Marks correlation to Study Score

[m@tty]

Damn. Again, 4 SS>48 is so pro. You must be so careful.

In Further 100/100 for SAC's and 99/100 for exams for 49  :tickedoff:
That sucks. Are you fairly sure you only lost 1 mark?

[kyzoo]

Stonecold - it's possible to do well despite having a shit teacher. I had a really bad one for Methods. The teacher hated me, probably because I asked her too many questions and she felt I was showing her up or something. She couldn't answer even 75% of my questions. She got all defensive and kind of banned me from asking her stuff. I thought she was an unusual teacher for a school like mine.

Kyzoo - I did lose exactly the same as you to get 49. What were your SAC marks? I didn't think this year's exam paper was as easy as 2006. I did think it was easier than 2008 though. 2007 was of a similar standard to 2008 I also thought.

Lol I spent most of classtime making notes from the textbook and doing textbook questions, rather than listening to the teacher. The teacher I had was awesome, but she so busy; there was always a line of 4 people waiting to ask her questions.

And SAC marks...I'll ask my classmates if they got Statement of Results then I can work out from that.

[Ilovemathsmeth]

I'm fairly sure (based on itute solutions) that I dropped only 1 mark for Further. It sucks because I missed 99.80 by 0.4 points. I'd have got 1.3 points if I'd got 50 in Further

[stonecold]

Damn. Again, 4 SS>48 is so pro. You must be so careful.

In Further 100/100 for SAC's and 99/100 for exams for 49  :tickedoff:
That sucks. Are you fairly sure you only lost 1 mark?

Further was dog in 2009.  It was literally 1 mark off your exam meant 1 mark off your study score at the top end. In 2008 you could lose 3 marks and still get 50.

[m@tty]

Damn. Again, 4 SS>48 is so pro. You must be so careful.

In Further 100/100 for SAC's and 99/100 for exams for 49  :tickedoff:
That sucks. Are you fairly sure you only lost 1 mark?

Further was dog in 2009.  It was literally 1 mark off your exam meant 1 mark off your study score at the top end. In 2008 you could lose 3 marks and still get 50.

Wow, so you think you lost 2 marks...98%? Were the exams that easy?
Are you sure about 3 marks for 50 last yearthe year before last? Ilovemathsmeth lost 2.5 in Methods and missed 50

[kyzoo]

And someone who got 49 at my school last year the year before last year lost 2 marks.

http://vcenotes.com/forum/index.php/topic,7873.msg98101.html#msg98101

[m@tty]

And someone who got 49 at my school last year the year before last year lost 2 marks.

http://vcenotes.com/forum/index.php/topic,7873.msg98101.html#msg98101

Wow what a pro.... 50 in Lit and English.
He predicted his exam scores and expected 48. Was the 2008 exam considered fairly easy by him and others at your school?

[brightsky]

Melbourne Grammar's renowned to be pro at English. MGS had close to 15 study scores of 50 this year just in English, and 2 (I think) in ESL and another 2 or 3 in Lit.

[stonecold]

Damn. Again, 4 SS>48 is so pro. You must be so careful.

In Further 100/100 for SAC's and 99/100 for exams for 49  :tickedoff:
That sucks. Are you fairly sure you only lost 1 mark?

Further was dog in 2009.  It was literally 1 mark off your exam meant 1 mark off your study score at the top end. In 2008 you could lose 3 marks and still get 50.

Wow, so you think you lost 2 marks...98%? Were the exams that easy?
Are you sure about 3 marks for 50 last yearthe year before last? Ilovemathsmeth lost 2.5 in Methods and missed 50

Yepp.  2 marks according to iTute solutions.  The difficulty of the exam ends up coming down to luck.  You do the right modules, and you are laughing, pick a wrong one and it can be pretty tough.  For example in 2009, matrices was ridiculously easy.  I also heard that business maths wasn't hard.  Number patterns on the other hand was quite difficult.  Graphs and Relations and networks were also very challenging.  Can't really comment on Trig and Geo.

But yeah, Further is really unfair because of the whole module thing.  They really need to do something about it.

[kyzoo]

Modules?? Like detailed study for Physics? I thought all Maths were the same =/

[stonecold]

Yeah like detailed study for Physics.

In Further, you have Core which is Statistics, and then you choose three from Number Patterns, Geo & Trig, Graphs and Relations, Networks, Business maths and Matrices.

[kenhung123]

Which module did you lose marks on?

[stonecold]

Which module did you lose marks on?

On Exam 1 I lost a mark on number patterns, and on Exam 2 I lost a mark on core. (it was a question where you needed to give a worded answer)

At the end of the day it was my own fault.  I didn't screw up the maths, I just didn't read the questions properly.  This is the most important thing in any subject really, but especially Further.  RTFQ!  That is my motto in 2010.

Edit:  And according to some person in this thread they lost 3 marks on Further exams in 08 and still got a 50.
http://community.boredofstudies.org/414/further-mathematics/206128/50-further-mathematics.html

BoS sUcKs!

Edit 2:  Also firmly believe that VCAA screwed up with one of the multi choice questions on Exam 1 in 09, meaning they awarded everyone a mark for that question, which really doesn't help your cause when you are aiming for 50.

[spizaa #5]

ENGLISH:
SACS: 100/100
exam: 28.5/30
text response: 9/10
context: 10/10
lang analysis: 9.5/10
study score = 50

LEGAL:
SACS: 99/100
exam: 56.5/60
study score = 45
now this pisses me off. dropping 3.5 marks and only getting 45

[stonecold]

^^^

that is bullshit!