Thoughts on Chemistry CSSA paper (1 Viewer)

[eddy11]

Our chem teacher is a marking machine so we got ours back a couple of days ago. Our average was 60 something, i came 1st with 83. Overall the teacher was fairly dissapointed with the results, he expected higher marks from everyone, but i was pretty happy. I dont know where i went down but i think i lost a fair chunk of my marks in the elective for Shipwrecks.

It was a hard test but fair because everyone found it hard, i agree there were alot of equations and calculations, i had a massive cram the day before to learn more content and found that i didn't have to use much of what i'd crammed and was a bit dissapointed that there wasn't an ethanol question and there was a biopolymer instead.

 

[NorthRiversMatt]

Hey eddy. I don't get mine until next week. Where you get your results from?

 

[eddy11]

we didn't get ours externally marked, our "marking machine" teacher just marked them and gave us back our mark, haven't seen my actuall paper, i didn't know they could get externally marked, probably be at least a week maybe two if they have been

 

[sherylbobbins]

Our chem teacher is a marking machine so we got ours back a couple of days ago. Our average was 60 something, i came 1st with 83. Overall the teacher was fairly dissapointed with the results, he expected higher marks from everyone, but i was pretty happy. I dont know where i went down but i think i lost a fair chunk of my marks in the elective for Shipwrecks.

Hahaha our average was 50% with the highest being 72%. At the moment, we're screwed lol

 

[Pwnage101]

post up ur results ppl!!!

 

[proringz]

Got results back today, came 3rd on this paper with 87%, top was 97% and 2nd was 89%. I think average was around 60-something.

 

[timmiitippii]

ughh... our teacher said that the marking criteria from the cssa ppl was really specific and harsh.
got highest with 86% :angry:

like lost marks at the most random parts, i know i lost one due to saying sumthing that was incorrect =P *teacher told me i would of got full marks for the question if i didn't mention the random tidbit*
and also apparently u need to write equations ? for that trend of acid or basic oxides of elements.. so that cost me another mark
then lost 3 marks from that assessing the stupid boy's validity or sum shit *teacher read us the sample answer and it was realli detailed*

so yeh... pretty dissapointed but have to say this exam had some bad questions... however it did wonders for my rankings and gaps between ranks considering second highest was onli 71%
oh wells.. gotta study hsc now

 

[henry08]

Is this the paper which asked you to assess ethanol and its use as a fuel (3 mark questions I believe)?

 

[timmiitippii]

Is this the paper which asked you to assess ethanol and its use as a fuel (3 mark questions I believe)?

hmm i don't think so.. i remember leaving the exam thinking that there was nothing to do with ethanol...
it was the catholic trials paper btw.. cssa or sumthing

 

[dang]

lol damn i got 64% for the cssa paper. Class average was about 40-50% and range was 28%-86%.

 

[shakky15]

hmmm got this back today...

our option was created by our teacher, so was 5 marks worth of core... so just the multiple choice and most of the core was actually CSSA...

for that i got 53/74... but assured a few extra marks there

but for the industrial chem section it was practically all using the K equilibrium constant.. whcih i stuffed up the formula for (for all those qns lol).. so i got 11/25 for industrial - really doesnt indicate my ability there..

overall not too pleased i guess - top mark was 78%.

 

[timmiitippii]

any idea what equivalent raw mark averagely breaks u into a hsc band 6?

 

[Undermyskin]

Got results back today, came 3rd on this paper with 87%, top was 97% and 2nd was 89%. I think average was around 60-something.

Crazy. I only got 95%. The 2nd got 90%. But I think the independent paper this year was much harder! It had some quite strange questions!

 

[lyounamu]

Crazy. I only got 95%. The 2nd got 90%. But I think the independent paper this year was much harder! It had some quite strange questions!

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Don't be hard on yourself. You obviously nailed the paper.

 

[bored of sc]

Highest at our school was 90%.

 

[Taskan]

i got 72%, thought it was quite tough, but fair

 

[steffiiii]

I got 93% and was pretty stoked with that. The next mark below that was like 86% or something and our median was around 74% (i think...).

 

[liamh16]

Our lowest was 22% and highest was 82%
I got 54%.
I was pissed, but it's an improvement, i suppose.
I think the CSSA was hard though... i hope it's not an indication of our HSC marks.

 

[wixxy2348]

class average was 58/94
i got.. *cringes*
37/94

lolfail.