Physics results

[Damo17]

I feel rather stupid compared to everyone else here. Lol, only 8 people at my school did physics out of about 120 students.

Its you school size, rather than anything else.

It was 120 year 12 students. That is not very small I am sure.

120 yr 12's is small. Mine has a few hundred yr 12's.

[NE2000]

A+

Like half my school.

I think that the high cut off reflects how ridiculous the exam was. Seriously, the difference between an A+ and an A wasn't physics - it was whether or not you coloured in the right bubbles on the multiple choice.

what school?

[appianway]

Hmm, I don't want to say it again. If you REALLY want to know, it's posted around here somewhere...

Are you a MHS kid?

[IntoTheNewWorld]

lol female + half the school getting A+...

hmm...

[appianway]

Yeah, it is pretty obvious.

Oh well

[dcc]

...wasn't physics...

This is true of the entire Physics course in VCE. The emphasis is not about learning actual concepts of physics.

Though, when you compare to the Physics subject I took last semester (which was basically a race to see how many concepts we could 'learn' in 12 weeks), it's fun

[IntoTheNewWorld]

If VCE Physics was actual Physics people like me would fail >.<

[appianway]

I'm sure you'd be fine

If VCE physics were real physics, I reckon more people would take it... it'd be more enjoyable!

[QuantumJG]

...wasn't physics...

This is true of the entire Physics course in VCE. The emphasis is not about learning actual concepts of physics.

Though, when you compare to the Physics subject I took last semester (which was basically a race to see how many concepts we could 'learn' in 12 weeks), it's fun

lol yeah it was fun doing all our optics stuff in 2 weeks and trying to learn lorentz transformations the week before swotvac (it wasn't me, my subject put relativity right at the end). This semester's physics seems a lot more to the point as last semester's physics seemed to use atleast 1/3 of our lecture going over stuff that obiviously most of us don't know (i.e. a tensor), but then again its a while still until we look at quantum mechanics.

Wait until you guys do uni physics its like atleast 10x harder than school physics (I was expecting like 40% for my exam and got a 79% - I was so, so, so happy). The mechanics you do is the specialist maths equivalent and the relativity you guys looked at was child's play. Ask your physics teacher about lorentz transformations and my physics nightmare (the pole vaulter running at relativistic speeds through a barn and you need to work out if the pole fits in the barn (obviously at rest its length is greater than the length of the barn).

Oh dcc I may have asked you this before but what area of maths are you wanting to major in?

Discrete, pure, applied, statistics or mathematical physics?

I personally am taking majoring in maths into consideration

[MarcusWong]

so..how many from MHS here?....12K, hey muqi! , appian...who are u? adrian? = / i don't even do physics  :idiot2:

[kashmuq]

lol hi marcus XD

[appianway]

Marcus, I'm not from MHS.

I go to one of the few schools that actually does better than you guys

*Is going to be hated by all of the MHS guys on this forum*

[rhjc.1991]

Marcus, I'm not from MHS.

I go to one of the few schools that actually does better than you guys

*Is going to be hated by all of the MHS guys on this forum*

Meh, we are too cool to be swayed by such remarks. Plus, let's keep school competition out of this. Otherwise, it becomes "we are better than you" BS talk, which is useless and time-wasting.

[appianway]

Yeah, I just didn't want to post my school up here (I know, what a futile attempt to protect my identity).

The entire MHS cohort was eligible for a derived score though, right?

[sebdog117]

does any1 have a copy of the exam but any chance