The 2004 HSC - Mathematics Extension 2 Paper (2 Viewers)

[withoutaface]

easiest test in last 10yrs

Not quite, some of the ones in the mid 90s were a bit easier.

 

[nike55]

agree it was damn easy...i mean what was hard about it??..hopefully i can get about 110 im sure ppl will get perfect scores tho

 

[fush]

i fucked it...

 

[grimreaper]

easiest test in last 10yrs

agreed... I'd say question 8 was only up to question 6/7 questions. However some of the early questions were harder than usual (eg the conic one)

 

[mojako]

agree it was damn easy...i mean what was hard about it??..hopefully i can get about 110 im sure ppl will get perfect scores tho

a friend in my school only couldn't do a 1-mark question

Hah, and i can't believe they repeated a past year's question in Q8.

which year???
which part? a or b?

 

[mazza_728]

completely screwed.. im expecting to come last in the state... i went terrible!

 

[lamchopz]

i fucked it...

so did i...

maybe its me but i thought this exam was harder than the past few years.
there was a couple of giveaway questions....but i hope that the guys who's been celebrating is only a minority who will drag my mark up.

 

[Veck]

i fucked it...

haha don't worry man

I got about 70-75 /120 I reckon

so fuck you all

I know it's not great, but hey, I hope it's good enough to dux my school [in maths]

and besides, you guys are all geniouses/nerds anyway
there's no factoring in of the people who do badly

hmm... this isn't that comforting

any idea what my mark will scale to?

 

[derek_]

half my answers were fudged to the max.

 

[fush]

haha hey van, u might have some competition for dux....
but 75/120..surely that would be scaled to high band e3 or even e4

 

[nike55]

id be inclinded to say 75 out of this paper would be low band 5, the difficulty wasnt there

 

[Jebu]

i got a fair bit of the first 4-5 questions, then 6 was pretty tough, and 7-8 i didnt really touch. But I did ok, to anyone like myself dont get too down, these guys are at the top of the subject, and you need to compare yourselves to the middle

 

[QuaCk]

hmmm,
i'd say a raw of 70% which ain't much considering you guys thought little of it :/
hoping that's enough for an e4 though.

 

[kow_dude]

last year's paper was easier

 

[amandaz]

some bits were pretty easy...like Q1 n da circle properties
couldnt do Q7 or 8...way too hard

did ne1 get the induction question out??

 

[Shuter]

Honestly I think I got about 30-40 raw mark.

Bah.

 

[Rorix]

induction: use the assumption and the first part

you have k^2 + n(k+1)/n1 + n(k+1)/n2 + .... n(k+1)/nk + n(k+1)/n(k+1) + n1/n(k+1) + etc. etc.
then group n(k+1)/n2 + n2/n(k+1) etc.
thats >= two from part a
so LHS >= k^2 + 1 + 2 + 2 + 2 +....2 (+2 k times)
>= k^2 + 2k + 1

 

[nike55]

they virtually gave you the answer for the induction question in the first bit..it was simple

 

[Dougie]

for those of us who can't physical get over close to 120, these guys really take ur confidence away!!!!

 

[Teleph]

id be inclinded to say 75 out of this paper would be low band 5, the difficulty wasnt there

You got be coming from another planet...the 1999 and 2002 test was easier then this one. I got the state average for 1999 and it was a 75 (highest ever average!) so ye in 4u getting above state average will be a high E3 or low E4