Recent content by ttenroca

Take a look at this picture. You can see the school assessment shifts up is moderated to fit he results from the HSC exam. If you look closerly the pattern and gaps between the students is relatively consistent between the raw and moderated mark. In this example the lowest raw assessment mark...

2 equal firsts is bad. One stuffs up the exam, the highest mark will be scaled to the average of the 2 marks. Could be a disaster.

Yeah it was input mask, text box, radio button - B Had a better look at the paper. Thought the core was actually pretty good. My class do AMS and it was not great - some really poorly worded q's. MC had some very tough q's too.

Looked quite challenging - some very trick MC questions and pretty atypical overall. Thoughts?

The folk who write the excel book are often on the team writting the examination....just saying ;)

Every subject "scales well" if you're at the pointy end. The big problem with IPT is the outdated syllabus. They havent even updated the specs document in 9 years. Ridiculous for a technology subject. Fortunately the syllbus is undergoing a serious update. Not sure when it will come in.

Checksum wont detect all errors in transmission, so it does not "ensure" this. It definitely reorganises data for transmission (puts into packets etc) so D is the more correct answer.

The Davis Text is far too detailed. Information overload, but it is a reasonable resource. Doesn't cover AMS because he doesnt understand it because, quite frankly, a lot of it makes no sense. He doesn't write the HSC exam but complains at the annual conference about all the questions. Used to...

If you don't know what RFID is your IPT teacher should not be teaching IPT. Syllabus Page 50.

Nice - the markers Giz themselves every time someone puts "metadata" in an answer. Youll do well

You should be OK with all that. Open file for read\write\append is a little more correct. Had a look at the data stream question. A really wordy and overly complex scenario with no mention of the header\trailer contents, then the first question is about header \trailer. The question was then...

Haven't seen the paper but students are saying the HW\SW option was horrendous. Thoughts?