Exam 2 thoughts.

[Matt89]

How did everyone cope with the heat? We were dying in our exam room - facing north in the most exposed building of the school.    I was't surprised to see a heap of wet shirts afterwards.

As soon as i began writing, i wet my page with the sweat on my hand. It was only the multi choice section though, so it didnt matter.

But i sweat a lot (more than the average person) so i wore a soccer top which draws the sweat away from my body (at least, thats what the tag says it does)

[Daniel15]

I think if you can show that a CAS calculator could cope with it much better than a non-CAS calculator, then you're in business.

But considering that it only took 15 seconds for a TI-83 to solve() it, then I don't think the CAS can beat that by a great margin.

CAS pwns. QED

IMHO, the CAS is a far more capable calculator, function wise. Personally though I find it more sluggish, particularly when graphing since I don't know how to reduce the resolution the way I did on my 84+. Gotta love the algebra though - that mulitiple choice Q with the vdv/dx - CAS saved my ass  

Yeah, I love my TI-89 Titanium
For the resolution thing, go to Tools (F1) → Format and turn off Discontinuity Detection. Then go to Window (Diamond+F2) and change the xres

[Rosetta_Stoned]

I did horribly bad. That is all.

Wow another metalhead doing specialist.

Didn't think I'd ever see it!

Haha I wore my children of bodom tshirt to the spesh exam today.
Represent, yo'.


I thought the exam today had some really easy questions, but some really hard questions. It will definately spread everyone out, unlike the retard of a maths paper that was methods last year *shakes fist*

[ltee]

it was my eighteenth birthday
AND SPESH RUINED IT !

i hated it
i guessed more than half my multiples

[asa.hoshi]

i guessed more than half my multiples

i guessed 75%

[melodrama]

haha my spesh class wore their spesh memorabilia tees.

damn i think i would have lost about 5-10 marks already. goodbye 45.

[Collin Li]

haha my spesh class wore their spesh memorabilia tees.

damn i think i would have lost about 5-10 marks already. goodbye 45.

You were aiming for 45 raw? Wow, that's a high aim. I was doing Specialist last year with an aim of 40, and people were still saying "oh that's really hard to get."

If you're losing about 5-10 marks overall, that sounds pretty good.

[Matt89]

You were aiming for 45 raw? Wow, that's a high aim. I was doing Specialist last year with an aim of 40, and people were still saying "oh that's really hard to get."

If i got more than 30 RAW, i'd be over the moon

[kido_1]

haha my spesh class wore their spesh memorabilia tees.

damn i think i would have lost about 5-10 marks already. goodbye 45.

You were aiming for 45 raw? Wow, that's a high aim. I was doing Specialist last year with an aim of 40, and people were still saying "oh that's really hard to get."

If you're losing about 5-10 marks overall, that sounds pretty good.

If you were not going to get 40 last year then who was?

You never know, what you are going to get till that day in less than a month's time(29 days and about 17 hrs).

[melodrama]

tbh i was aiming for a 40, but a 45 would have been so nice. it's rather out of reach tho.

[vce_2007]

it was a hard exam BUT i think i did alright in it

hopefully 38+...

[Daniel15]

You were aiming for 45 raw? Wow, that's a high aim. I was doing Specialist last year with an aim of 40, and people were still saying "oh that's really hard to get."

If i got more than 30 RAW, i'd be over the moon

Me too
 :shock:

[salt'n'sugar]

tbh i was aiming for a 40, but a 45 would have been so nice. it's rather out of reach tho.

yeh spirited i was aiming for 50 i have not lost a mark in sacs and probs 2 in exam 1 but exam 2 just made 2 real stupid mistakes. hope i get some out of the 4 i think they were worth each. anyways how have you gone in your sacs so i can get an idea of my ss like you say 45 is out of reach, has it just been the exams you did not do as expected or in sacs too? well anyway i'm hoping for anything 42+ THAT will be a great help

btw which one are you in that avatar?

salt'n'sugar

EDIT::

solutions to spec 2 exam:

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[Markos]

I did horribly bad. That is all.

Wow another metalhead doing specialist.

Didn't think I'd ever see it!

Haha I wore my children of bodom tshirt to the spesh exam today.
Represent, yo'.

Damn straight. Just thinking about it now, I'm the only metalhead in my spesh class

[Rosetta_Stoned]

I did horribly bad. That is all.

Wow another metalhead doing specialist.

Didn't think I'd ever see it!

Haha I wore my children of bodom tshirt to the spesh exam today.
Represent, yo'.

Damn straight. Just thinking about it now, I'm the only metalhead in my spesh class

Yeah same here, and there probably aren't that many more in the state.
Generally metalheads and higher level academia don't seem to match