Maths Methods (Exam 2): Discussion, Questions & Potential Solutions

[integrationbyrecognition]

The multi choice was honestly a breeze up to about Q18, honestly you just needed good algebra skills to do well. I don't really get what people mean when they say it was unconventional questions. I would've thought maths was maths and it didn't have its own style o.0

Not everyone is as smart as you then, and it's not good to boast if you found it easy

[integrationbyrecognition]

What Raw Study Score for Methods am I looking at?

SACS: Averaged 74%
Exam 1: 25/40
Exam 2: 55/80

34 raw

[crawlingvines]

The multi choice was honestly a breeze up to about Q18, honestly you just needed good algebra skills to do well. I don't really get what people mean when they say it was unconventional questions. I would've thought maths was maths and it didn't have its own style o.0

Maybe tone down the pomposity a notch

[Ace2018_03]

Could someone please predict:

Exam 1: 36-37/40
Exam 2: 76/80

[integrationbyrecognition]

Could someone please predict:

Exam 1: 36-37/40
Exam 2: 76/80

~45-46 raw

[addictwithatextbook]

The multi choice was honestly a breeze up to about Q18, honestly you just needed good algebra skills to do well. I don't really get what people mean when they say it was unconventional questions. I would've thought maths was maths and it didn't have its own style o.0

They felt, and probably were, quite different to the ones in previous years as a whole. They twisted some questions up like transformations, etc. Of course it's maths, though, but they have a style of questions and today it changed relatively significantly.

[Lear]

Not everyone is as smart as you then, and it's not good to boast if you found it easy

Given this thread is about discussing the exam i'd say it's perfectly fine to describe one's opinion on the difficulty of the exam. In my opinion the multiple choice was indeed pretty standard up till 18. You have your typical domain and range questions, tangent line questions, period questions, transformations, find integral for an area questions etc. Probability was notably weak on MC. I'd highly advise any future students to pay attention to questions that tend to reoccur. A lot of MC questions are pretty predictable if you do the questions from the last few VCAA exams.
Short answer was great too. Good mix of easy, difficult and challenging questions.

[ihatemethods1234]

Hey intergrationbyrecognition could you please do me?

SAC average +/-74%  (average of cohort is around 55%) average-strong cohort

Exam 1 - 25/40
Exam 2 - 61-65/80

Thanksyou!!

[Guest1256]

orry to bother everyone and I hope exams are going well but was just wondering as to what these 3 secarios would amount too given this years methods exam/s.

Sacs 75% Rank 25/70 in a decent cohort in which sacs should scale up in all scenarios.

Exam 1 - 16/40 Exam 2 - 40/80

Exam 1 - 19/40 Exam 2 - 50/80

Exam 1 - 23/40 Exam 2 - 56/80

Thankyou very much

[lilhoo]

hey! would anyone please give me an study score prediction? thanks
SACs: 92% (top 10) in an average-strong cohort
Exam 1: 30-35/40
Exam 2: 63-70/80

Thank you so much!

[integrationbyrecognition]

Given this thread is about discussing the exam i'd say it's perfectly fine to describe one's opinion on the difficulty of the exam. In my opinion the multiple choice was indeed pretty standard up till 18. You have your typical domain and range questions, tangent line questions, period questions, transformations, find integral for an area questions etc. Probability was notably weak on MC. I'd highly advise any future students to pay attention to questions that tend to reoccur. A lot of MC questions are pretty predictable if you do the questions from the last few VCAA exams.
Short answer was great too. Good mix of easy, difficult and challenging questions.

Can you please stop quoting my post for no reason? Honestly I made a fair point when i said that True Dat shouldn't boast if he found it easy when there would be others (including myself) who found this exam harder than usual. Also when you said that alot of the mc questions are predictable from past papers, this exam was alot harder, and i've done quite a few vcaa exam 2's and the mcq's were a lot more demanding and different to the past years vcaa exam 2's.
I'm not trying to attack you, but please stop unnecessarily quoting my post and trying to force your opinion.
Thanks

[Lear]

Yep, perhaps thread should be renamed to study score prediction methods haha. These ain't stopping.

[lilhoo]

Yep, perhaps thread should be renamed to study score prediction methods haha. These ain't stopping.

sorry about that hahaha i guess everyone is jusy anxious about their scores

[vox nihili]

Second chance:

This is a clear instruction not to post study score predictions in this thread. This thread is for exam discussion, not study score prediction. The cryptically titled "study score prediction thread" will serve that purpose.

You've been given the instruction twice now. Do not post study score predictions here.

[petersenge]

Mod edit: removed a most impolite statement in which another member was likened to an implement used for the removal of faeces