Solutions to the 2007 HSC exam (1 Viewer)

[buchanan]

Solutions are up for 2007:

Terry Lee's 4 unit:

http://www.hsccoaching.com/Resources/2007 Ext2.pdf

Terry Lee's 3 unit:

http://www.hsccoaching.com/Resources/2007 Ext1.pdf

itute's 4 unit:

http://www.itute.com/mathline/nsw_bos_maths_ext2_sol2007.pdf

if you are interested.

 

[Dumsum]

Hmm, dunno if it's just my 2 years at uni coming through but it seems to be getting easier by the year. Well, maybe not that much easier than last year's. Question 8 had some very easy marks, which is disappointing really...

 

[Trebla]

Looking at this year's and last year's exam as well as the new syllabus about to be put into place in the near future, it looks like Extension 2 Maths is getting dumbed down....

 

[wakakak]

Hey how abt solutions to Maths ext 1, 2007??!

 

[buchanan]

itute's solutions are up now for ext 2:

http://www.itute.com/mathline/nsw_bos_maths_ext2_sol2007.pdf

 

[buchanan]

Looking at this year's and last year's exam as well as the new syllabus about to be put into place in the near future, it looks like Extension 2 Maths is getting dumbed down....

Good teachers will not allow the amateurs at the Board of Studies to tell them what to teach.

 

[buchanan]

Terry Lee's 3 unit:
http://www.hsccoaching.com/Resources/2007 Ext1.pdf

 

[tywebb]

the mansw solutions committee will be on december 1 (same day as the 2007 putnam!)

if you want to go on the committee and/or make a submission, fill out and send the attached form.

 

[tywebb]

what do you guys think of neville weber?

how about rod yager?

whose papers do you think are better?

answer this in the context of a decree by gordon stanley that within the lifetime of a syllabus, exams from year to year should be of a similar level of difficulty.

 

[tywebb]

it seems to me that the current examination committee is deliberately breaching the Board's 6th Principle for Setting HSC Examinations in a Standards-Referenced Framework:

"The level of difficulty of a paper should be maintained consistently from year to year."

- http://www.boardofstudies.nsw.edu.au/bulletins/pdf_doc/bbv8_9.pdf (page 7)

 

[buchanan]

Here are the 3 unit and 4 unit papers (which went online today):

http://www.boardofstudies.nsw.edu.au/hsc_exams/exam-papers-2007/pdf_doc/maths-ex1-07.pdf

http://www.boardofstudies.nsw.edu.au/hsc_exams/exam-papers-2007/pdf_doc/maths-ex2-07.pdf

 

[vafa]

Only teachers who have PHD in mathematics should be teaching the 4 unit course.

that is what Rod Yager said to me when I asked what he thinks about the level of 4 unit in NSW.

 

[Dumsum]

PhD? bloody hell

Surely an undergrad major in maths is sufficient (or perhaps honours). I think there's a big problem in that a lot of the maths teachers out there haven't actually studied any mathematics at a university level and so suffer the same naivety as high school students with regard to fundamental concepts.