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chewnugm said:
WTF just happened? I feel i have just been violated by HSC. The chem of art stuff was toughand the rest was hard too. I think i prob got 90+ raw mark but it was a wierd paper....
um, how can you say you found the paper hard, yet anticipate a raw mark of over 90.
 

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i thought it was good, really happy, but happier that HSC is over
 

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i do calculation questions in past papers, and then i somehow always manage to not be able to do them in the exam itself.



i found calculations in today's paper so confusing.

plus zinc tablets - wtf?
plus what were the 2 redox reactions in the shipwrecks option. one was ag+ + 2e- --> ag(s)
what was the other?
i made up alot.
 

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hjp. said:
um, how can you say you found the paper hard, yet anticipate a raw mark of over 90.
compared to past papers this one felt harder...i usually get like 94 in past papers. Anyone get the galvanic cell q...what potenitla were we supposed to use for the cathode?
 

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Incredible, def band 6. The last qu of shipwrecks was fairly mael for people who didn't study an austrailan wreck.
 

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chewnugm said:
compared to past papers this one felt harder...i usually get like 94 in past papers. Anyone get the galvanic cell q...what potenitla were we supposed to use for the cathode?
The cathode was the chlorine gas turning into chlorine anions.
 

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chewnugm said:
compared to past papers this one felt harder...i usually get like 94 in past papers. Anyone get the galvanic cell q...what potenitla were we supposed to use for the cathode?
yeah add 2.94 (potassium) to -0.94 (the other one- *forget*)
 

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i do calculation questions in past papers, and then i somehow always manage to not be able to do them in the exam itself.



i found calculations in today's paper so confusing.

plus zinc tablets - wtf?
plus what were the 2 redox reactions in the shipwrecks option. one was ag+ + 2e- --> ag(s)
what was the other?
i made up alot.
Thats exactly what happens to me!!
 
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chewnugm said:
compared to past papers this one felt harder...i usually get like 94 in past papers. Anyone get the galvanic cell q...what potenitla were we supposed to use for the cathode?
ooh that was the only question i wasn't sure about. I used the Cl2 gas porential, times it buy 2 and added it to the +ve nickel one. That meant i got a voltage of about 2.9X volts, dont quite remember. What did evry 1 else get?
 

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ooh that was the only question i wasn't sure about. I used the Cl2 gas porential, times it buy 2 and added it to the +ve nickel one. That meant i got a voltage of about 2.9X volts, dont quite remember. What did evry 1 else get?
You dont times the chloride by 2, molar ratio's are not considered in that.
 

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the galvanic cell question really fucked me over.

i'd never seen one like that before.
 

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It was an alright paper. Not too easy, but not as hard as some of the past papers I've done.

Did anyone else get hydrogen gas for question 20?
 

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WE FUCKING DID IT!!!! THIS SHIT IS OVER!!!!!!!!!!!!!! :hammer::eek::sleep::D:)
 

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chewnugm said:
compared to past papers this one felt harder...i usually get like 94 in past papers. Anyone get the galvanic cell q...what potenitla were we supposed to use for the cathode?
the chlorine.
platinum is inert and just transfers the elctrons
 

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squeenie said:
It was an alright paper. Not too easy, but not as hard as some of the past papers I've done.

Did anyone else get hydrogen gas for question 20?
Yeah, think i fucked up the rest of the question though.
 

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I reckon that's probably one of the easiest Chem papers in many years...

I can (not boasting) say that I killed it... very straightforward paper IMO (with some small exceptions).

WOOOOOOOOOOT THIS FUCKER'S FINISHED HIS HSC!!!!!!!!!!!!
:D :D :D :D :D :D
 

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All the calculations I found quiet hard. I guess I didn't practice them recently for a long time, lol. Found so much mistakes in the calculations.

For the AAS for zinc, I was like wtf.
 

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Shadose said:
All the calculations I found quiet hard. I guess I didn't practice them recently for a long time, lol. Found so much mistakes in the calculations.

For the AAS for zinc, I was like wtf.
For AAS, you were supposed to work it out from the graph, right?
 

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