Yes, definitely have a go at the BoS trials! I would have last year had the syllabus not changed, but I'd encourage you to take full advantage of the opportunity to practice given that the syllabus won't be changing much anytime soon (except perhaps for this year, we'll see what happens)!
That's interesting, I'd have imagined that they could just get you to sit the exams even without attending regular classes though, if they offer extension 2?
Although in any case that still leaves you with 3 years which is still plenty to gain a great mark!
Yeah I fully see some insane geometrical proof vectors coming up, giving that synthetic geometry is out this year! Although probably not matrices or cross product, as that isn't within the syllabus and not really "fair game".
I don't see why you can't do these year after year, though DrDusk...
Speaking about BoS trials, it'll be an interesting one this year, especially with the new syllabus, to see what sort of crazy hybrid questions you guys come up with!
I'm excited!
You are probably right that the constrained time limit probably did have an effect on performance and perception of difficulty. However, I only have done the topics relevant to the new 4U syllabus of the BoS trials (i.e no conics or geo, where insane BoS trial questions tend to come from), hence...
We haven't received them back yet! I'm not sure if I'm yet at liberty to reveal exam questions, so I'll err on the side of caution.
However, here's a question of comparable difficulty to the moderate to harder (but not hardest) questions of the exam:
Suppose a, b, c > 0 and abc=1. Now prove...
Speaking of difficulty of trials, Bored of Studies trials are great, but one of our recent school exams was in fact harder! (I have done BoS trials and papers from all sorts of public and private schools as well as HSC exams, so can accurately compare). It was pretty incredible, and is certainly...