difficulty of fins1613 final?

[halapenyo]

in comparison to the multiple choice in ECON1101 final is it harder or easier?

(just want to know how fuked i am atm)

[soloooooo]

You found ECON1101 hard?

[4025808]

You found ECON1101 hard?

I found ECON1101 finals MC quite hard tbh.

Anyway, have a look at some past papers from lecture skipper or something

[halapenyo]

i thought the multiple choice was hardish. thats why im using that to compare because fins the whole exam is MC.

[slyhunter]

tbh if you knew your stuff, it was pretty simple, just tricky wording

[4025808]

Oh well, how's FINS1613 quiz 3 so far? Need to know how much and what to study just in case there's going to be some troll Q being put up...

[halapenyo]

Oh well, how's FINS1613 quiz 3 so far? Need to know how much and what to study just in case there's going to be some troll Q being put up...

it was slightly harder than the previous one. theres only 4 questions, and they just tested the basic stuff like portfolio beta, expected return, variance and CAPM.

[4025808]

it was slightly harder than the previous one. theres only 4 questions, and they just tested the basic stuff like portfolio beta, expected return, variance and CAPM.

What sort of tricky questions were there? i.e. was the wording of the Qs ambiguous?

[Shadowdude]

tbh if you knew your stuff, it was pretty simple, just tricky wording

hell yeah


Bloody Finance trying to trip you up on how well you carefully read the question.

[halapenyo]

What sort of tricky questions were there? i.e. was the wording of the Qs ambiguous?

hell yeah


Bloody Finance trying to trip you up on how well you carefully read the question.

yeah lol the wording is so bloody ambiguous. and to make it worse theres only 4 questions. so each question is worth 2.5 marks and the test is weighted at 13.5%.

[4025808]

... fuck. that means. if one Q wrong. 7.5 already QQ

[lyounamu]

its easy stuff

[halapenyo]

its easy stuff

are you saying this because you aced it or is it generally easy?

i need like 70-72% in the exam to get what im aiming for.

[lyounamu]

its generally easy mate. but then again it depends on person as i am quite maths-oriented.

I went through a lot of past papers. i found my paper to be a little step up but that's okay because there was scaling i think (if it is harder)

in saying that i found fins1612 harder than fins1613 (which some people disagree about).

[halapenyo]

... fuck. that means. if one Q wrong. 7.5 already QQ

yeah dude and i made a small error in question 3, and question 4 was related to the answer to question 3. so i lost 5 marks in the test and that translates to losing like 7 marks from my final score.

thats the difference between a distinction and a low credit. and all because of one small error. fml.

[halapenyo]

its generally easy mate. but then again it depends on person as i am quite maths-oriented.

I went through a lot of past papers. i found my paper to be a little step up but that's okay because there was scaling i think (if it is harder)

in saying that i found fins1612 harder than fins1613 (which some people disagree about).

nice. alrite ill go through papers and stuff. what did you get in fins1613? (if you dont mind me asking)

[lyounamu]

89 not too shabby

[BiancaC]

yeah lol the wording is so bloody ambiguous. and to make it worse theres only 4 questions. so each question is worth 2.5 marks and the test is weighted at 13.5%.

Since when is it weighted at 13.5%? Isnt it just 10 and then they drop your worst and average them out of 40?

[thepatientfrog]

Anyway, have a look at some past papers from lecture skipper or something

Can you please let me know where I can get the past papers?

[Omnipotence]

Since when is it weighted at 13.5%? Isnt it just 10 and then they drop your worst and average them out of 40?

Approx 13.5% of overall mark.

[Jashua_Long]

You guys had it easy. You take 4 tests and the worst is ignored. I didn't get that. I got like 3/10 for the first quiz, it would have been ignored if the course was according to the rules you have this semester.

[Omnipotence]

You guys had it easy. You take 4 tests and the worst is ignored. I didn't get that. I got like 3/10 for the first quiz, it would have been ignored if the course was according to the rules you have this semester.

=]

[Jashua_Long]

yeah dude and i made a small error in question 3, and question 4 was related to the answer to question 3. so i lost 5 marks in the test and that translates to losing like 7 marks from my final score.

thats the difference between a distinction and a low credit. and all because of one small error. fml.

I am doing a course that only has 85 marks in total

Midsemester exam ---> paper was out of 30, but the weighting was 40%

Final exam ---> paper is going to be out of 40, but the weighting is 45%.

So, we are going to get a mark out of 100, that is only based on a mark out of 85. Allows massive viability with marks. Final mark I get will be much lower than it should be.


I am not sure if they scale the marks or not. I asked the tutor and he didn't know. He said that he thought they weren't scaled when he did it. Also, the lecturer sets quite hard exam questions (the sort where you have to do like 10 minutes of work to get 1 mark in the multiple choice section. Make 1 mistake and you have lost the 10 minutes and the mark). Lecturer is such a troll.

Plus, the midsemester exam was only 1.5 hours long, and the final exam is only going to be 2 hours long. Jesus, basically all of your marks are decided in 3.5 hours spread across two days.

[halapenyo]

Plus, the midsemester exam was only 1.5 hours long, and the final exam is only going to be 2 hours long. Jesus, basically all of your marks are decided in 3.5 hours spread across two days.

woah which course is this? hope its not a commerce course