Predictions for this years final q (2 Viewers)

[dunjaaa]

well, lets just hope its not probability, otherwise i'd probably be fucked

 

[braintic]

Why are people saying Conics won't be in next year?
It is in for AT LEAST 2 more years.

 

[Immortality]

inbe4 hard circle geo

 

[braintic]

Why are people saying Conics won't be in next year?
It is in for AT LEAST 2 more years.

AMENDMENT: Conics will be in for at least FOUR more years

 

[Carrotsticks]

AMENDMENT: Conics will be in for at least FOUR more years

I can already hear the students groaning and complaining through my computer.

 

[Fade1233]

I can already hear the students groaning and complaining through my computer.

Why whats with conics? Its like free marks. I mean its basic manipulation of algebra.

 

[Trebla]

I would be over the moon if the BoS trials ever strikes it lucky with the last HSC question

 

[Carrotsticks]

Why whats with conics? Its like free marks. I mean its basic manipulation of algebra.

It's one of those topics where you either fully get it and everything is easy, or you don't really get it and everything is difficult. I've found that with students, there's no real 'in between'.

The majority of students are experiencing the latter.

 

[emilios]

Why whats with conics? Its like free marks. I mean its basic manipulation of algebra.

It's not that it's hard. In fact, learning it was quite straightforward. We all know how to find the equations of tangents and normals, set discriminants = 0 and solve simultaneous equations.

It's just boring, tedious algebra bashing that's time consuming in the exams. This is probably the biggest contributor to 'silly mistakes'. And when they try to be tricky with you and give you off-centre ellipses and hyperbolae. Ugh.

 

[Carrotsticks]

It's not that it's hard. In fact, learning it was quite straightforward. We all know how to find the equations of tangents and normals, set discriminants = 0 and solve simultaneous equations.

It's just boring, tedious algebra bashing that's time consuming in the exams. This is probably the biggest contributor to 'silly mistakes'. And when they try to be tricky with you and give you off-centre ellipses and hyperbolae. Ugh.

And by 'they' I presume you mean school exams? It has never been in examined in the history of the current conics syllabus, which was implemented in 1980 iirc.

 

[emilios]

And by 'they' I presume you mean school exams? It has never been in examined in the history of the current conics syllabus, which was implemented in 1980 iirc.

Yes haha, it was in my trial. I had no clue it hadn't been in any of the past HSC's. Really thought it would've.

I still stand by my opinion though. Conics is the ugly child that was fed dog food growing up and always smelt.

 

[Carrotsticks]

Yes haha, it was in my trial. I had no clue it hadn't been in any of the past HSC's. Really thought it would've.

I still stand by my opinion though. Conics is the ugly child that was fed dog food growing up and always smelt.

It can be very pretty sometimes, I've got a real beauty in this year's BOS Trials.

I like to think of it as the child who has the potential to become a great person, but is often mistreated (like you said) to the point where it's almost impossible for it to grow up as a great person.

 

[RealiseNothing]

There are some fantastic conics questions that can be made. It's just that conics is one of those topics where you really need a good insight into it to be able to come up with these results.

 

[anomalousdecay]

Conics wasn't that bad a topic lmao. There are some nice questions in past papers for them.

However the annoying thing is that there aren't too many different types of questions for conics in past papers so sometimes students find it a hit or miss situation.

EDIT: By hit or miss I mean that most of the time its a proving question and many students find they have an inability to prove the question after staring at it too long (like how sem 1 uni physics is like where you think more than write) and then just move on.

 

[dunjaaa]

Probably a hyperbola and an ellipse mixed with reflection property, oh god the tears. It kind of sucks that there are limited questions on this property.

 

[dunjaaa]

lemme guess, based on the last 2 years of BOS trials, I'm guessing the last question will be complex numbers/polynomials lol