[Will.]

Originally Posted by Petemitch

Bummer. Don't they move the grade boundaries around for harder papers?

yeah, I sorted of counted what I think I got right and it was 25, I counted 38 but then I realised I messed up on a few, so I've taking about 11 marks off.

2013 grade was 23 for a C and I don't remember anything bad about that, so hopefully it will be 20 for a C.

[Pete.]

Originally Posted by Willbrick1999

yeah, I sorted of counted what I think I got right and it was 25, I counted 38 but then I realised I messed up on a few, so I've taking about 11 marks off.

2013 grade was 23 for a C and I don't remember anything bad about that, so hopefully it will be 20 for a C.

Good luck! Hopefully the other paper is good

[Will.]

Originally Posted by Petemitch

Good luck! Hopefully the other paper is good

Thank you! Wish Maths exam was more general life maths like for example:

"You and you children are going on a train: You get a 60% discount and your 2 children get 1/3 off their fare, the prices are..."

That was a question last year, I like those sort of ones.

[RichardG]

In my year it was quite an easy paper and I got quite a low score overall like 110/200 or something yet I still got an A. So if it's a harder paper then the grade boundaries could be even lower. I found in all exams I did much better in the real thing than mocks, the actual exam markers seem to be a lot kinder in giving marks for stuff like working out and basically just for trying... you might do better than you think.

[Jason.]

I know, I heard.

I'm a Math's teacher and exams co-coordinator, and I saw the paper on Thursday, after everyone finished the exam, and it looked messed up.
My class were complaining about it.

One thing I noticed is how quickly the questions got hard. I've always told my students questions 1 to 18 are really easy, and always aim to get 100% in the first 18 questions to secure a B grade. With this year's paper, the questions began to get hard at around question 11 to 12.

What was up with the constant 5 mark questions too? There were like four of them.

Not to mention, where the hell was the Simultaneous Equation question?
Bar the November 2014 paper, I've never seen a non-calculator paper without a question on it.

I think the grade boundaries will be lower. But it all depends on how difficult the Calculator Paper is.

With November 2014, the Non-Calculator was hard, but the Calculator was much easier, so the same pattern might occur with June 2015.