How did your maths 1/2 yearly go? (2 Viewers)

[sunjet]

i went pretty average
i got 85%
equal first in my grade
although, im in my prelim years ^^''
hehe ... am i allowed to post my results here? lol XD

nope, sorry

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[rama_v]

I was happy with my mark. I got 98% (test was out of 96) and I lost 1 and a half marks only. But it was an easy test, too bad the class average was only about 60% which says a lot about the state of maths students this year at our school lol.

 

[jas0nt]

What is a 'z score'?

how many standard deviations you are above/below the mean.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Z-score
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Standard_deviation_diagram.png

i don't think any NSW high schools do that. though every secondary-high schools having yr 11/12 (in ACT) do that.

a z-score gives an exceptionally accurate scale of how well you are/performed compared to the cohort, something i believe simple A-E grades fail to do. seeing a z-score of +2.5 is unimaginably rare, and getting a z-score on an exam/assessable item/final course score of over +2.0 is outstanding. [statistically speaking, a z-score of 0 means you're right on the average. not doing good, not doing bad.]

this only applies to a rather normal distribution.

 

[James87]

Hey
I go to a publicselective, boys high school
46% in maths, 10% above my class average.
Grades average is around 50%.
Apparently heaps of people get band 6's!
How does this work?

 

[rama_v]

Hey
I go to a publicselective, boys high school
46% in maths, 10% above my class average.
Grades average is around 50%.
Apparently heaps of people get band 6's!
How does this work?

Exceptionally hard test maybe?

 

[Pace_T]

hey rama v, do u mind me asking what type of question u lost marks for?

 

[sunjet]

I got 75% - above average.. around 15th because of 3unit class, 7th between 2unit classes.

 

[Slidey]

i don't think any NSW high schools do that. though every secondary-high schools having yr 11/12 (in ACT) do that.

I believe it is covered in veggie maths, actually.

 

[rama_v]

hey rama v, do u mind me asking what type of question u lost marks for?

1/2 mark cause of a silly error in the coordinate geo section
1 mark in similar triangles question (i got the corresponding sides wrong, i hate that stuff)

 

[Pace_T]

haha that stuffs a bitch, i always get the similar sides wrong n stuff, luckily i ddin't have that stuff in my test.
my test was all equations, i was like omg wtf it was basically integration, differentiation and sequences etc
there was no coordinate stuff or anything past band 3 q's so i think there will be a few 90's in my class this time round (a change for once LOL!)

 

[school lover]

How come some of you have your half yearlies now? i guess thats a good thing cause u had the holidays to study.

 

[Pace_T]

yep and to stress out too
can't forget that

 

[jas0nt]

Hey
I go to a publicselective, boys high school
46% in maths, 10% above my class average.
Grades average is around 50%.
Apparently heaps of people get band 6's!
How does this work?

most likely very hard test (which comes as no surprise as it was afaik, the first one you guys did this year)

 

[jas0nt]

I believe it is covered in veggie maths, actually.

what's a veggie math?

 

[velox]

general maths i assume.

 

[jas0nt]

in that case...

I believe it is covered in veggie maths, actually.

i think you misunderstood me. i'm saying scores and results are ranked using standard deviations in year 11/12, and the process/theory of standard deviation is taught in statistics in year 10.

 

[Pace_T]

i got 95%
pretty fukin pissed off. i totally missed one question worth 2 marks. and another question i lost 2 marks for was because i misread the question (fucked up probability shitty shit). i done the answer in like 5 seconds on the board just to prove the fuckers that i could do it

i can't complain too much, 2nd was 85%, and no one has beaten me in maths exams for yr 12 so far

initially it was 100, the teacher even gave me full marks for the question i didn't do because it was like soo fukin easy (had put in like 1 number lol), and the probability one flew right passed his head
then days later he figured it was 95% the fucker

/rant

 

[sunjet]

fish for some more compliments please

 

[goan_crazy]

congrats Pace_T
i reckon u did heaps well-95% is awesome!

 

[Pace_T]

thanks joe_m_2000