General Thoughts: Mathematics Extension 1 (1 Viewer)

[Drsoccerball]

Let us rek you and I,
When the Band 6 is spread out against the sky
Like a student etherised upon a syllabus;
Let us go, through these half-deserted sheets
The muttering retreats
Of restless nights of binomial theorems
And probability with perms and combs:
Markers which see through our tedious argument
Of unsatisfactory content
To lead you to an overwhelming question...
Oh, do not ask, "What's the Band 6 cutoff"
Let us go and work out butt off.

Better than my creative tbh...

 

[kawaiipotato]

Let us rek you and I,
When the Band 6 is spread out against the sky
Like a student etherised upon a syllabus;
Let us go, through these half-deserted sheets
The muttering retreats
Of restless nights of binomial theorems
And probability with perms and combs:
Markers which see through our tedious argument
Of unsatisfactory content
To lead you to an overwhelming question...
Oh, do not ask, "What's the Band 6 cutoff"
Let us go and work out butt off.

lol Did you actually make that up just then..???

 

[sida1049]

Did you actually make that up just then..???

Yes.

 

[sida1049]

lol Did you actually make that up just then..???

(I might have taken some slight inspiration from T.S Eliot.)

 

[Drsoccerball]

(I might have ripped off T.S Eliot.)

You should've wrote that in white lol.

 

[diladial]

if I wrote the CORRECT answer somewhere in my working out but then when I restated it under it away from the mess of algebra INCORRECTLY (I think I left the 1/2 off) would I lose a mark??? this is such a dumb mistake I'm not forgiving myself

 

[Carrotsticks]

if I wrote the CORRECT answer somewhere in my working out but then when I restated it under it away from the mess of algebra INCORRECTLY (I think I left the 1/2 off) would I lose a mark??? this is such a dumb mistake I'm not forgiving myself

Transcription error, you'll still get the mark (assuming the marker spotted the correct answer in your working out).

 

[diladial]

Transcription error, you'll still get the mark (assuming the marker spotted the correct answer in your working out).

Thank you!!

 

[Drongoski]

(Belatedly) Just saw the paper.

Appears to be a really easy paper this year.

 

[thomasdo1]

If only the last question was a harder projectile or binomial, it's not skill, it's silly mistakes that separate people

 

[Carrotsticks]

If only the last question was a harder projectile or binomial, it's not skill, it's silly mistakes that separate people

They most likely made the paper easier intentionally in response to the decreasing number of students taking calculus courses.

The last time a moderately difficult binomial question was put in the paper was 2011 HSC.

This is what happened as a result: http://www.smh.com.au/nsw/hsc-students-maths-paper--cruel-and-difficult-20111027-1mlg1.html

 

[tiffany99]

So what do you guys think a 62/70 allign to?.... my stupid silly mistakes

Will i make an E4?

 

[Carrotsticks]

So what do you guys think a 62/70 allign to?.... my stupid silly mistakes

Will i make an E4?

Definitely E4. As for what mark it aligns to, I am estimating 94-95. Leaning more towards 94.

 

[luhanbby]

if I got 59/70, would it align to like 86 or something?


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[tiffany99]

Thank youu!!!

 

[photastic]

if I got 59/70, would it align to like 86 or something?


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Maybe considering the exam was easier than previous years because that mark would've earned you an E4 for every other year so who knows.

 

[luhanbby]

Maybe considering the exam was easier than previous years because that mark would've earned you an E4 for every other year so who knows.

hmmm I know like pretty much everyone on here did well but truthfully from a public school ranked in top 100, my friends didn't really do that well and these are the 'top kids' of 2u and 3u. I think most people dropped the 4 marks for binomial and couldn't solve the last 2 parts of projectile. The 4U kids aced it though LOL. I mean I would be grateful if 59/70 is e4 but if not an e3 is fine too I guess hahah


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[Librah]

hmmm I know like pretty much everyone on here did well but truthfully from a public school ranked in top 100, my friends didn't really do that well and these are the 'top kids' of 2u and 3u. I think most people dropped the 4 marks for binomial and couldn't solve the last 2 parts of projectile. The 4U kids aced it though LOL. I mean I would be grateful if 59/70 is e4 but if not an e3 is fine too I guess hahah


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nah 59/70 will most likely be 90-93. The aligned marks change quite drastically compared to 4u. Every raw mark or 2 will raise your exam mark by like 1-2. Then again, this years exam was really easy.

 

[thomasdo1]

They most likely made the paper easier intentionally in response to the decreasing number of students taking calculus courses.

The last time a moderately difficult binomial question was put in the paper was 2011 HSC.

This is what happened as a result: http://www.smh.com.au/nsw/hsc-students-maths-paper--cruel-and-difficult-20111027-1mlg1.html

If they were prepared they would have known that to get rid of odds you let x=-1 , pretty common textbook questions to multiply everything by x too, and yeah I can understand, considering I read somewhere that the median atar in some year was 69

 

[vflaash]

i got 50 (without carry over errors) and 53 (with carry over errors), what would that align to? /70