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    HSC Exam Thoughts 2016. Drastically reduced participation?

    After BOSTES gets the previous years exams uploaded, I usually like to take a look at the "Exam Thoughts" forums to get a feeling for how the students found the exams. For some reason the participation in the 2016 exam thoughts forums seems to be drastically reduced compared with previous...
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    MC7: Controversial answer (A)

    I finally got a chance to look through the paper today. You know it wouldn't be a Physics HSC exam if there wasn't at least one controversial MC question. :rolleyes: I know that lots of people have posted their answers already and the consensus for MC7 is "B", but technically the correct answer...
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    Question about 2U maths raw versus aligned marks.

    I was looking at my nephew's (2012) HSC results today and was a bit surprised how low was his 2U math score. He got all Bands 4 and 5 in his other subjects but only scored a pretty lowly 60 in 2u maths. I was just wondering, roughly what sort of raw exam mark would have netted an aligned mark of...
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    What exactly was Q27 (a) (ii) asking for?

    In the annuity question of Q27 (a) part (ii), what exactly was it asking for? Was it asking for the amount per year needed to be invested in the annuity ($48395.15) or was it asking for the amount of an equivalent lump sum investment having the same value after 7 years ($289318.37) ??? I...
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