What was the most stupid thing you did in this exam?

[jane1234]

4 MC's.... 2 were ambiguous questions. Seriously, i think VCAA just try and screw us over with ambiguity to separate students rather than challenge us with hard questions. If it isn't filling a question with 90% Red herring and 10% tuna afish, there pulling out MC's where you can technically have 2 or 3 answers. FW's!!!

every multiple choice had a 'more correct' answer... i had no issues identifying it

I big to differ with 1 or 2 of them...but thats not the point. My bone to pick is why do they aim to try and trick or test students comprehension ability to such great extent at times, when it's a chemistry exam? They should be foccusing more on exploring our understanding of the subject than simply trying to see if we can read questions carefully, be able to eliminate useless crap and so forth. They are twisting the system too much..

+1000000000 to this.

[DisaFear]

2nd last question, when an something reacts with HCl
What does it give? COCl and NH2...............................

 -_-

[Water]

2nd last question, when an something reacts with HCl
What does it give? COCl and NH2...............................

 -_-

Thats a pretty big lol.

[DisaFear]

I still don't get the question, never seen one of those before

[thatricksta]

4 MC's.... 2 were ambiguous questions. Seriously, i think VCAA just try and screw us over with ambiguity to separate students rather than challenge us with hard questions. If it isn't filling a question with 90% Red herring and 10% tuna afish, there pulling out MC's where you can technically have 2 or 3 answers. FW's!!!

every multiple choice had a 'more correct' answer... i had no issues identifying it

I big to differ with 1 or 2 of them...but thats not the point. My bone to pick is why do they aim to try and trick or test students comprehension ability to such great extent at times, when it's a chemistry exam? They should be foccusing more on exploring our understanding of the subject than simply trying to see if we can read questions carefully, be able to eliminate useless crap and so forth. They are twisting the system too much..

+1000000000 to this.

The only thing I can say to combat this is that we are all under the same pressure... the system itself is a joke though =/ I wont argue for it, but I did feel that all M/C answers were understandable...

[miettargh]

forgot the + charge on CH3CH2...can't get more stupid than that ==

This ^

Plus, when I was balancing the TeO2, I knew that it was 2H+, but for some reason I then wrote 4e-. Stupid!

[bawse]

Everything.

[lilmamba17]

Lol i did the stupidest thing. I blanked out and said the ethene was oxidised to ethanoic acid....

[thatricksta]

Lol i did the stupidest thing. I blanked out and said the ethene was oxidised to ethanoic acid....

i wrote ethene and in my head wrote ethanol... went over it 3 times... didnt even notice

[lilmamba17]

wow that sucks, possibly one of the easiest questions and when i walked out i think about it and its like oh shit its ethanol!

[RobM8]

My bone to pick is why do they aim to try and trick or test students comprehension ability to such great extent at times, when it's a chemistry exam? They should be foccusing more on exploring our understanding of the subject than simply trying to see if we can read questions carefully, be able to eliminate useless crap and so forth. They are twisting the system too much..

Reading and being able to identify what information is valid to what you are trying to find/eliminating irrelevant information isn't a factor that is indicative of your ability in chemistry?

[ulbasour]

My bone to pick is why do they aim to try and trick or test students comprehension ability to such great extent at times, when it's a chemistry exam? They should be foccusing more on exploring our understanding of the subject than simply trying to see if we can read questions carefully, be able to eliminate useless crap and so forth. They are twisting the system too much..

Reading and being able to identify what information is valid to what you are trying to find/eliminating irrelevant information isn't a factor that is indicative of your ability in chemistry?

I just think alot of the time they emphasise the comprehension aspect compared to the key knowledge element, which they've got wrong

[ashyy5]

well no one can beat mine i bet! I READ THAT STUPID GRAPH WRONG!! instead of reading it as 100, 150 etc i read it as 100, 105...
and i got 102.8 ppm!! when it was like 128 ppm!!! =.= and i screwed up 4b..and shitloads of MCQ questions!

[tassie]

i screwed up q4 and did not divide by 2 -.-' and i read way too much into q20 and said a becuase aas goes from low to high rather than realising that it needs to emit energy anyway - well we'll all go down together

[fitzm11]

i think vcaa were cruel, and should have made short answer hard enough for the people who had put in the work to stand out