Methods Exam 1: Discussion!

[Jnf17]

For last year it was somewhere in the range of 114/120
It varies every year, to be truly safe, somewhere like 118/120 would guarantee you 48+

What about for a 40+?

[unifrom64]

i got 19/40 for exam 1 what would i need for get out of 80 on exam 2 to get at least a 30ss?

[Kuroyuki]

I think I got about 35/36 (idek) out of 40and like I'm stressing so much now since so many people seem to have gotten 100% you know, my SAC marks are around 100% scaled, so if I did well on Exam 2, is there any chance at all for like 46/47? (

well some guy last year got
100/100 sacs
36/40
72.5/80
45 SS
so yeah its possible to get 46/47

[faredcarsking123]

If you write the wrong equation (similar to what it should be but 1 number accidentally different

and work correctly to get an answer that is correct for your working, do you get the answer mark or not?

[jekee]

t'was a day for comical errors, indeed. Somehow in my stress I calculated the endpoint in 5.b as (-1, 2) instead of
(-1,4) and that means 5c is screwed as well =////////

And for q6 I rooted both sides instead of squaring both sides in the last step, ffs. I hope I get some mercy from the examiners.

[BLACKCATT]

So i checked old threads about simplifying numerical values.. apparently it depends on each year to whether the exam was hard or not. So do you think i would penalised for not simplifying 10/12 --> 5/6??
Do we also need to simplify in exam 2

[extremeftw]

t'was a day for comical errors, indeed. Somehow in my stress I calculated the endpoint in 5.b as (-1, 2) instead of
(-1,4) and that means 5c is screwed as well =////////

And for q6 I rooted both sides instead of squaring both sides in the last step, ffs. I hope I get some mercy from the examiners.

 I did the same thing for Q6, just had a brainfart =/.

[althepal]

I made a stupid arithmetic error in the probably question giving me 2/3 instead of 19/34 so I know I lost that mark. If I used 2/3 in the conditional probability question would I still get at least 1 mark?

[Wbby]

Just compared my answers to the answers in the other thread. I am laughing so hard right now. I got 4/40. Thank god I stopped caring about this subject midway through the year. Pumped for my 5 SS now

[whatupvas]

Just compared my answers to the answers in the other thread. I am laughing so hard right now. I got 4/40. Thank god I stopped caring about this subject midway through the year. Pumped for my 5 SS now

same here bud

[Aman476]

I'm so confused, like i thought all 'sac' marks that you get are external (come from an exam), so like if you were ranked second in sacs, youd get the second highest exam mark as your sac mark - isnt that how it works, like even if you aced your sacs, if the highest exam mark wasn't 100, doesn't that mean your sac score is smaller than 100?

[mcelle888]

t'was a day for comical errors, indeed. Somehow in my stress I calculated the endpoint in 5.b as (-1, 2) instead of
(-1,4) and that means 5c is screwed as well =////////

And for q6 I rooted both sides instead of squaring both sides in the last step, ffs. I hope I get some mercy from the examiners.

I did the same thing for Q6, just had a brainfart =/.

Me three for Q6, don't know what was going through my head :l

Other than that, the last question was awful, only until there was like 2 minutes before the end that I realised I had to use similar triangles but by then it was too late to finish the question :c

[d4m0]

I'm so confused, like i thought all 'sac' marks that you get are external (come from an exam), so like if you were ranked second in sacs, youd get the second highest exam mark as your sac mark - isnt that how it works, like even if you aced your sacs, if the highest exam mark wasn't 100, doesn't that mean your sac score is smaller than 100?

Yes, that's how it works as far as I know. Getting a 100/100 sac score just guarantees that you topped your class and thus got your own exam marks as sac scores unless someone in your class beat you (in which case you get their exam marks as sac scores). So for the example posted above the guy didn't actually get 100% for sac scores unless someone else in his class aced both exams.

[yoyoball]

I'm so confused, like i thought all 'sac' marks that you get are external (come from an exam), so like if you were ranked second in sacs, youd get the second highest exam mark as your sac mark - isnt that how it works, like even if you aced your sacs, if the highest exam mark wasn't 100, doesn't that mean your sac score is smaller than 100?

vcaa gets your internally scaled sac marks. Highest being 100 for your cohort (ie. top rank for your school) and then theyll base the external scaling of your sacs on how well your cohort as a whole does on the exam. Assuming that if you all did really well you just had hard sacs and so youll get scaled up alot. If you all do poorly your sac will get scaled down assuming you had easy sacs. So it really is team work haha. But ofcourse there are gonna be outliers so dont worry too much as long as you do well on younr exam. They try and make it as fair as possible. (All heard from me teachaaaar dont know if its actually tru)

[outtaheresoon]

i spent so much time on this subject but i lost everything to careless mistakes 
is there a chance i can get 45+ss if i got 32-34/40??? 
(in a strong cohort so likely 95-100% scaled sac scores)