"2nd hardest exam in 15 years" (1 Viewer)

[redd]

i go coaching with terry and this is the email i got from him

If you are interested, you may download my solution version of the HSC 2005
Maths Extension 2 from my website: www.hsccoaching.com, then click on the
downloads page. (It's a hyperlink at the bottom of the downloads page)
I think this is a difficult paper. Compared to the last 15 years or so, this is
the second hardest (only behind 2003).
Please share your thoughts of the paper with me.

Regarding the 2-unit paper. I have had a look and the last two questions do not
seem easy. But I do not have any copy. If someone wants me to write the solution
for it, please send me a copy of the question paper.

Good luck with the 3-u exam. ///

hmmmmmmmmm

 

[Sepulchres]

Ahh, what about 93...?

 

[redd]

yea im going to reply to him by saying it wasnt 2nd hardest. the papers from the early 1990s were quite difficult. but having said that its in my opinion its definitely the second hardest in the new syllabus as in 01 onwards.

 

[Calculon]

Someone says this about every maths paper every fucking year.

 

[jarro_2783]

I thought it was quite hard, but I haven't seen past papers so I can't really say.

 

[damo676767]

yea im going to reply to him by saying it wasnt 2nd hardest. the papers from the early 1990s were quite difficult. but having said that its in my opinion its definitely the second hardest in the new syllabus as in 01 onwards.

what do you meen new syllabus, it hasn't changed in like 18 years of somthing like that

 

[redd]

Someone says this about every maths paper every fucking year.

this is not 'someone' =p , its a senior marker for over the past 15 years or so

what do you meen new syllabus, it hasn't changed in like 18 years of somthing like that

as in 01 onwards

 

[Estel]

Someone says this about every maths paper every fucking year.

True, true; but you do have to admit it was harder than your paper.

 

[Stefano]

Thanks for the link to the solutions redd.

I just realised how many mistakes I made!

 

[Slidey]

I don't really think the paper was hard. I think that the paper was simply too drawn out.

 

[~ ReNcH ~]

I don't really think the paper was hard. I think that the paper was simply too drawn out.

Overall, I'd rather have sat the 2001, 2002 or 2004 papers....I think last year's was more straight-forward and less time-consuming.

 

[chinesefireball]

what do you meen new syllabus, it hasn't changed in like 18 years of somthing like that

i have a feeling bits of the syllabus changed in 2000/2001 (can't remember what year )

But nothing drastic. In fact my dad did the equiavalent of extension 2 maths nearly 50 years ago - and very little has changed since then

 

[polythenepam]

I think this is a difficult paper. Compared to the last 15 years or so, this is
the second hardest (only behind 2003).
Please share your thoughts of the paper with me.


hmmmmmmmmm

definitely not
this years paper was on the easy side
not that it wasn't difficult
id say it was slightly more difficult than last years

 

[GaDaMIt]

Anyone care to inform me who this Terry Lee guy is? PM would be appreciated as I'm doubting I'll read this thread again

 

[Calculon]

Overall, I'd rather have sat the 2001, 2002 or 2004 papers....I think last year's was more straight-forward and less time-consuming.

Easy paper = Talented people get fucked over = Bad.

 

[~ ReNcH ~]

Easy paper = Talented people get fucked over = Bad.

Well, I'm not a talented person

 

[lum]

where are the answers?? i don't see them on the dl page at all

 

[jake2.0]

there is a link at the bottom of Terry Lee's page

 

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omg jeebus

a math exam paper where the questions are not straight forward!!! what are we going to do!!!!!!

 

[KeypadSDM]

Oh yeah, 2003 the hardest in 15 years?
Not likely.
It's just the paper with the lowest raw marks in the last 15 years. No one got 90+% in the bloody paper.