How was the exam? (3 Viewers)

[haboozin]

how do you think this exam compared to other years?

 

[Captain pi]

Don't you mean '03? Wasn't 1993 the last paper in which the top students (Allison Elizabeth Parker and Anthony Henderson) got 120/120?

 

[Sepulchres]

That was an alright exam actually. Left out about 15 marks all up =\ Goddamn time restraints.

 

[robbo_145]

na he means 93 (average mark 47ish).
ran out of time hopefully scrape >100/120 but i dunno. not so much hard just time-consuming ie. i didnt see the elegant ways to do things

 

[SmileyCam]

I finished Q1-5 and 7, and basically didn't attempt 6/8, may have scraped a few for the induction question, so about 90/120

 

[tim_dawborn]

thort it was quite a long paper - questions 1 - 4 were very easy - 6 wasnt the best mechanics in the world --> hopefuuly a decent mark though

 

[stef.]

that was a pretty fair exam...
as robo_145 said..its not hard, just time consuming

 

[OmegaSTealth]

Got through the first 4 questions fairly easily, but it looked like they left the blank page before Q5 as an easy/difficult divider. It was a fairly good exam, but I curse those time constraints.

 

[renya]

Most of our grade spent the first half of the exam going oh yeh, this aint bad, until we realised there was no way we'd finish

 

[Jeeeb]

I agree up untill 4 it was a nice easy paper , then it became drastically harder .
I got Q1-4 out of the way fine, should have done well on Q5 and Q6 will get 0/15 for Q7 and probably 2/15-4/15 for Q8

 

[KFunk]

'nough said.

 

[Estel]

heh
I couldn't do the conics q. :'(

 

[Dumsum]

First 4 questions were good, except for 4 c) ii), where it asked you to show the eccentricity of the ellipse was at least 1/sqrt2. wtf is with that?

Question 5: triangle stuff was easy, the combinations thing wasn't too bad but I'm 99% certain I will only get 1/2 for the second part, couldn't do the first part of the integration but did the second, volume was easy.

Question 6: hardest induction I've ever done but I got through it all, complex number stuff I did ok in, can't believe I couldn't get the first part though ("maths block" I like to call it )

Question 7: circle question was insane as usual, but I got parts i) and iv) out, part b) was the best question in the paper! I had so much fun working through that, got it all out

Question 8: I should have learned how to show that inequality... but alas *sigh* I did parts iii) and iv) though. That last conic was a bitch, I don't think I got any marks for it.


Overall: I think the paper was very solid. Not exceedingly difficult, but not easy either--it was at a good standard for my ability personally. I'm happy

 

[Antwan23q]

i did 1-5 with no problems but after that, i got fucked around, gettin only like 5-10 in the whole thing

 

[UAIMAN]

hopefully 90. come on people, it says 50 people browsing and thers only like 15 replies. if you DONT post, what makes you think other people will?? POST

 

[haboozin]

Questions i couldn't do:


4c ii.

show e of elips is at least 1/sqrt(2)

5b ii
in how many different ways could the outcome of this competition be recorded

i didnt even understand this.

c, i
(no idea - never seen it represented like this before)

6a. ii
i have an idea but i think my proof was dodgy as

7a iii
s/u < r/p

no idea

iv
(i said something but i think its wrong

8 a, i - couldnt prove its a min

ii - couldnt do this well but i got pretty far

b: ii - no idea

iv - no idea


I think about 90-100/120 if i didnt fuck up the rest.

 

[minushuman]

I pretty much killed that exam. Quite happy. Compared to previous years I think it was a piece of piss. Answered 1 - 7 no problems, question 8 I did just on 10marks worth, so i'm looking at about 100 - 110. Probably going to win the HSC.

 

[justchillin]

Hah sure mate... question 1-4 were fine. I found question 6 a piece of cake but got stuck on the parallel line proof for question 7 (i know its easy now lol). Question 8 was very soft i thought... esp part b, that was just some funky sine rule application...but last question i had no idea. I rekon >100...at most 113 if i didnt make sillies...
Edit: by last question i mean q8 part (b) section (iv)...

 

[blackfriday]

you freakazoid! i'll be happy to get away with 80-85 in that one.

 

[KeypadSDM]

Ok, admittedly I've done 2 years of uni maths now, but I can honestly say 8a) is the easiest 8a) I've seen (in a while at least).

Moreover, I'm almost 100% sure that 6i) was in a past paper I've done.

Looks long, but I'd be expecting really good students to at least get 115+