How picky are examiners?

[Tasmania Jones]

Oh really?  I didn't think they were that picky...
Thanks for the prompt reply though 

[Damoz.G]

Oh really?  I didn't think they were that picky...
Thanks for the prompt reply though 

Yeah, always use Exact Values unless otherwise stated to "Give your answer to __ decimal places".

1/3≠0.33 (Its 0.33 recurring).

So always leave your answer as an Exact Value. Personally, I prefer to stick with fractions, and then you can't go wrong.

[achre]

log_e(x) or ln(x)?

[Damoz.G]

log_e(x) or ln(x)?

Means the exact same thing, but usually I use log_e(x) to avoid the possibility of using copy/paste from CAS (Which sometimes loses marks if CAS syntax is used).

[b^3]

Means the exact same thing, but usually I use log_e(x) to avoid the possibility of using copy/paste from CAS (Which sometimes loses marks if CAS syntax is used).

isn't cas syntax, is the proper maths way of writing it (well they're both proper maths ways, I mean in actual maths it's convention to use . With that being said, we've heard that apparently vcaa doesn't like , so it's better to stick with (I'm not sure if you'd actually lose any marks or not if you didn't though).

Really some years they'll be more picker than others. If it is an easy exam, then to separate people they'll be more picky, and if it's a hard exam, they may be a little bit more lax. Before the group of teachers and such that get to go mark the exam, they have a big meeting and agree on how they're going to mark it which can change each year depending on what the head assessor decides.

[Damoz.G]

isn't cas syntax, is the proper maths way of writing it (well they're both proper maths ways, I mean in actual maths it's convention to use . With that being said, we've heard that apparently vcaa doesn't like , so it's better to stick with (I'm not sure if you'd actually lose any marks or not if you didn't though).

Really some years they'll be more picker than others. If it is an easy exam, then to separate people they'll be more picky, and if it's a hard exam, they may be a little bit more lax. Before the group of teachers and such that get to go mark the exam, they have a big meeting and agree on how they're going to mark it which can change each year depending on what the head assessor decides.

I know its not CAS Syntax, but I just avoid it.

[BigAl]

log_e(x) or ln(x)?

Well I'm lazy and I've been using ln(x) all the time..it's not a problem at all. I've seen couple of people using exp(x) instead of e^x at uni...also meteorologists love i,j,k hat although I use a tilde for vector notation so it's totally your choice

[BubbleWrapMan]

I'm not doing 3/4 methods this year, but just out of interest, if you wrote BOTH the exact answer and the decimal approximation, you will not get any marks taken off right?

e.g
*random working*
=1/3
=0.33

Thanks 

They go by whatever you give as your final answer. So if you wrote that they'd probably take a mark off (unless they wanted the two decimals).

Just give an exact answer unless asked otherwise.

[Tasmania Jones]

They go by whatever you give as your final answer. So if you wrote that they'd probably take a mark off (unless they wanted the two decimals).

Just give an exact answer unless asked otherwise.

Ah okay thanks