Australian Science Olympiad Physics NQE 2014

[cooldude123]

Anyone here do it? How'd you go?

A few students just walked out ten minutes in from our school after seeing the exam.

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Anyone here do it? How'd you go?

A few students just walked out ten minutes in from our school after seeing the exam.

I think I got completely shat on.

I got the tea losing 1.5 degrees every 30 seconds, so that obviously couldn'tve been right

Ended up with 1.5/4 extended responses and most of the multi choice.

There were two guys in my class that got 3/4 and 4/4 respectively though :/

[AirLandBus]

Hahahaha, so glad i came across this thread. I was in a group of 4 who competed this year (top 4 in cohort). We were royally f'ed, did the multiple choice with relative ease, as soon as we hit the extended response we all had no chance. We thought we were just dumb as dog (you know what), and even knowing that they were pretty damm difficult, i didnt expect them to be that extremely difficult. Anyway, good fun was had in that lesson!

[jameslian]

Anyone have the question paper or remember the questions? These are what I remember

 - tea question
 - rotating galaxies question
 - forces, acceleration car question?

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and there was that spring constant question and the chocolate question

update: i think u had to get 3+ EQ to make summer school :3 and the results are out not that i made it anyway lel

[jameslian]

Ohhh yeah i remember those two. Anyone have a copy of the exam by any chance?

[IndefatigableLover]

Ohhh yeah i remember those two. Anyone have a copy of the exam by any chance?

Haha exams are never given out since you had to put all your details on it and hand it in after the exam >.<
They upload past exams here but maybe next year or the next two years (alternatively you could ask your school to buy copies of it I believe).

@hamo94 I haven't heard from anyone at school who made the Physics Summer School but I know a person who made the Earth and Environmental Summer School! Our school releases results in a few weeks time at assembly though but I'm expecting a couple of HD's from the Physics department at our school :3

[jameslian]

Anyone here been to summer school for physics? What's it like? o_0 Sounds really intense, judging by the prize that is at stake - chance to represent Australia at the international physics olympiad overseas.

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Anyone here been to summer school for physics? What's it like? o_0 Sounds really intense, judging by the prize that is at stake - chance to represent Australia at the international physics olympiad overseas.

nope but yeah it's pretty intense, apparently it's just like lectures and exams everyday

-someone got into bio chem and physics from our school, insane

[thushan]

Hamo's got it right. It's extremely intense.

[dyskontent]

nope but yeah it's pretty intense, apparently it's just like lectures and exams everyday

-someone got into bio chem and physics from our school, insane

Yeah, that's insane, was he invited this year or a previous year? Apparently the website says they send out the results in October.

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Yeah, that's insane, was he invited this year or a previous year? Apparently the website says they send out the results in October.

This year, they've sent out the calls out for all the Golds.

It's only Silver, Bronzes and HDs that get sent out in Oct :/

Hopefully I get something hahaha

[lzxnl]

Summer school is AWESOME. Enough said.


The chemistry summer school was two weeks in which you cover the whole of first year chemistry and some extra topics from second and third year university chemistry (following the UoM syllabus at least). You have a prac, 3 lectures, 2 tutes (I think) everyday.
It was an awesome two weeks. My only regret is not getting enough sleep everyday. I'd do something similar again, definitely. If you get in, I highly do NOT recommend refusing the offer to go. You meet great people, you stay away from home for a bit, the food isn't too bad and you just get to have lots of fun in general. It really is a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity. I reckon bio and physics would be equally as intense.

Plus, it really helps with VCE and puts the difficulty of VCE in perspective.

[thushan]

This year, they've sent out the calls out for all the Golds.

It's only Silver, Bronzes and HDs that get sent out in Oct :/

Hopefully I get something hahaha

They give Gold/Silver/Bronze out now?

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They give Gold/Silver/Bronze out now?

I believe so

What did you have back then?