Yeah nah not looking good. Physics is one of the hardest subjects to cram for. Specifically due to how nuanced questions can be both mathematically and theoretically. If you can get over 85 externally more power to you. But it’s gonna be an uphill battle.
Nah thats crazy, at my school sometimes a chemistry or biology teacher takes it but dance...
can u slide me ur trial?
Non selective public schools have ass trials that are needlessly difficult. PRobably the NEAP trials
most non-selective schools just rebrand commercial papers, it’s likely your paper was an independent paper or something like that, you can check if there is the “trial examination” text in a sorta tall font on the right in the middle of the page. the independent paper this year was pretty awful, it had errors, wasn’t reflective of how the hsc has been moving and also 90% of my phys class failed it lol
I think it was the independent paper, could you please post the paper so I can double check, cause my teacher didn't post it.
can't post the paper here because of copyright reasons but do you remember a question 23 which made you detail an experiment you did about circular motion?
I cant remember tbh, but there was a length contraction mcq
Yes i remeber that! I also remeber the one about malus law
Yup. I remeber that. It was wrong lol. I still remember the kid begging for this mark not to be removed
Hmm? What's your school ranking. Mine is 300 and the average was 45. Do you count a fail as below 60 or below 50? Admintedly the Physics cohort was made up of 70 percent Extension student. Man beating that MX2 girl was so funny. She got like 38 and begged the teacher so hard. And I always stole the practials from her and her nerd friends.
My school ranking is in the 400s but our science department is especially bad and we pretty much never get science b6s, I don’t know the exact average but I only know of a few people who got 50% (and I only got 85%), and there were a lot of people in the 20-30% range
Damn that's rough buddy. My Physcis teacher marked like a Nazi. For that 7 marker, the average was like 1 or 2. And that piss easy one for Malsues law, I only got 1 mark out of 3 for some reason.
yeah that 7 marker was insane I got full marks on it but only because I wrote like 2 pages, and the marking criteria was way too strict for no reason. the main thing that got me was that stupid 8 marker on cathode ray questions, like it’s such a niche syllabus dot point and I completely forgot about it until the night before but didn’t bother studying it since I just assumed they wouldn’t ask for all 4 of them. doubt they’d ask something like either of those qs in the hsc though
Bro wrote an English essay. Yeah the marking criteia was insane. Physics teacher just said "write anything that comes to your mind".
My school ranking is 550-600, and the smartest kid got 72, I feel like physics is targeted at syndey schools with actual teachers