to the exam. They'll be finalised for formatting and uploaded by around 11pm tonight. I'll post up a link to the solutions in a new thread so that everyone can see them.

My thoughts on the exam:
Overall, it was MUCH easier than Unit 3 (in terms of difficulty and content). Most students should have been able to finish it on time.
A lot of the practical questions were straightforward (there were even marks for a Stock Card?! I saw that question and was like: "....really? In Unit 4 as well."

The only issue I had was with Q3. The wording and layout of the question left a lot to be desired. It wasn't clear what the information was trying to communicate and I'll be interested to see how VCAA ends up dealing with this issue. Everyone I've talked to has drawn different conclusions about what information students were required to insert into the budgeted Income Statement.
I personally feel that the Wages expense information (increased by 5%) already takes into account the accrued wages - the base figure comes from the previous Income Statement, which would have already accounted for any adjustments.

For office expenses, we treated the $28,000 as being the amount of cash paid (the question says "will pay, including GST"). This seems to indicate that it is a cash item, and so an adjustment was made to take into account the prepaid amount.

I really hope you're are happy with how you went - regardless, congratulations on getting through it!

Good luck with any exams you may have left (ECONOMICS IS TOMORROW! WOOOOO!)

Enjoy your well deserved break :)

Sam

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Re: 2012 Unit 4 Exam Discussion- How was it?
« Reply #271 on: November 12, 2012, 10:33:28 pm »
Most of it was Sam, only small part by me :P
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Re: 2012 Unit 4 Exam Discussion- How was it?
« Reply #272 on: November 12, 2012, 10:55:20 pm »
Forgot to add my thoughts on the cut-off.

I think it's going to be around 80 (maybe up to 82?). It was easier than the Unit 3 exam, so it makes sense if the cut-off was slightly higher.

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Re: 2012 Unit 4 Exam Discussion- How was it?
« Reply #273 on: November 12, 2012, 11:04:52 pm »
I've only found one mark I've dropped so far... which is pleasing. VCAA thought they could get me with their tricks, but they could not, huzzah!

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Re: 2012 Unit 4 Exam Discussion- How was it?
« Reply #274 on: November 12, 2012, 11:06:23 pm »
hey guys, also, I got 85.5/90 on the midyear, and the cutoff was 75.5, what do you reckon I'll need to get this exam to have a good chance of getting a 50?

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Re: 2012 Unit 4 Exam Discussion- How was it?
« Reply #275 on: November 12, 2012, 11:15:24 pm »
hey guys, also, I got 85.5/90 on the midyear, and the cutoff was 75.5, what do you reckon I'll need to get this exam to have a good chance of getting a 50?
hey we got the same mark! high five.
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Re: 2012 Unit 4 Exam Discussion- How was it?
« Reply #276 on: November 12, 2012, 11:17:03 pm »
wwwooo  :D i initially got 84 but I found out today VCAA gave me an extra 1.5 marks, finally, VCAA does something right

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Re: 2012 Unit 4 Exam Discussion- How was it?
« Reply #277 on: November 12, 2012, 11:17:52 pm »
wwwooo  :D i initially got 84 but I found out today VCAA gave me an extra 1.5 marks, finally, VCAA does something right

how'd you find out that?

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Re: 2012 Unit 4 Exam Discussion- How was it?
« Reply #278 on: November 12, 2012, 11:19:15 pm »
I called my paper in and my teacher filed a reconciliation form or whatever then she called me today and told me :)

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Re: 2012 Unit 4 Exam Discussion- How was it?
« Reply #279 on: November 12, 2012, 11:20:52 pm »
I called my paper in and my teacher filed a reconciliation form or whatever then she called me today and told me :)

haha oh nice!

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Re: 2012 Unit 4 Exam Discussion- How was it?
« Reply #280 on: November 12, 2012, 11:21:01 pm »
you would need pretty much 1 mark off for 50
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Re: 2012 Unit 4 Exam Discussion- How was it?
« Reply #281 on: November 12, 2012, 11:21:57 pm »
do you get a statement of marks at the end of the year showing your scores for the exams?

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Re: 2012 Unit 4 Exam Discussion- How was it?
« Reply #282 on: November 12, 2012, 11:24:03 pm »
you would need pretty much 1 mark off for 50

well hopefully I didn't lose any more marks, I mode the most stupid mistake, absolutely kicking myself, when doing the first question and being amazingly tired, I didn't realise it was from the customers point of view, even though I entered it in the cheque number and creditors control/ discount revenue columns, I wrote the customer in the details -_-

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Re: 2012 Unit 4 Exam Discussion- How was it?
« Reply #283 on: November 12, 2012, 11:24:46 pm »
do you get a statement of marks at the end of the year showing your scores for the exams?

yeah I called my statement of marks in then wasn't happy so I called my paper into school and went through it with my teacher and we found some errors the markers made :)

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Re: 2012 Unit 4 Exam Discussion- How was it?
« Reply #284 on: November 12, 2012, 11:27:50 pm »
do you get a statement of marks at the end of the year showing your scores for the exams?

yeah I called my statement of marks in then wasn't happy so I called my paper into school and went through it with my teacher and we found some errors the markers made :)

oh okay. so you don't receive it if you don't call for it?