General Thoughts: Mathematics (5 Viewers)

[Rafy]

Share your overall thoughts here

 

[Shazer2]

Found it quite a hard exam.

MC - 9/10
Question 11 - 14/15 (maybe 15)
Question 12 - 12/15
Question 13 - 13/15
Question 14 - 6/15
Question 15 - 6/15
Question 16 - 6/15

Around 65-67 raw I think.

 

[SophxMusic]

Compared to last year's, holy crap.
It was so difficult! And annoying too, it seemed to include a lot more questions aimed at extension students and limited the ability of 2U students to demonstrate what they do know.. I get they can't make it easy but if they only test the top 5% of students everyone else gets screwed over.
Disheartening to feel so bad after actually dedicating myself to study and averaging around 70% raw on other past exams... I'm sure I'm not the only one to feel that way. Of course scaling/aligning will help to an extent but still.



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[andybandy]

MC - 9/10
Q11 - 15/15
Q12 - 15/15
Q13 - 15/15
Q14 - 10 - 14/15
Q15 - 12-13/15
Q16 - 11/15

way harder than last years

 

[ninasandwich]

holy shit. even as an ext1 student, I went in pretty confident averaging 90% across the year, but that threw me off completely. To many graphs and applications- you're right, this was aimed to challenge ext 1 students aswell as 2unit ones :|

 

[ocatal]

Much harder than last year. I was stuck on the trigonometry question asking to find the expression of r^2. Used the cosine rule but just couldn't get it.

 

[andybandy]

holy shit. even as an ext1 student, I went in pretty confident averaging 90% across the year, but that threw me off completely. To many graphs and applications- you're right, this was aimed to challenge ext 1 students aswell as 2unit ones :|

agreee! it was to many graphs for my liking, i hate graphs haha, but im hoping for a band 6, think i did well enough for it

 

[leesh95]

Okay I am getting a 70 out of 100 if I am lucky.

Question 14 was way harder than question 15.

And I spent too much time on the r question. Also couldn't do the stupid fish question at all. FML

My timing also sucked

 

[avhead]

One of the harder papers in the last few years IMO. ~85/100 raw I think. (Perhaps subtract some silly mistakes from below)
If I had to estimate....

9/10 MC
13/15 Q11 (embarrassing mistake on the log integration)
15/15 Q12
15/15 Q13
12/15 Q14 (Maybe 13, was d) a=3???)
11/15 Q15
10/15 Q16

Anybody care to guess B6 raw cutoff?

 

[sammie293]

So much harder than previous years omg!
I didn't do a few questions, lucky for a 50 raw

Felt like crying a few times in the exam
But I found Q16 and Q15 to be easier than the earlier questions, very weird.

 

[leesh95]

How did everyone find the fish question in question 15? I couldn't get it :/

 

[RamizG]

Can someone please upload the paper ?

 

[Focus is Key]

I think I did pretty poorly. I felt intimidated because Question 16 wasn't necessarily the hardest and I felt it was just a bit harder in general. Think I got like 70/100.

 

[avhead]

How did everyone find the fish question in question 15? I couldn't get it :/

I couldn't get iv) although in hindsight I think I have an idea of how to do it but I may have gotten part v)

 

[blinx96]

tbh i definitely got a raw mark above 80... they better scale it well so i get an exam mark of 90 ahahahah
the probability question towards the end of the exam was f upped ahhahah
and question 16 was okay... didnt get full marks in it ofc
but Q11-14, 15 marks for each question

 

[blinx96]

One of the harder papers in the last few years IMO. ~85/100 raw I think. (Perhaps subtract some silly mistakes from below)
If I had to estimate....

10/10 MC
13/15 Q11 (embarrassing mistake on the log integration)
15/15 Q12
15/15 Q13
12/15 Q14 (Maybe 13, was d) a=3???)
11/15 Q15
10/15 Q16

Anybody care to guess B6 raw cutoff?

my guess... 82

 

[leesh95]

my guess... 82

Fuark.. I won't even pass if that's true

 

[JFX]

9/10 MC
Q11 - 13/15 - Forgot how to do limits ugh..
Q12 - 15/15
Q13 - 15/15
Q14 - 11/15 - Question b i worked out just when time ran out zzz...
Q15 - 11/15 - Probability screwed me
Q16 - 10/15 - Holy crap,

Agree that this exam was so much harder than last years or alot of past papers T.T

 

[SuperMike96]

I felt average about the exam. I will probably get 60-70 raw. I found it weird how the hard questions were mixed with the easy questions. Usually the last two questions are entirely difficult and everything else is relatively easy.

 

[avhead]

tbh i definitely got a raw mark above 80... they better scale it well so i get an exam mark of 90 ahahahah

Judging by past years and the way Mathematics has aligned... I think above 80 should be pretty sweet for a band 6. (Source: ULTIMATE RAW MARKS DATABASE v2.0)