Specialist Mathematics Examination 2 discussion

[Stevensmay]

How did everyone find today's exam?

I thought most of it was quite accessible, apart from some of the stupid telephone questions.
Quite liked the MC as well as the vector, complex and dynamics questions.

Haven't realised any stupid mistakes yet but I'm sure I will in time.

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[AsianNerd]

couldnt answer 2 multiple choice and the 2 mark question where u had to find the double diff of the loge(N) thing in terms of N and loge(N)

[DylanFitzmaurice]

I am thinking I got Between 60-69/80 (accounting for 9 questions wrong for MC, just in case) Yeah that telephone question had some pretty darn weird values, So i think the majority of the cohort with lose atleast SOME type of marks from that. Apart from that, a few silly mistakes here and there (I knew that the m's could cancel for the last question, but I set up the equation wrong-__-) Otherwise very accessible exam

[Uberjew]

looking at 77 or 78 however i have not looked at solutions. not sure if easier than last year or just feels it to me but many in my cohort felt it was easy/we went well.  hopefully a+ is no more than 75/80

[Jtc]

what was everyones answer to the angle between vector a and c i initially had 88 than changed it to 75 is either right?

[adam_s95]

I got 75.5 degrees

same here

[simba]

Lol I got like >100 degrees. Thought it looked off :/

[whichkim]

I'd be lucky to get 50% tbh.

[ahat]

I found this exam harder than Methods 2 D:

[Alwin]

b a d.

I found this exam harder than Methods 2 D:

And isn't it supposed to be harder?

inb4 nliu and brightsky happy there were hard questions

[jeff.]

Found it similar to all past exams except for the telephone question. That has some weird results...

[random_person]

Really? WAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAYYYYYYYYYYYYYY easier than methods 2

I think i will get a higher raw for spesh than methods

[simba]

I just couldn't focus the first hour it was so horrible
There crumbles my hopes, dreams and aspirations of 40+ for this subject.

[Stick]

I thought it was of average difficulty and roughly akin to the other VCAA Specialist Maths Exam 2s. I managed to answer everything except for one part of the telephone question (the second derivative) but I know I've made a couple of silly errors as well. I'm expecting a raw result better than my Methods result though.

[Alwin]

Which questions do you think were hard?

I thought it was easy and I got less than 30/40 on exam 1...

Not hard per se, but would be "less accessible" such as the d²N/dt² one (which I screwed up too). Like the method isn't hard, implicit diff both sides and sub in dN/dt and other relevant stuff, but a lot of the people in my class couldn't get that question.

So actually I meant that I went bad coz I made silly errors so glad I had 10min at the end to double check and found a few (had N=mg at one point... lol =\) but from the general vibe of my class was that they felt it was a harder exam.

Actually I kinda liked it haha coz there was a nice balance with a lot of straight forward accessible problems. MC was pretty nice too