I know the feeling. I haven't felt confident with any of my external exams but I've finished everything already so there's nothing I can do. Yes, the silly mistakes and misreading the question have absolutely destroyed the marks I could have potentially achieved but you never really know...
I wrote in HB pencil for 3 of my exams and didn't get the chance to trace over it in pen as well as my school always stressing that diagrams must be in pencil. Would the scanner be able to detect it or would it not show up at all?
I'm worried that I would get 0 for all those questions.
I wasn't expecting those extended responses at all. From the specimen paper, it looked like it would be something along the lines of influences, processes or strategies for a certain topic area. Both questions were horrible for me and I ended up writing very little on the marketing one :(.
For 16.c)ii)
Rearrange 4c=1+4r^2
c=1/4+r^2
r^2=c-1/4
r=(c-1/4)^2
If you take the square root of 1/4, you get 1/2
Since r>0 then c>1/2
I made silly mistakes everywhere else in the paper though and i didn't get 16.c)i)
Sleep properly, read through your notes before you sleep, etc. I think getting your dot point summaries done should be your first priority.
And the best advice I ever got was to have a functioning printer. It helped out HEAPS.
2 subjects down, three to go.
Completely screwed up English and bio so hopefully I can make up for it next week :S.
I'd hate to know I did badly in every HSC examination.
Completely. I think they made it 5 because they needed it to add up to 100 and had to place a few extra marks somewhere. Throughout the question I just kept asking myself...why is it 5 marks? Is there some really big thing I'm missing?