how did you go? (2 Viewers)

[100percent]

i found the test harder than expected. nothing like 2004!
i think i got 62/120 give or take 5 marks. how about you?

 

[renya]

I'm not sure how i went

I didnt finish, and i think no one else in my school did either. the questions were doable, but we needed more time

 

[PiGMAN]

probably 90/120

 

[Jeeeb]

Around 85/120 + lose 5-7 marks for mistakes.

 

[Nissanist]

potentially, i can get a max of 66 marks for questions attempted, minus 5ish marks for silly mistakes.

 

[Benmc]

i totally screwd that up. it waz hard as. i prolly got like 30/120

 

[justchillin]

It was indeed a hard test...though question 8 was really soft... i rekon i got about 103-110 give or take stupid mistakes

 

[100percent]

you guys are inhuman! 85+ is crazy talk!

 

[KFunk]

Circle geometry and conics pwned me. I just can't do conics. In any case I'll probably get 95-104 (about 14 of the marks definately lost are from conics and circle geo... my arch nemesis topics. Oh well, luck didn't swing my way - c'est la vie).

 

[Stefano]

I estimate I'll get 60-70/120. I thought it was a really difficult exam. It was made up of all my weakness areas

 

[who_loves_maths]

lol, justchillin only 110 ? i'm disappointed

just j.k

but in all honesty, that exam was harder than (i) expected... not in terms of "undoable" questions, but in terms of the length of the paper. there were so many "continues" at the end of most of the pages, and every question was so prolific.

*sigh*and i didn't managed my time well at all - managed to finish via skipping some lines of working out, but only barely... i expect i'll lose many marks for condensed solutions with little working

 

[ishq]

Uhhh...difficult paper!

Circle Geometry was a BITCH.
CONICS WAS A BIGGER BITCH.

Did anyone else think it was toooo long? I mean - compared to 2004, 2003 it was way longer and way harder.

Or maybe its just me.

Glad its over.

 

[香港!]

Stupid Graphs!! I take too long on them, no time at the end, didn't even attempt Q8 lol #_#

 

[Estel]

Uhhh...difficult paper!

Circle Geometry was a BITCH.
CONICS WAS A BIGGER BITCH.

Did anyone else think it was toooo long? I mean - compared to 2004, 2003 it was way longer and way harder.

Or maybe its just me.

Glad its over.

I agree it was harder than 03 and 04.
But circle geometry... that is the nicest question you will ever get for that topic.

wholovesmaths, did you get all the conics out?

 

[justchillin]

I know for sure though that I didnt top the state...not that i was going to anyway...I bet someone out there got 110+...in any case I just added up my marks then and I think pretty accurately i got 107..

 

[Dumsum]

There were like 3 more pages of questions than last year's exam. And for a heap of years before that

 

[who_loves_maths]

Originally Posted by justchillin
I know for sure though that I didnt top the state...not that i was going to anyway...I bet someone out there got 110+...in any case I just added up my marks then and I think pretty accurately i got 107..

well, i don't think a mere 110+ would top the state this year. there are heaps of ppl out there who are excellent at maths who do not post on BOS. i think that probably a score of 115+ is the minimum for topping the state this year (provided the person who got that score also did very well in his/her internal assessment rankings).
107 might just scrape a top ten finish... maybe just barely.

Originally Posted by Estel
wholovesmaths, did you get all the conics out?

the first conics question: yes.
the last conics question: yes, but i had to rush the working out for last two parts, will probably lose 2 marks for it.

 

[ngai]

seems pretty hard compared to other past papers
certainly harder than last yrs
but also more interesting than last yrs...most questions have pretty elegant solutions

 

[who_loves_maths]

^ when you say "hard", you mean "long" or "lengthy" right?
because in terms of the level of difficulty of each individual question, they were all relatively straightforward, compared to some seemingly "spontaneous" questions of past HSCs.
in fact, for this exam, one may even say that Question 8 was ... uncharacteristically easy. ask justchillin, he'll tell you

Edit: when i say "lengthy", i mean of course that the pure amount of working out required to be pumped from the hands of a student in this exam obliges the overall difficulty of the exam.

 

[wah]

I believe 110+ is required to gain top 10 this year.