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What degree did you apply for and what are you interested in?

step 1: write just answers to 1 sig fig step 2: do not elaborate further step 3: profit

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who has physics as their last exam?

Idk if its concerning or comforting that like 80% is a B6 and 59% is a mid B5

I agree with ac induction motors but not the rest. Huygens and newton will come up as like how scientific models are challenged or affirmed or whatever, and big bang and stars is memorized

I reckon life cycle of a star or origins of all elements or debate between light vs particle will be one of the 7-9 markers

Yeah, but even one of the Normahurst multis had the wrong answer too Galaxies further away are more dense, but thats more expansion of universe which follows on from Big Bang I guess

In the PEM trial the first short answer question was a (nearly) impossible projectile motion question. It was 3 marks but took me 2 pages of working lol.

I thought that question was pretty straight forward since they gave you the length and extract subroutines already

All the content questions are pretty straight forward in any software paper, and can definitely be bs'ed. The only places you would lose mark in short answer would be stuff like weird algorithms like in the 2014 one with the 2d array of records or diagrams in my opinion, which can cost you 4 or...

for me, I find it pretty reasonable to get consistently 19+/20 in the multi choice, 56+/60 in short, and 18+/20 in option however, I've done most of the past HSC software papers and the 2014 one was pretty much the hardest one, so you can give yourself a bit of slack for that.

My prelim IPT notes so far. I made about half of them a while ago and then just been updating them the past few weeks (so the formatting is not entirely consistent). Some sections incomplete (no notes for displaying (8.2.7) and nearly complete notes for 8.3). If anyone has notes for displaying...