Mathematics Extension 1 Predictions/Thoughts (1 Viewer)

[notme123]

@notme123
I feel the exam had a reasonable gradient of difficulty - a non-ext2 student should be satisfied with comfortably getting through Q11-12, then wading through the wordy and pronumeral bloated Q13 and playing substitution games. Marks in Q14 will be sparse because each question really targets a sophisticated understanding of something niche in the syllabus, still well within the syllabus though!

youre quite the wordsmith. nicely put

 

[carrotsss]

Yeah honestly in terms of separating students that was a pretty good paper

 

[jc7726]

im expecting a raw 70-75 hopefully... i messed up quite a bit of stuff. Ik that scales to e4 but my rank might come back to bite me and drag down my mark. hopefully that doesn't happen...

 

[iheartcookies1012]

Istg the people on this website are some of the most insufferable shitheads I've come across. "I'm gonna cry bc i might get 92 in a course I've finished".

sorry....its cus now my chances of getting into my desired course are quite slim. I need pretty good results, and a 96 to a 92 is quite a big hit to my atar. Sorry if it came across that way, definitely did not mean it like that. My expectations were just high from the good results I achieved at school + past papers. I just did 'terrible' relative to my previous marks. Like a lot worse that I'd hoped...

 

[iheartcookies1012]

on a real note tho, is the 2023 paper harder than the 2022 or 2021? Some people are saying its easier, but surely its a bit harder or at least on par with 2022 right?

 

[jc7726]

on a real note tho, is the 2023 paper harder than the 2022 or 2021? Some people are saying its easier, but surely its a bit harder or at least on par with 2022 right?

2021 is definitely easier than 2022 and 2023 imo. also i would say the actual content of 2023 is harder than 2022, but 2022 was more difficult in terms of interpreting the question because from like 13c onwards each question contained massive paragraphs

 

[iheartcookies1012]

2021 is definitely easier than 2022 and 2023 imo. also i would say the actual content of 2023 is harder than 2022, but 2022 was more difficult in terms of interpreting the question because from like 13c onwards each question contained massive paragraphs

thanks

 

[notme123]

2021 is definitely easier than 2022 and 2023 imo. also i would say the actual content of 2023 is harder than 2022, but 2022 was more difficult in terms of interpreting the question because from like 13c onwards each question contained massive paragraphs

ye exactly. 2021 felt more like a trial exam than anything. 2021 q14 is also radically different as it was many self-contained problems rather than a small number of significant ones

 

[Yueyue]

Ngl I feel like this exam was harder than last yr’s but probably not by a significant extent. Most questions were very generic except for maybe the last 2 MC questions (mainly due to time pressures) and 14) c. Probs similar alignment tho… congrats to everyone for finishing the last maths exam of yr 12!!!

 

[dumNerd]

There's one way to summarise the difficulties of these papers. 3U kids would have found 2023 harder and 4u kids would have found 2022 harder (2022 had a stats question inaccessible to most kids regardless of caliber because we simply don't study stats). I think for a 4u kid the questions in the 2023 paper weren't too bad but same for the 2022 paper apart from the last question.

 

[scaryshark09]

There's one way to summarise the difficulties of these papers. 3U kids would have found 2023 harder and 4u kids would have found 2022 harder (2022 had a stats question inaccessible to most kids regardless of caliber because we simply don't study stats). I think for a 4u kid the questions in the 2023 paper weren't too bad but same for the 2022 paper apart from the last question.

us 4u kids all failed 2023 so...

 

[dumNerd]

us 4u kids all failed 2023 so...

O: most 4u kids I talked to were fine (62-64 raw). My students found it alright aswell so idk.

 

[scaryshark09]

Pls I can’t be the only one finding this 3u exam easier than the 4u one right…?

its meant to be easier?

 

[qldbulls]

Pls I can’t be the only one finding this 3u exam easier than the 4u one right…?

Isn't it by definition easier?

 

[scaryshark09]

i probs got the same raw mark in 3u and 4u

 

[dumNerd]

Pls I can’t be the only one finding this 3u exam easier than the 4u one right…?

i agree this years 3u final question are harder than this years 4u final questions imo

 

[scaryshark09]

O: most 4u kids I talked to were fine (62-64 raw). My students found it alright aswell so idk.

you must be talking to smart 4u kids. the median 4u kid in the state would've gotten like 48-50 raw

 

[synthesisFR]

Anyone have solutions to the paper
I heard the one uploaded has a few incorrect but idk which ones

 

[Life'sHard]

on a real note tho, is the 2023 paper harder than the 2022 or 2021? Some people are saying its easier, but surely its a bit harder or at least on par with 2022 right?

I just looked through the paper and I still think 2022 was more difficult. Probs just recency bias for the majority. Also sitting an exam live heightens the sense of difficulty felt for each question

 

[011235]

sorry....its cus now my chances of getting into my desired course are quite slim. I need pretty good results, and a 96 to a 92 is quite a big hit to my atar. Sorry if it came across that way, definitely did not mean it like that. My expectations were just high from the good results I achieved at school + past papers. I just did 'terrible' relative to my previous marks. Like a lot worse that I'd hoped...

Just to let you know.. a 96 vs a 92 in extension 1 maths is a rather minimal difference to your ATAR.
The atar contribution (effectively, what your atar would be if extension 1 maths was your only subject), in 2021, was 99.9 for 96, and 99.3 for 92.
Effectively the upshot of this is that extension maths is going to ahve a much lower impact on your atar than you might expect.