Recent content by Weyoun

SpiceGirl, That's exactly my beef with the science syllabus. Why should 'communication' of ideas be the primary assessment criterion? There is so much MORE to science than communication. Yes, I can acknowledge that scientists possess notoriously bad communication skills (myself included), but...

I think that so long as whatever you wrote evaluates to the correct answer then you'll get the mark. Since 'simple' is a relative term, they must apply the same rule to all extents to maintain consistency

That raises another question - what is the primary outcome of the syllabus? To test our understanding of these concepts, or the ability to answer specific questions? Depending on the case, either method of approaching mathematics is acceptable. While I most certainly wish that there was a way...

Nope The displacement of the particle from its original position was just over 10. It's maximum height, since it was launched with an initial vertical displacement of 6, was just over 16.... Don't worry, I made the same mistake too... Nonetheless, I think it's the only mistake I made...

I don't find either course an overdeveloped memory test at all... infact, it's quite the opposite. Spice Girl raised a valid point about science. Often, the theory used to describe a particular behavioural pattern is too complex to use in an exam situation, so we simply remember it - I...

I really don't see what your problem is. Since the Simplified binomial is identically equal to its corresponding expansion, we can equate coefficients, integrate and differentiate without any problem WHATSOEVER. Since n is merely a constant (as are the combination coefficients of the binomial...

can someone please post the CSSA trial if the holding period has passed? I'd like to have a look at it, if only as a yardstick as to what to expect. I got 77% in my trial, which I was pretty disappointed in, considering I usually get 95% :/

93% for the trial, though I don't do 3-unit. The name Masumi sounds familiar to me, I think she was the one who wrote our paper. Ours certainly wasn't the independent

hang on a second... Was question 8 of the CSSA exam an induction proof for x^2n or something like that? I'm not sure exactly which paper we use, as all of my teachers re-label the tests as Armidale High School exams (which I'm sure is an act of gross plagiarism :)). I just seem to remeber...

Yes ben, our class uses some notes from Physics in context. For our option topic we're using copied notes from that book instead of macmillan for the simple reason that we find the latter vague, and medical physics wasn't included in Jacaranda. I have always found their stuff comprehensive and...

Oh god... and I thought the Maths Extension 2 inequalities were difficult... :)

heh, I can see that as a connection between many subjects actually, the maths exams in particular :) Prove that n > 0 for all positive, nonzero integers n

sorry if my approach seems a little simplistic, but that's how I see it. If we can work off foundations (Michelson-morley experiment, the speed of light is constant for all observers) and derive an expression for something else, I'm perfectly satisfied with it. I haven't just rope learnt the...

The logic behind an object contracting in length when travelling at significant fractions of c has more to do with the derived expression than anything else. True, something *may* look longer when travelling fast, but this is subjective to the observable degree. This is not how length...

from what I can gather, it is undoubtedly better to have an indepth understanding of as much as humanly possible. Questions in past HSCs have often been tricks, in which the slightest mistake could mean the loss of several marks. Our class primarily uses the Jacaranda texts, and Macmillan as a...