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this is in the bos 2020 trial isnt it. i actually had no idea how to approach this but the answer made so much sense i really like it.
Yeah. It’s a nice result.
 

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what do u reckon a 90 raw mark would get this year in terms of aligned?
HSC raw marks says about 95, but depending on the difficulty of the exam (which most of the BoS threads have agreed to it being difficult), it could be more.
 

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Have a look at this
So wordy, my thought really I think this is a good paper but yes there seems to be a heavy concentration of the last two chapters. Not surprised. My plan of thought is that Sydney Morning Herald really is a bunch of crazies complaining.
 

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Have a look at this
So wordy, my thought really I think this is a good paper but yes there seems to be a heavy concentration of the last two chapters. Not surprised. My plan of thought is that Sydney Morning Herald really is a bunch of crazies complaining.
I'm pretty sure that if the aggregate of raw marks are significantly lower this year than in previous years, then they will accommodate by potentially lowering benchmarks for different bands. I understand some people's frustration, but honestly, everyone seems to be on the same playing field. I think these type of articles are usually released every year if I'm not sure, where there's students or teachers complaining about the difficulty of the exam.
 

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tbh idk why people r complaining, it was fairly reasonable imo I mean even if it was hard everyone's doing the same exam so it'd be compensated by scaling. the point of an exam is to differentiate students anyways
 

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tbh idk why people r complaining, it was fairly reasonable imo I mean even if it was hard everyone's doing the same exam so it'd be compensated by scaling. the point of an exam is to differentiate students anyways
The main reason I suspect is that teachers are complaining that it takes too long to decipher what the question is getting the students to do and as such, they are put under pressure as a result of taking so long to see what the Q is asking.
 

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The main reason I suspect is that teachers are complaining that it takes too long to decipher what the question is getting the students to do and as such, they are put under pressure as a result of taking so long to see what the Q is asking.
true, that's where most of the difficulty came from
 

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tbh idk why people r complaining, it was fairly reasonable imo I mean even if it was hard everyone's doing the same exam so it'd be compensated by scaling. the point of an exam is to differentiate students anyways
This exactly. It's not supposed to be easy anyway ffs
 

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I think teachers also want students to be able to show off what they know, rather than being confronted with a bunch of english comprehension questions that limit their ability to do so. The paper was relatively okay imo, but for kids that were unfamiliar with the later topics (e.g. CDFs), they had probably learnt a whole year of content and could barely show off what they had learnt. Bit of a mess but scaling will compensate lol
I mean interpreting questions and data is an outcome of the course and a skill we need anyway so english comprehension argument is just a bunch of circlejerk number geeks complaining about reading. Then the whole 'stats heavy' component shouldn't matter anyway because we had SOOOO much extra time to learn it. I mean if you can't teach yourself ONE concept then gl at uni.
 

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I mean interpreting questions and data is an outcome of the course and a skill we need anyway so english comprehension argument is just a bunch of circlejerk number geeks complaining about reading. Then the whole 'stats heavy' component shouldn't matter anyway because we had SOOOO much extra time to learn it. I mean if you can't teach yourself ONE concept then gl at uni.
except for the fact that advanced maths is meant to be a calculus course...
 

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except for the fact that advanced maths is meant to be a calculus course...
you do need calculus for CDF/PDFs + there was a decent amount of calculus in that paper as well, except in this paper it was more applied.
 

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you do need calculus for CDF/PDFs + there was a decent amount of calculus in that paper as well, except in this paper it was more applied.
from what ive been told quite normal questions assessed every year were just not there (that of calc questions) i just dont think nesa wants adv maths to be a calculus based course anymore
 

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do u guys reckon I would get a mark for the last question for only writing the sum of xp(x) ?
 

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btw can anyone estimate what the raw marks will correlate to this year
 

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btw can anyone estimate what the raw marks will correlate to this year
maybe similar to 2013? idk if there's something similar to the uac report we have nowadays but if u could find one it should theoretically be similar
 

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