VCE Maths Methods Exam 1 Discussion and Solutions

[cookiedream]

Don't stress mate, exam 2 tomorrow could save us (  or fuck us completely   ) let's just worry about that now.

Usually it's (unfortunately) the latter Exam 1 tends to be much easier than Exam 2, so I suggest to be mentally prepared for the last extended response question for tomorrow.

[blehblop]

Do you guys think a 35/40 might slide into an A+ ? soo disappointed in myself but obviously moving on.

[Ahmad_A_1999]

Usually it's (unfortunately) the latter Exam 1 tends to be much easier than Exam 2, so I suggest to be mentally prepared for the last extended response question for tomorrow.

HAHAHAHAH yeah I'm well aware, I was trying to be optimistic

Do you guys think a 35/40 might slide into an A+ ? soo disappointed in myself but obviously moving on.

I checked last year's grade distributions for Exam 1, I may have read them wrong, but an A+ was a 34/40, I think it will be higher this year, I didn't think the exam was hard, I'm just an idiot

[cookiedream]

If i used radians instead of degrees for question 6 about tan. would I lose marks?? instead of pi/4 i did 45° and so on..

I don't think so. They didn't specifically mention that your answer needs to be in radians/degrees.

Do you guys think a 35/40 might slide into an A+ ? soo disappointed in myself but obviously moving on.

Last year, the cutoff was 34/40 unlike previously years where it was 37/40. Considering that most people found it relatively okay, it may be higher. But you never know and it's great that you're moving on! Exam 2 is worth more than Exam 1, so it's best to focus on your efforts in this exam and put Exam 1 behind you

[halo]

Did you get A or A+ for SACs?

A+. I think my SACs scaled to 100 or close because of a strong cohort (we had a few 50s and lots of 40+s)

[brittanylong26]

Will the solutions for it be up today??

[Syedali_]

Will the solutions for it be up today??

There are solutions one page 2 of this thread

[tega]

Did we need to label the end point on the graph (-3, -4)? Because it said to label axis intercepts and stationary points but didn't mention endpoints

[blehblop]

Why was the graph not accurate ? The tangent should have been drawn at x= 1 which was the x intercept of the graph.
Is VCAA allowed to do that? I can understand its not to scale but I'm sure the graph threw some people off.

[ngu0098]

Same, was it just me or did the thing not look exactly to scale when working stuff out 😭

it was not to scale, the gradient of the tangent was -1 at (1,0)

[Quantum44]

Not too difficult overall, I expect the A+ cutoff will be 35/40. The diagram on the last question threw me off so much and I wasted about 10 mins in confusion. Very relieved when I talked to my friend afterwards and we got the same coordinates for C. Also pissed at the modulus question, definitely lost a mark there 

[plsbegentle]

34/40 for exam 1, what exam score would i need in exam 2 for a 40+?

[JaeSunRyoo]

7b - shouldn't the largest value of c be -1, not -3?

[Insipiddrew]

For the last question,
How can the tangent BC be defined at x=1 if the derivative of the curve doesn't include x=1 based on the previous part? I think I lost marks only on that fact 

[Syndicate]

Hey guys...

I misinterpreted the second last question.... (finding the tangent). How many marks would I lose overall? (I think I'll get the method mark for the 1st question).

This affects the coordinates I got for C as well.