General Exam Thoughts

[Aaron.Judd]

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So what did everyone think of the exam?

Multiple choice was pretty good, with only 2/3 being difficult.

Short answers were excellent and very easy, although the last 7 marker would have surely confused some people.

The organic geology option was good, although I know I lost at least 1 mark there.

I was surprised there was nothing on the atmosphere and Kyoto/Montreal protocols etc.

So what did everyone else think?

[Aaron.Judd]

I thoguht it was also fairly long as well, as past papers take me about 2 hours to complete, yet this paper took all of the full 3 hours.

[devilru]

So what did you guys think?
Again, following the trend of 2008 exams, it was pretty straight forward. They gave us easy 6/7mark questions.... Extinction of megafauna & Australia's fragile nature? Thanks so much

I don't think there were any 'assess' or 'evaluate' questions either, only 'analyse'.

The only thing that i'm dissapointed in is that I got 11 or 12 for the multiple guess >_<.

[Aaron.Judd]

I was surpised there was nothing on the cambrian explosion or nothing much really on natural disasters either.

[Aaron.Judd]

I too am not so confident about multiple choice. There was about 3 mc I wasn't certain on.

[devilru]

hmm, my internet must be screwy, I just created a similar thread.

The exam was fairly easy, nothing too hard. I was also surprised that there wasn't anything on global warming/Ozone, although they had Ozone in last years exam (Australian scientist Q and some other).

[Aaron.Judd]

I agree that it was pretty easy. The tectonics imapcts stuff would have been the hardest and even that was easier than past years.

[devilru]

Here's what I got for multiple choice:
1. C
2. D
3. D
4. A
5. D
6. C
7. B <----- answer was A
8. C
9. B
10. B
11. A
12. C <------ answer was D
13. D
14. A <------ answer was C
15. B <------- answer was A

>_< guh

[Aaron.Judd]

I got the same except I had
7. A - fairly sure of this.
8. B - wasn't sure on this.
14. C
15. B

10 is defiantly correct.

So going by that I then got at least Q 12, 15 wrong, possible 2 more wrong.

[devilru]

Yeh, my 7 is probably wrong, oh well my guess for Q10 makes up for it :P

EDIT: 8 is C in my opinion as life during the Cambrian period was in the ocean, so I don't think living in cooler environments was an issue.

[Forever Young]

I think I got 2, 8 and 12 wrong in the multiple choice.

I really liked the rest of the test though. I know that I got the part wrong about when life first appeared, which in turn would have stuffed up my next answer about the isotopes because I said the same age again, but yeah, can't complain. Although I think I did do a few stupid mistakes which is natural for me.

There were a lot of things I expected to be in there that weren't, including a lot of the "evaluates" and "assess'" etc.

[bheck7]

Good exam. The question with the graph of the BIFs. Did anyone else think it was wrong? I thought hydrospheric oxygen levels and atmospheric oxygen levels were around the wrong way...

[bheck7]

Originally Posted by devilru

Here's what I got for multiple choice:
1. C
2. D
3. D
4. A
5. D
6. C
7. B
8. C
9. B
10. B <----- guessed, prolly wrong
11. A
12. C <------ answer was D
13. D
14. A <------ answer was C
15. B <------- answer was A

>_< guh

i had 7. A.... and 10. is B

[Forever Young]

Originally Posted by bheck7

i had 7. A.... and 10. is B

I hope so.

[bheck7]

Originally Posted by Forever Young

I hope so.

I know so :mrgreen: