General Thoughts: Mathematics Extension 2 (2 Viewers)

[thewog2004]

Re: What did you think?

Dat test screwed me over hard...i lost about 40 marks...but yeh i agree that time was an issue not the hardness of the questions

 

[cccclaire]

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I thought it was difficult.

The thing I think that was unusual was that generally each question you do it gets more and more difficult. But I would say a lot (bar like 7 and 8) were of similar difficulty (which would be about question 5 difficulty).

Also there was loads of 3u stuff (as someone said before me).

That said, when I glanced at the paper after I was sort of a bit like "oh I did get that out, yeh i got that one" so I think i did ok I guess.

 

[thewog2004]

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all i wrote was that b was the terminal velocity :S

 

[ronnknee]

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Q6 and 8 were hard as. Btw does anyone know what "the physical significance of b" really was?

Air/water resistance

 

[bazza159]

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yeh it was a really tough paper, even the integration in question one (though very doable) was harder than usual. and the mechanics in q7 was a lot of work for the marks..

 

[Kujah]

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Hard.

 

[gcchick]

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It was terrible. Questions 1 and 2 were great, except some of those inetgrals were really difficult.

I attempted parts of Questions 3 to 5 and left the last 3 blank.

I left 30 mins early, I just couldn't do anymore. My brain was going crazy.

 

[Js^-1]

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I wrote the force the current provided... :S

 

[Sandchairs]

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Q6 and 8 were hard as. Btw does anyone know what "the physical significance of b" really was?

I think it was the velocity of the current that the boat was in. Thats what i put anyway...

 

[hon1hon2hon3]

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For danfloyd11 vbmenu_register("postmenu_3857612", true); , what i wrote b is water resistance . . . well cant think of anything else other then that.

I calculated that i will get in the range of 71/120 - 91/120 LOL , pretty big difference there, its the highest and lowest that i expected.

Hope thats a E4 man ~~~~ Question 6 - 8 owned me bad, i reckon i will get like 10/45 to 15/45 . . . just suck

 

[cccclaire]

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I wrote the force the current provided... :S

thats what i wrote!

I don't understand anything about motion though, and that was a total guess.

 

[midifile]

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lol.
I put limiting speed of the boat =S

It was only 1 mark though

 

[zonda1]

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did anyone have trouble with 8 b) i) ?

i couldnt remove a delta from the answer

 

[Js^-1]

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Didn't even attempt it...

 

[cccclaire]

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did anyone have trouble with 8 b) i) ?

i couldnt remove a delta from the answer

lol. I read the question twice, and still had no idea what it was talking about and left it out.

So I went back and checked over my paper (which was worthwhile seeing as I think I got about 12 marks from checking over).

 

[danfloyd11]

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thanx for all the replies lol everyone put different answers
at least i wasnt the only one to put velocity of the water

 

[Sandchairs]

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assuming maximum stingyness with the marker ill just pass. aka 61
assuming maximum generousity with the marker ill do considerably better, 80.
plz be happy marker...

 

[bazza159]

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what were the ratios for the probability q?

 

[cccclaire]

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what were the ratios for the probability q?

I guessed 1:1:1, I didn't actually do the question, just wrote something down in hope that it might be right.

 

[I-Love-Jesus]

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I said it was the velocity of the current. Don't really have any idea though

The exam was quite strange. I think it will be my worst mark in a long time. But, as cruel as this may seem, it's comforting to hear that others found it difficult as well. There were parts of every single question that I couldn't do.

Judging by the perceived difficulty of the exam, and by other people's reactions, would anyone care to take a stab at what they think the raw band E3/E4 cut-off will be? I'm thinking maybe 77-ish?