VCE Year 12 Class of 2015

[TheMereCat]

That's alright, tbh 5 mins in reading time probably isn't going to affect your score too much.

And neither will you All we can do is let failure motivate us to study harder for the coming weeks I suppose. Fuck the English exam

One quote - mostly likely not. Two quotes - fairly unlikely unless they're very familiar with the text

I know your signature is a joke and all, and you'll probably reach your aims anyway, but your sudden change of your signature from 50 or bust to 1 in specialist maths actually made me laugh hahaha. XD

[tashhhaaa]

I know your signature is a joke and all, and you'll probably reach your aims anyway, but your sudden change of your signature from 50 or bust to 1 in specialist maths actually made me laugh hahaha. XD

same but I didn't want to mention it in case it was legit

[99.90 pls]

I know your signature is a joke and all, and you'll probably reach your aims anyway, but your sudden change of your signature from 50 or bust to 1 in specialist maths actually made me laugh hahaha. XD

same but I didn't want to mention it in case it was legit

Pretty sure it's impossible to get a 1 unless you actively try to fuck up hahaha (surely one would get some multi-choice questions right if they guessed them all)

[schooliskool]

Well that was fucking dreadful

Imaginative landscape prompt was 'every place offers different imaginative possiblities'
anyone know what that means coz i surely don't
kms

did it annoy anyone else that bigsplash didn't have a capital B -_- and that matthew had one t -_-

m8 who names their company/organisation bigsplash

[Mc47]

Pretty sure it's impossible to get a 1 unless you actively try to fuck up hahaha (surely one would get some multi-choice questions right if they guessed them all)

If you want I'm sure I could manage to get a 1 for you

You can do my spesh exam

[schooliskool]

Pretty sure it's impossible to get a 1 unless you actively try to fuck up hahaha (surely one would get some multi-choice questions right if they guessed them all)

Answer them and then circle the wrong answers 

[Orb]

Pretty sure it's impossible to get a 1 unless you actively try to fuck up hahaha (surely one would get some multi-choice questions right if they guessed them all)

To get a study score of 1 in Specialist Maths you need to get 0/120.
Getting 1/120 actually boosts your study score to around 5-7, soooooooo
Mate if you just guess C for all the M.C You'll get a study score of 10+, guaranteed! XD

[IndefatigableLover]

To get a study score of 1 in Specialist Maths you need to get 0/120.
Getting 1/120 actually boosts your study score to around 5-7, soooooooo
Mate if you just guess C for all the M.C You'll get a study score of 10+, guaranteed! XD

Gets Study Score of 1 yet gets a scaled score over 10 #inscalingwetrust

[99.90 pls]

To get a study score of 1 in Specialist Maths you need to get 0/120.
Getting 1/120 actually boosts your study score to around 5-7, soooooooo
Mate if you just guess C for all the M.C You'll get a study score of 10+, guaranteed! XD

4517 kids doing Spesh, and 106 kids didn't rock up to the exam. So that means the worst kid in the state would be ranked 107th, placing them in the bottom 2.369% (100/4517*107).

VCAA says on their website that they use a mean of 30, standard deviation of 7 when calculating study scores. Using these parameters, if we take the integral from -infinity to 15.5 of such a normal distribution (i.e. a study score of 15, since VCAA rounds to the nearest integer) and times it by 100 to get a percentage, we get about 1.9%.

WHICH MEANS that as long as you rock up to the Spesh exams, shade in the bubbles and leave, you're GUARANTEED at least a study score of 15, if not 16. Which scales up to 24.2, according to VTAC's scaling report (it says the mean SCALED score for spesh is 40.6 and the standard deviation for SCALED scores is 8.3; plug these into the normal distribution and integrating from -infinity to 24.2 gets you approximately 2.4%. The kid is ranked 2.369%)

MORAL OF THE STORY? If you're someone planning on doing five subjects for VCE, why not pick up Spesh in Year 10 or 11? All you have to do is rock up to the exam and you'll get a guaranteed boost of 2.4 to your aggregate. Also, if you're a Year 12 failing Spesh, there is hope! hahahaha

Wolfram Alpha syntax for this is: 100 * definite integral from -infinity to 15.5 e^(-((x-30)/7)^2/2)/(7sqrt(2*pi)) if anyone is interested lol

[tashhhaaa]

what would you need to get on the methods exam to get above 10? my SACs are shit (just passed)

I'm actually that desperate laugh if you will #onelesscompetitor

[GeniDoi]

Awe cheer up people. We are in VCAAs swamp now, and we need to keep our heads high. We may not win this battle but we will win the war.

[GeniDoi]

what would you need to get on the methods exam to get above 10? my SACs are shit (just passed)

I'm actually that desperate laugh if you will #onelesscompetitor

Shading c isn't the best idea. Even if you have never done a methods question in your life you should be some what aware of the similarities of MC answers. There's almost always one or two that completely and obviously don't fit with the rest, and from there try to find the pair with flipped signs (Eg, A is 3/4 and D is -3/4) , and just pick one.

By increasing the chance of getting the right answer from 20% to 40-50% you boosted your MC mark to anywhere from 8-12/22 using absolutely no methods knowledge whatsoever!

[tashhhaaa]

Shading c isn't the best idea. Even if you have never done a methods question in your life you should be some what aware of the similarities of MC answers. There's almost always one or two that completely and obviously don't fit with the rest, and from there try to find the pair with flipped signs (Eg, A is 3/4 and D is -3/4) , and just pick one.

By increasing the chance of getting the right answer from 20% to 40-50% you boosted your MC mark to anywhere from 8-12/22 using absolutely no methods knowledge whatsoever!

thanks for the tip! This was something I only realised for my last SAC, and I think that's how I passed lol

so theoretically if I got 0 for everything and only got a few right for MC...?
(yep it's over)

[99.90 pls]

thanks for the tip! This was something I only realised for my last SAC, and I think that's how I passed lol

so theoretically if I got 0 for everything and only got a few right for MC...?
(yep it's over)

If you made educated guesses for MC, you'd get higher than 10. Getting a 10 means you're worse than 99.8% of the state, which isn't very likely, because I imagine more than 0.2% of the state would just walk out or shade all C's. You'll be fine. Just cram hard for the coming days and you'll have done more work (and hopefully get a higher grade) than like 25% of the state.

[Orb]

If you made educated guesses for MC, you'd get higher than 10. Getting a 10 means you're worse than 99.8% of the state, which isn't very likely, because I imagine more than 0.2% of the state would just walk out or shade all C's. You'll be fine. Just cram hard for the coming days and you'll have done more work (and hopefully get a higher grade) than like 25% of the state.

The beloved normal curve that is encapsulated within Mathematical Methods (CAS)