Where are these exams taken, and how do you enrol? Ive always been interested!
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Which trial papers are usually the most difficult? (2 Viewers)
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Every year a committee of users from Bos develop the paper and some time before the HSC they put up a post here on BOS which tells you how to register and what not. Enrolment is basically done by just sending a PM to the authorised user, and then just turn up at the venue. The papers are marked and results are given out before the HSC.
Have this years enrolments closed, and do you get the paper back? Thanks!!
Yeah you just take the paper home. Enrolments open later on in the year. There’s still a few months.
Where are they usually taken?
Sorry, and can you take this if you are not in year 12?
At a university such as Usyd or Unsw or a college. When I sat it, it was at this College which I forgot.
Sure you can.
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 that probably lowered their difficulty a bit.
However, I am fairly confident that it is way harder than any paper in the past 10 years from our school, and any Sydney Grammar trials I've done (almost all, I think all students found it very challenging as well).
Thank you so much for your time!!! Ill definitely consider this challenge.
Did you do the test this year or last year?
Pretty sure that this is straight out of Fitzpatrick's textbook (the first edition, not sure about the editions since).
This year! In fact they're still being marked.
Didnt you say this years exam enrolments havent opened?
I just checked - it is lol
Yep, you're right! Hence, why it is only an indication of the difficulty and didn't appear in the test.
Sorry I was referring to the school internal exams
I think they are going to kill the vectors topic - perhaps introduce matrices during the exam and look at the cross product. Definitely think they will ask to prove dot product in relation to area, and will have a 3D killer geometrical proof. Im thinking to enrol - are you allowed to do these year after year as I could possibly do 3 of these before HSC time comes for me.
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 would have to confirm. Just curious, are you doing the extension 2 course accelerated this year?
I don't see why you can't do these year after year, though DrDusk would have to confirm. Just curious, are you doing the extension 2 course accelerated this year?
Currently, I am in Year 9 but my school cant open up resources for acceleration at this level. They are definitely working for it for next year though. Ill just gain experience from the years I miss so Im not too disappointed.