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Re: Exam 1: For those of you who dropped marks on the CONE OF DEATH...
« Reply #15 on: November 08, 2010, 08:06:52 pm »
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LOL we should still be angry!

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Re: Exam 1: For those of you who dropped marks on the CONE OF DEATH...
« Reply #16 on: November 08, 2010, 08:07:28 pm »
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i reckon maybe one less than last year

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Re: Exam 1: For those of you who dropped marks on the CONE OF DEATH...
« Reply #17 on: November 08, 2010, 08:07:32 pm »
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bad news for those of us that got it right.   :'(

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Re: Exam 1: For those of you who dropped marks on the CONE OF DEATH...
« Reply #18 on: November 08, 2010, 08:10:19 pm »
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negative karma him

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Re: Exam 1: For those of you who dropped marks on the CONE OF DEATH...
« Reply #19 on: November 08, 2010, 08:16:43 pm »
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aw come on. surely if you'd got the question right you'd feel a little peeved. i'm only human.
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Re: Exam 1: For those of you who dropped marks on the CONE OF DEATH...
« Reply #20 on: November 08, 2010, 08:20:27 pm »
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aw come on. surely if you'd got the question right you'd feel a little peeved. i'm only human.

tell me if you lost 12.5% of the paper because you could do one little section, you wouldn't be peeved.
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Re: Exam 1: For those of you who dropped marks on the CONE OF DEATH...
« Reply #21 on: November 08, 2010, 08:21:33 pm »
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YES!!
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« Reply #22 on: November 08, 2010, 08:23:49 pm »
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I would be, I'd be pissed as hell. But it's all about different perspectives. I'm sorry if I sound inconsiderate, but honestly, it's just how i feel.
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Re: Exam 1: For those of you who dropped marks on the CONE OF DEATH...
« Reply #23 on: November 08, 2010, 08:27:02 pm »
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Wow, this is the nicest thing VCAA has ever done :)
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« Reply #24 on: November 08, 2010, 08:32:28 pm »
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« Reply #25 on: November 08, 2010, 09:26:56 pm »
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thank god man...iloveyou
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Re: Exam 1: For those of you who dropped marks on the CONE OF DEATH...
« Reply #26 on: November 08, 2010, 09:37:29 pm »
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umm so waht if part a is wrong and i used the wrong answer (5/2r) for the working out for part b and c?
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Re: Exam 1: For those of you who dropped marks on the CONE OF DEATH...
« Reply #27 on: November 08, 2010, 09:39:53 pm »
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Nice work VCAA - good that you are being nice!

Although if you used h = 5/2 r, you'd get a positive quadratic in part b, so your derivative = 0 => r = 0 would be a local minimum actually

But all the same, glad that VCAA paid consequentials
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Re: Exam 1: For those of you who dropped marks on the CONE OF DEATH...
« Reply #28 on: November 08, 2010, 09:41:36 pm »
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Nice work VCAA - good that you are being nice!

Although if you used h = 5/2 r, you'd get a positive quadratic in part b, so your derivative = 0 => r = 0 would be a local minimum actually

But all the same, glad that VCAA paid consequentials

lol, yeah this is what I did.

But then I said the max value of r would occur at the endpoint, just before r=2 lol...
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Re: Exam 1: For those of you who dropped marks on the CONE OF DEATH...
« Reply #29 on: November 08, 2010, 10:52:07 pm »
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Meh, this news will adversely affect my raw score, but either way I got 40/40. If my mark went down I'd have a right to be disappointed, but being upset because a large amount of people got extra marks would make me me feel animal, like the VCAA system has corrupted me.

And I can understand if I struggled with that one question, I'd feel cheated as well if I lost 5 marks for 1 mistake. Fair decision in the end.
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