Sect 1 was about as hard as expected, sect 2 was a bit harder than expected, but not that hard (though I wish I had a dictionary for 1-2 of the questions which is like a million percentile points) and sect 3 was easier than expected, but not that easy.
Overall, I don't know what to think. After...
I think daylight savings screws it up a little bit.
Actually, I might see if I can make it into a widget... but I suppose the HSC is more important. :P
Something I put together for the fun of it:
http://girraext2.com/hscclock.html
It's a countdown until the first English exam in the HSC this year. If it's popular enough, I might get a proper domain for it.
I'll admit most of it was straightforward, but some of the questions were just weird: my chem teacher who'll be marking it next week said she had no idea what the wanted in the ethanol one.
I've heard (from my teacher) that in recent years, the BOS have tried to have some sort of consistency across the three big sciences in terms of what is asked in exams, moreso the verbs used. (Evaluate, assess, describe etc.)
Apparently there were a lot of 'how' questions in the biology test. I...