I can't believe last year's HSC "QUANTA TO QUARKS" (1 Viewer)

[ben]

I thought it was interesting that 18 marks /25 from the quanta to quarks option section were on "S9" dot points in a row basically from the syallabus.

The additional 7 marks were on both more "S9" points and like 3 "K9" marks on definition or something.

I wonder if they will do this again this year! I mean there arn't that many "S9" points in the syallabus. My guess is there will be a "Pauli and Heisenberg" question and a "Significance of standard model of matter" or whatever it is.

 

[quartic]

Yeah it'd be a fair guess that they'd ask about the standard model or the significance of the uncertainty principle or discovery of the neutrino.

Still The Bohr/Rutherford model of the atom is a favorite in trial exams.

 

[Minai]

yeah
i noticed that the manhatten project, chadwick/fermi question and the alpha particle experiment questions were ripped straight off the syllabus...

and yeh i agree, there is a high possibility of heisenberg/pauli, and perhaps Bohr's limitations etc

 

[ben]

Originally posted by MinAi
yeah
i noticed that the manhatten project, chadwick/fermi question and the alpha particle experiment questions were ripped straight off the syllabus...

and yeh i agree, there is a high possibility of heisenberg/pauli, and perhaps Bohr's limitations etc

not only 'ripped straight off the syallabus' but all "gather, process and analyse information to assess..."

 

[McLake]

Rembeber, guys, questions have to be ripped off syl, that's the plan of the new HSC.

 

[kini mini]

Originally posted by quartic


Still The Bohr/Rutherford model of the atom is a favorite in trial exams.

That could be because schools hadn't finished the option yet though.

 

[kini mini]

Originally posted by McLake
Rembeber, guys, questions have to be ripped off syl, that's the plan of the new HSC.

That was the plan of last year's HSC. It's a good bet that this year's will be similar, but I'd be cautious about saying it'll be virtually identical. No-one expected 8 mark questions last year, who knows what surprise we'll get!

 

[McLake]

BOS states that questions must be close to syllubus.

 

[ben]

Originally posted by kini mini


That was the plan of last year's HSC. It's a good bet that this year's will be similar, but I'd be cautious about saying it'll be virtually identical. No-one expected 8 mark questions last year, who knows what surprise we'll get!

Oh! A 25 mark essay for quanta to quarks on the ethical issues involved with electron microscopes!

 

[Minai]

actually, that wouldn't be so surprising, in this day and age of the damn new HSC...