What have y’all being getting for prac exam 1s?

I’m hovering around the 60% mark rn

Good luck peoples!

May there be a total absence of vector proofs, and may us, the human calculators, not stuff up our simple addition!

we’ll that was both amazing, and kinda bad at the same time

dv/dt = v dv/dx

Not v2 dv/dx

Lol

yh I feel like I didn't do well. I made a big mistake with the partial fraction question, cos I got my values wrong for Bx+C (I got C as 0 instead of B as 0) and bcos of that I got two logs instead of an arctan. But the rest of my working was correct. How much marks out of 4 would that be?

    Does anyone have the exam/solution

    • God replied to this.

      Christ

      Yeah, I’ll scan a copy in a bit

        i feel like it could've been worse but i know i also made stupid algebraic mistakes
        also just realised i messed up the forces question grrrr
        also with the partial fractions question... how was that 4 marks?? they gave us a whole page to work it out but i only used like four lines... feel like i'm missing something 😀

        • God likes this.

        I stuffed up.

        Practice exam marks were about 32-36 but I panicked during the exam and got around 29/40.
        Really annoyed especially because exam was kinda easy.
        Now they are going to give us a hard exam like last year. Why?
        Because it's a habit of VCAA to end their study design with hard exams.

        So my hopes of getting 36-38 ss in spec are shattered
        😢

          Christ
          ur not alone. I did much worser than in my prac exams 🙁🙁, and quite honestly I don't like the way vcaa structures spesh exam 1 since students are awarded more for their algebra skills than their understanding of the content. The downfall of making a relatively 'easy' (I'm hearing mixed responses from my friends about this) exam like this year's is that now those who may not know understand the content could also get higher marks than someone who frequently makes silly errors but are very knowledgable.

          Regardless, there's not much we can do now, and just hope we do better for exam 2. Best of luck!

            Christ

            Omg thank you so much. I never knew the ctrl+bracket vector things existed!

            They’re amazing : )

                God
                Oh wow.
                That's how I do all my vector questions

                  Omg that exam was amazing

                  Well. The short answer was amazing 😄

                  Good thing that was the only part of the exam. 😉

                    60/80= 75% baby!

                    God ikr the short answer was actually better than expected...
                    multi choice were my downfall though 😭