VCE Specialist Maths Exam 1 - 08/11/19 - Discussion/Questions/Solutions

[Joseph41]

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[AlphaZero]

And now, after some absolutely embarrassing derps on my end, with just a bit of luck...

SPECIALIST EXAM 1 SOLUTIONS

[crouchie]

If you've been on the Methods exams discussion threads, you probably know what this post is for.

Our solutions will be up as soon as possible.

I have my own uni exams very soon (first one Monday lol), so I'm probably just going to write the solutions by hand instead of TeX-ing them since I don't exactly have an amazing amount of free time on my hands.

Best of luck tomorrow! 

Great stuff mate. Looking forward to your well written solutions as always!

[Tau]

I thought the exam was pretty good, some interesting sorts of questions, but fairly decent.

[Alexmaths]

Really had trouble showing the forces one and getting the last question in the correct form, but other than that everything else seemed fine.

[AnonymooseUser]

Does anyone remember if question 5 asked for intersection points to be labelled, or just endpoints and turning points?

[Eric Dong]

  concerning Maths tutor XD. Questions turned out to be a bit unexpected compared to the last few years’. How did you guys find it? A+ cut off ? 35?

[Purple_Mango]

Does anyone remember if question 5 asked for intersection points to be labelled, or just endpoints and turning points?

Only endpoints and turning points, I'm pretty sure

[futuredoc]

What score should I aim for in exam 2 with an A (32-33/40) on exam 1 for a raw 40? Is it even still possible (given I'm top 20% of strong cohort)?
Felt like I really screwed up exam 1 (

[justaloser]

Really had trouble showing the forces one and getting the last question in the correct form, but other than that everything else seemed fine.

I heard from my friends that you weren't supposed to rationalise your fractions in order to get it into the correct form. Regardless, I think that they'll still award 3 or 4 marks if you only have difficulty with writing the answer in the form.

Does anyone remember if question 5 asked for intersection points to be labelled, or just endpoints and turning points?

Yep, just endpoints and turning points.

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I thought this exam wasn't too bad. Is the general consensus that it was slightly harder than last year's? Nevertheless, the fact that there was only 3 marks (with 3 1-mark questions) for probability suggests that there'll be a lot more of probability/statistics on Exam 2.

[AlphaZero]

Solutions are up!

Managed to get them up before the thread made two pages eyy


Edit: lol guess not

[studyingg]

Solutions are up!

Managed to get them up before the thread made two pages eyy

I think you forgot to include the last page, thank you so much though!!

[ss96684]

Thanks.
I think you have made an error on 9a.

[AnonymooseUser]

What score should I aim for in exam 2 with an A (32-33/40) on exam 1 for a raw 40? Is it even still possible (given I'm top 20% of strong cohort)?
Felt like I really screwed up exam 1 (

I got ~29/40 for exam 1 in methods - sometimes these things happen so try not to beat yourself up. Based on the twm distributions from last year I would estimate very roughly ~93% for exam 2 for a raw 40. All you can do at this stage however is move on and focus on doing your best - exam 2 is worth double exam 1!

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Do you think I would lose a mark for 7c for writing 6+6k, instead of just 6k. Don't know what I was thinking.

[Tau]

Solutions are up!

Managed to get them up before the thread made two pages eyy

Btw, Question 3 doesn’t actually specify that h is normally distributed.