How did everyone go with the exam?

[petitties]

yeah thats what I meant, but you cant really bomb through the year on sacs and if you somehow miraculously get top marks in sacs, there's no way you would just get the top SAC scores in your school.

I think your SACs would get scaled by a combination of your own exam score, cohort score, gats etc.

[saifh]

yeah thats what I meant, but you cant really bomb through the year on sacs and if you somehow miraculously get top marks in sacs, there's no way you would just get the top SAC scores in your school.

I think your SACs would get scaled by a combination of your own exam score, cohort score, gats etc.

I'd prefer if they scaled your cohort ranked SAC score with your actual SAC score. I don't think the GAT would affect it, and if it did very minimally.

[petitties]

The whole cohort GATs have some effect on the school's scaling, they use it as a way of determining the difficulty of your school's sacs compared with how they did on the GAT. Of course the exam provides the best method for this comparison.

[saifh]

The whole cohort GATs have some effect on the school's scaling, they use it as a way of determining the difficulty of your school's sacs compared with how they did on the GAT. Of course the exam provides the best method for this comparison.

I was told the GAT is just an indication of how you should do. Shouldn't of fell asleep in the exam. =/

I'm fairly confident with a 87% overall with SACs and possibly a 74/90 COULD get me a 40 if the cutoff is as low as 65-68/90, seeing that a 74 would come to something like a 92-93%.

[superbach]

Really Happy with how i went today, i was not excpecting the normalisation question but felt i did well overall, hopefully a 75/90 A+

[abraverman]

Really Happy with how i went today, i was not excpecting the normalisation question but felt i did well overall, hopefully a 75/90 A+

It's a good read - Difference between 1NF, 2NF and 3NF? 

[Biceps]

anyone got the paper?

[bato94]

I found that most of the exam was based on pure common sense. Considering it failed to cover a majority of what we'd learnt throughout the year, the questions were vague and didn't leave much room for us to showcase our abilities.

With that being said, the multiple choice was piss-easy as the first five or so questions were based on the Problem Solving Methodology.

The cut-off will no doubt be high but I think I answered the questions well enough to score a high(ish) score. Fingers crossed. 

[Lasercookie]

The beginnings of Mark Kelly's 2012 post-mortem is up http://www.vceit.com/postmortems/2012ita/ita2012.htm

Currently only the multiple choice questions have been scanned in. The short answer questions haven't been put up yet.

Most of the MC do not look too bad at all.

[Genericname2365]

Got 12 wrong as I suspected I would (I didn't want to spend too long on it so I just put an answer and intended to get back to it but never did), got 19 wrong (and I agree it was a poor question) and I got the scope MC wrong as well which I shouldn't have. Not too bad though.

[Biceps]

It was easier than last years exam

[Genericname2365]

I confidently predict that the average mark for this question will be about 1.5 out of 6! Six marks for a normalisation question is grossly excessive and unfair. Detailed normalisation theory is not something for year 12 students to have to worry about.

Amen to that. 

[Lasercookie]

I confidently predict that the average mark for this question will be about 1.5 out of 6! Six marks for a normalisation question is grossly excessive and unfair. Detailed normalisation theory is not something for year 12 students to have to worry about.

Amen to that. 

By the end of last year, I actually ended up liking the theory part of databases in apps

I think I'm tending towards approving of the normalisation question. I would interpret it as VCAA trying to make IT Apps a subject that focuses a bit more on relatively meaty content rather than the dull dull dull organisations type stuff that the subject is filled with.

[MJRomeo81]

Interesting exam. Plenty of easy marks to be gained but it seems like VCAA decided to separate students based on their normalisation skills.  I lost count of how many "identify/list/name" 1 markers they had.

I just had a quick look at Kelly's post-mortem (isn't finished yet but the questions are up). MC seemed really easy aside from some poor wording. Is it just me or do you guys agree that Kelly got it wrong on Q16?:

Question 16
Determining the scope of a solution includes
A.      identifying the functions the solution has to provide.
B.      determining what the solution can and cannot do.
C.      identifying the constraints of the solution.
D.      planning the appearance of the solution.

Answer is A. That's what scope means.

Obviously the answer isn't D (design). Same as C (solution constraints).

http://www.vceit.com/PSM/psm.htm

Determining the scope of the solution. What can the solution do? What can't the solution do? What are the benefits of the solution to the user? The scope states the boundaries or parameters of the solution.

Perhaps it's because I haven't studied the PSM in so long, but I always thought scope was what the solution could and couldn't do (B).

[Genericname2365]

B's what I put, and your logic sounds right. I'd say he glanced over it quickly.