JMSS 2014 Testing Talk!

[Rilin]

I messed up heaps on the essays, but I did really well on all the questions. Hopefully I still get an interview

[Shinkaze]

Did you actually put your hands on your head near the toilet Shin? Haha .

Yes I did...I either actually put it on top of my heads or pretending to have a really oily hair and I'm fixing my hair but I tried to put my hands on my head. However, I didn't see anyone sadly....

[wulfahh]

I'm assuming around 700?

Yeah I spoke to one of the French teachers on the day and he said about 750 applicants

[Undeadeast15]

Yeah I spoke to one of the French teachers on the day and he said about 750 applicants

Only 750!! Last year we had over 1000 applicants!

[Jamin2906]

I didn't meet anybody

Yeah, went pretty well on the test. I finished all of them and did really well except for the last essay. I messed up on it and didn't finish in time. Other than that I did pretty well.

How about the rest of y'all?

I asked this random kid wearing a blue puma jacket (like hannibal was gonna wear) but he said he didn't know atarnotes
Very embarrising

[Robert243]

Hey guys just out of curiosity what were your writing topics for both essays .

[waftj]

Hey guys just out of curiosity what were your writing topics for both essays .

Topic 1: Either to design an experiment on how salt affects the boiling point or explain the difference between respiratory and circulatory system and pick one

Topic 2: Your a primary school teacher and you are to teach a grade 5 student on the difference between an atom and cell

LOL i think my topic 1 is actually better than topic 2. 

[Robert243]

Topic 1: Either to design an experiment on how salt affects the boiling point or explain the difference between respiratory and circulatory system and pick one

Topic 2: Your a primary school teacher and you are to teach a grade 5 student on the difference between an atom and cell

LOL i think my topic 1 is actually better than topic 2.

damn these topics are hard

[SKGUN11]

Yeah I spoke to one of the French teachers on the day and he said about 750 applicants

WOW! I really hope that is true! I hope I passed the cut off mark for interviews!

[SKGUN11]

For the first essay, did anyone do the first option on the prac? Did anyone do a discussion or explain why they thought the temperature of boiling increases/decreases?

[waftj]

Btw guys, just due to curiosity did everyone end up solving every questions??
Me:
Science Reasoning: Hard for me to interpret, but end up answering every question.. (prob the hardest out of them all)
Numerical Reasoning: Pretty straight forward, no biggie. But there were a few i had a glance and immediately guessed, because i realised there is not way i will finish it on time.
Essay Topic 1: Hum... it was alright knew exactly what I was going to write.
Maths: Wasn't hard, but time was an issue to me... skipped between 5-9ish....
Essay Topic 2: LOL I found that kind of difficult, because it wasn't what I expected. Never the less, still wrote a solid 1 and 1/4 pages- but made it look like 1 and 1/2 ish with 2 large diagrams.

LOL and for topic 2, what ideas did you guys jotted down? LOL I just described the difference structure, function of the nucleus and how atoms have Ionic Bond. LOL I could of written heaps more, but then I only have 3 mins left once i finished paragraph 4 so I just quickly summed up with a conclusion and gave myself enough time to quickly correct some minor spelling and grammar errors.

[Hannibal]

Btw guys, just due to curiosity did everyone end up solving every questions??
Me:
Science Reasoning: Hard for me to interpret, but end up answering every question.. (prob the hardest out of them all)
Numerical Reasoning: Pretty straight forward, no biggie. But there were a few i had a glance and immediately guessed, because i realised there is not way i will finish it on time.
Essay Topic 1: Hum... it was alright knew exactly what I was going to write.
Maths: Wasn't hard, but time was an issue to me... skipped between 5-9ish....
Essay Topic 2: LOL I found that kind of difficult, because it wasn't what I expected. Never the less, still wrote a solid 1 and 1/4 pages- but made it look like 1 and 1/2 ish with 2 large diagrams.

LOL and for topic 2, what ideas did you guys jotted down? LOL I just described the difference structure, function of the nucleus and how atoms have Ionic Bond. LOL I could of written heaps more, but then I only have 3 mins left once i finished paragraph 4 so I just quickly summed up with a conclusion and gave myself enough time to quickly correct some minor spelling and grammar errors.

I finished all the questions, but barely .

For the second essay I did an introduction, a paragraph on atoms, three on cells, and then explained the differences between them in a conclusion. Managed to roughly do two diagrams, really messy though . Having to explain to 11 hear olds really limited me... Hopefully I gain marks for a fairly understandable explanation .

[SKGUN11]

LOL and for topic 2, what ideas did you guys jotted down? LOL I just described the difference structure, function of the nucleus and how atoms have Ionic Bond. LOL I could of written heaps more, but then I only have 3 mins left once i finished paragraph 4 so I just quickly summed up with a conclusion and gave myself enough time to quickly correct some minor spelling and grammar errors.

I did,

Cells
- Simple Definition.
- Basic Structure of plant and animal cells.
- Photosynthesis (after explaining about chlorophyll in plant cells).
- Cell Division.
- Uncontrollable cell division (cancer).
- Diagram.
Atoms
- Simple Definition.
- Comparing Size (1000 atoms on pin tip)
- Protons, Neutrons and Electrons.
- Quarks.
- Isotopes and radioisotopes.
- Nuclear Fission.
- Diagrams.


I found
Science Reasoning: The most difficult paper for me. Some were easy but some were WTF?!! Hopefully I did well, ICAS is easier!
Numerical Reasoning: Easy! Mostly patterns that were quite simple! Skipped long paragraph questions though because I knew there would be no time for them. Finished the paper but still guessed about 5.
Essay 1: Did the prac question and wrote that the boiling temperature does increase. I then in the discussion wrote about how they are ionicly bonded and the particles are much larger in the solution, so it would be harder to vibrate, thus harder to boil! Fogot to write about convection  I know my guess was not correct but hopefully they mark me for scientifically thinking or something   
Maths: Easy! Did guess like 10 though but finished the test. Skipped complicated ones. I remember one of them asked us to find the equation of turning Fahrenheit into Celsius!
Essay 2: I was so happy when I saw this! Drew like 4 mini diagrams and wrote about the stuff I mentioned earlier!

[waftj]

I finished all the questions, but barely .

For the second essay I did an introduction, a paragraph on atoms, three on cells, and then explained the differences between them in a conclusion. Managed to roughly do two diagrams, really messy though . Having to explain to 11 hear olds really limited me... Hopefully I gain marks for a fairly understandable explanation .

LOL GUYS hopefully everyone on this forum made into the interview!! Hahaha but then overall, I think my essay 1 was better than essay 2 LOL

Hahaha yea and hopefully the examiners were impressed how I remembered every single part of the heart.

[Shinkaze]

For the first essay, did anyone do the first option on the prac? Did anyone do a discussion or explain why they thought the temperature of boiling increases/decreases?

Yes I did but the reason was wrong LOL at least I kinda attempt and was kinda able to justify why...\

LOL and for topic 2, what ideas did you guys jotted down?

For cells is just like two sentence LOL I just wrote the really basics things in a cell eg. cell wall because I don't know anything about biology oh and I slightly talked about the DNA in the nucleus? ...Spent too much time trying to write about biology and didn't end up much with atoms although I knew way more in this...I wrote what is protons, neutrons and electrons, what is a compound and electrons conduct electricity, atomic number and mass of the elements with a diagram of an atom ( I don't remember the element name so I just drew random number of protons, neutrons and electrons