Maths Ext 2 Predictions (5 Viewers)

[mystic router]

who could know? all these people claiming to be getting 99+ either are the greatest 4u students to have ever walked the earth or are horribly overconfident over not getting docked for politics/sillies.

worry about ur own mark bro, i'm sure u did fine if u sit in front row in our class, regardless of who u are.

well you know how will always harps on about state ranks

 

[OD6]

what do we reckon something around a 60 raw will align to?

 

[98.2]

what do we reckon something around a 60 raw will align to?

mid 80's around

 

[Kiiyu]

i found this exam harder than 2023 imo but evr1 says otherwise

Most of the difficultly in 2023 were with questions that are "non-standard", in a sense which means people who are more prepared would do worse in that exam vs others (also 2023/q15 integral my beloved <3). I looked over the 2024 paper and it definitely looks to be easier than both 2022 and 2023 papers. I can see your angle though - if you don't spend hours and hours grinding, the gimmicky questions which prey on familiarity would be easier. That's just my 2 cents as a 2023 grad though.

 

[Kiiyu]

yeah we got 15 in our class and 10 are confident on 99, last 5 might only get 95 tho so our scaling will be messed up

I personally wouldn't trust this. Imo this is an easier year and they still would want to distinguish between a lot more, so I'm expecting harsher marking. Also from experience there are so many small details that people tend to miss in proofs, (for example, the amount of times I have seen people fail the $\sqrt{2}$ is irrational proof because when they assume $\sqrt{2} = \frac{a}{b}$ for integers $a,b \in \mathbb{Z}$, they forget to state that $b$ is non-zero) and it's just things you don't think about.

 

[nhsctips2024]

I personally wouldn't trust this. Imo this is an easier year and they still would want to distinguish between a lot more, so I'm expecting harsher marking. Also from experience there are so many small details that people tend to miss in proofs, (for example, the amount of times I have seen people fail the $\sqrt{2}$ is irrational proof because when they assume $\sqrt{2} = \frac{a}{b}$ for integers $a,b \in \mathbb{Z}$, they forget to state that $b$ is non-zero) and it's just things you don't think about.

wouldnt that further punish the people who inevitably struggled? seems like theyd punish most of the state just to separate the very top?

 

[askit]

Is it fine if I did my multiple choice in 2B pencil for scanning? - Forgot to go over in pen sadly

 

[Edward34245]

yeah im hoping everyone in this thread is insanely good and the paper was actually harder than they think

Yea same

 

[Dontcallmedude]

Unfortunately, I think the test was easy. Personally had a bad day and I think some others will too but overall, a pretty easy paper. Some highlights are q15e iii and q16 a but everything else is kinda stuff we've seen before. Maybe q16b aswell.

 

[drani]

Unfortunately, I think the test was easy. Personally had a bad day and I think some others will too but overall, a pretty easy paper. Some highlights are q15e iii and q16 a but everything else is kinda stuff we've seen before. Maybe q16b aswell.

Yeah, what do you think an E4 mark will be this year?

 

[OD6]

Unfortunately, I think the test was easy. Personally had a bad day and I think some others will too but overall, a pretty easy paper. Some highlights are q15e iii and q16 a but everything else is kinda stuff we've seen before. Maybe q16b aswell.

Yeah makes sense. Looking back on it there were quite a few easy marks I missed and some questions that weren’t nearly as hard as they looked in the exam. But who knows really, can still get a good ATAR contribution without a crazy mark

 

[OD6]

Yeah, what do you think an E4 mark will be this year?

I don’t really know myself but I’ve heard people saying between 65-75 so my guess is probably a little below 70. Maybe like 67-68?

 

[drani]

I don’t really know myself but I’ve heard people saying between 65-75 so my guess is probably a little below 70. Maybe like 67-68?

Sounds about right, probably closer to 70. I think there’s a few PDFs of the solutions floating around here so you can “mark” what you did if you remember it well and see what you got, that’s what I did. Keep in mind each of the solutions I’ve seen here have mistakes but they are obvious errors only.

 

[Dontcallmedude]

2023 66 90 E4
2023 54 80 E3
2023 43 71 E3
2023 32 61 E2
2022 84 96 E4
2022 76 94 E4
2022 67 91 E4
2022 65 91 E4

 

[Dontcallmedude]

2022 65 - e4
2023 66 - e4

 

[Dontcallmedude]

We can hope laddies

 

[Dontcallmedude]

Something on the psychological side, people are more likely to be expressive of good marks so that might skew the overall perception. But I do believe this test was a bit easier. Some questions were more out of the box for me personally, but yeah.

 

[K1uggie]

Yeah, but you need OOS knowledge to eliminate C and D.

I just put e^(x-iy), simpified C and D a little, and saw it couldnt fit

 

[zackbekro123]

Was 10B or D in the end? Because if you do a dot product a + b + c => costheta = magnitude a^2 + a.b + a.c / magnitude a root(a^2 + b^2 + c^2)
- and a and b and c were unit vectors so = root3 on the bottom and a perpendicular to b and c so on the top you get 1

 

[jinglebells1464646]

yeah like 2022 hsc Q2 but how about a harder one like the entwistle trial

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so the opening flaw is in the assumption step when they let 1= i and concluded without reason that 1*0=i*0=0 (within that assumption). rIGht?