STAV 2010

[andy456]

Has anyone done this exam yet?? Did you think it was hard??
What did you get??

[matty.k]

i thought multiple choice was quite easy, the short answer questions weren't to hard either although all the draw the structural formula, what must be drawn etc screwed me over. My school actually purchased that exam and made us sit it like the real thing. I think i did pretty good it wasn't too hard and it wasn't too easy. Id say Id get 6X-7X our of 83 + or - 2 which roughly equates to 75-80%.  

[physics]

STAV i got about 70-80% as well but INSIGHT PAPAER IS SOO HARD T_t

[andy456]

Yeah multiple choice were easy as... I only got a couple wrong. The short answer werea little tricky. So many stoich calculations. I was doing the exam and went through a mentalblank but 10 mins before the end I had a brain 'wave' and it all came to me. I ended up getting 70% I made quiet a few stupid mistakes. Hopefully I can up that score in the next 2 weeks

[happyhappyland]

Neap was harder. I reckon STAV was alright apart from the NMR bit of it... a bit too hard for VCE level?

[andy456]

Neap was harder. I reckon STAV was alright apart from the NMR bit of it... a bit too hard for VCE level?

NMR- do you mean the multi choice question or the short answer question??
There wasn't much on spectroscopy which was good....

[matty.k]

compared to the 09 vcaa paper stav was nothing.

[Greggler]

Did it at school  as a trial exam on tuesday and got 90% for it. Lost all my marks on stupid things like states and sig figs ><.

Multi choice were quite easy though, there was some tricky organic stuff towards the end, but nothing too hard i thought.
My hardest exam so far has been CSE 2010.

It had stuff on it i cant find in a textbook or anything and it had a a whole SA question on NMR/Mass spec. and the stoich involved in some of the MC were intense, like involved bits where you had to reduce Fe twice to Fe3+ and weird as stuff i havent encountered before.

[iffets12345]

Is 80% for a chem exam good? I keep making silly mistakes costing me 10-13 marks per paper... getting worried.

[Martoman]

Depends what you are aiming for and the difficulty of the paper. If its hard, then wow you did quite well. If it were easy.... eh... not so much. Then again, that is great if you are not aiming for high A or A+ territory.

[happyhappyland]

Neap was harder. I reckon STAV was alright apart from the NMR bit of it... a bit too hard for VCE level?

NMR- do you mean the multi choice question or the short answer question??
There wasn't much on spectroscopy which was good....

Something about multiplets

[iffets12345]

Neap was harder. I reckon STAV was alright apart from the NMR bit of it... a bit too hard for VCE level?

NMR- do you mean the multi choice question or the short answer question??
There wasn't much on spectroscopy which was good....

Something about multiplets

I saw that question..care to refresh my memory of what it meant?

Depends what you are aiming for and the difficulty of the paper. If its hard, then wow you did quite well. If it were easy.... eh... not so much. Then again, that is great if you are not aiming for high A or A+ territory.

Hmm...I was kind of aiming for high A-A+ before...but now.... I think I can do it, but I'm just careless which is the frustrating bit.

[happyhappyland]

Question 2. If a multiplet is seen in H NMR what is the ester...

Sorry cant remember what the ester was but the previous question made u draw semistructural of ALL esters

[iffets12345]

I think I chose the one which would give an environment with more than like, 5 peaks.

[Greggler]

multiplets thankfully are apparently not part of vcaa course.

our teacher emailed around and emailed vcaa and they replied that only simple compounds will be used for NMR analysis.

However for those that were wandering a multiplet is something like >5 splits in the peak.