My uncle is a marker for the HSC, and he told me that if you make errors in the final steps of your working sometimes it can actually comprimise marks you may have gained at the start. The marking guidelines don't actually show that but apparently its true for some questions so you have to be...
Thats just silly, by the same token I will be doing English in future cause I speake the language, be doing physics cause I throw balls to my dog, be doing chemistry because I deal with such chemicals as salt, petrol, and water on a daily basis.
Normally there's something on growth and decay as well.
And the projectile motion one was really just random algebra and didn't require the use of any work on projectile motion.
I thought it was quite tricky.
Q4(ii), did anybody else get -a2 ? The way they worded the question I was expecting to be able to find a number, not in terms of a.
edit: dam, just realised that it should be 0.
That's true, hope they aren't looking for that level of specificity.
The "either" was not capitolised. I'm sure they would have said "but not both" if they were after XOR.
In the question it says: "..alows the user to draw the basic outline of the circuit using a mouse.".
If there was an option that said only Teachers I might consider it but asking the parents is just ridiculous. They don't use the software, nor know how to teach. Most parents send their kids to school and have no involvement other than to check their semesterly reports.