What are your assessments like? (2 Viewers)

[thehootman]

Hey all!

Just wanting to know what other school's assessment tasks are like.

At my school, we build a model (eg electric motor, wind-powered lifting device) and submit a written report to accompany it. I really like this way as I am good at building things as well as theory, however, some really suck at it.

How does this compare to other schools?

 

[FuelPumpingEngn]

We made a balsa wood truss, solar car and rockets. All where pretty fun. Making a wind powered lifting device sounds like fun aswell.

 

[2syllables]

lets see

1. Civil Structures - Built truss bridge out of balsa wood

2. Lifting Devices - hypothetical crane company on site using a mobile crane to pick some transfomer thingy - SOOO much calculations!!! - they pretty hard too

 

[sanjeevprasad99]

ummm we dun make n e thing, or go on trips n shyt, our assessments are huge and it covers the whole syllabus
i actuali asked my teacher 2day y we dun make stuff like otha schools, n he said "so we can finish quicker".....i say he is right, we r doin the last topic, n we will finish in about 1.5 weeks then we will jus revise...and the other day i found out that some schools are 3 cores behind us! o well, goodluck 2 all of u ppl!

 

[thehootman]

Please type with proper grammar and spelling. I find that excruciating to read

 

[2syllables]

Please type with proper grammar and spelling. I find that excruciating to read

lol u got a point there

 

[FuelPumpingEngn]

Please type with proper grammar and spelling. I find that excruciating to read

yes, i second that! Making the models is all about fun, and learning a little on the way. Engineering is pretty much the only subject i actually do have fun in so i think making the models is worth it! You should have some fun at school.

 

[2syllables]

yea i making paper planes next assignment for aeronautical

 

[sanjeevprasad99]

Please type with proper grammar and spelling. I find that excruciating to read

cbf

 

[dim987654321]

my school does 5 reports (the best three count), a half yearly exam ,trials and a folio of drawings that we hand in at the end of the course.

 

[thehootman]

cbf

Enlighten me on what that stands for

 

[Renesis]

cbf? come on man, are you serious?... "can't be f***ed"

 

[Famguy]

My school has theory tests for engineering we dont build models or nothing, pretty hard though

Civil Structures: Engineering Report on Bridges
Perosnal and Public Transport : Triangulation Tests
Braking Systems

 

[scuba05]

Our assessments have to be the easiest.
Iv just handed in an exam a few weeks ago. No its not a typo, i handed in an exam. We took the test home, and then brought it back completed. How stupid and easy is that.
Other than that, we have done 1 engineering report, which was entered into a competition, which we won 2 awards and $375, not bad for just doin an assessment
We also built a bridge from radiata pine(our school is chat as, cant afford balsa use whatever we have). Ours withheld some 150kg+. Other than that, only 1/2yrls and yrls.

Our school is really shit, everything is dodgy.

 

[qmaz]

we had to make a bridge out of spaghetti, thin kind not tubular

mine held 30kg's

those italians and their spaghetti