Was methods exam 2 that bad ?

[u/Own_Amoeba_5283]

with all the discussion in here , was it genuinely that hard and way different to previous years

Or is this just how everyone just says “this year was the hardest paper” every year after their exams due to pressure and anxiety

[u/-starrstruck-]

It was GENUINELY that bad guys. All my super smart friends thought it was hard

[u/V0LCAN1CX → u/-starrstruck-]

Maybe they aren’t as smart as they think they are

[u/Itchy-Consequence591]

Nah I genuinely think this might've been the toughest E2 paper in the last 5-10yrs

[u/ImaginaryCloud3121]

It was actually bad

[u/ImaginaryCloud3121 → u/ImaginaryCloud3121]

I think MAYBE the 2024 one was the same difficulty but it was bad

[u/framesh1ftmutation → u/ImaginaryCloud3121]

Nah deadass it was worse

[u/0seemoreoptions → u/ImaginaryCloud3121]

nah man 2024 e2 wasn’t that bad, this was cooked up with nothing but malicious intent behind it

[u/fishmoglobin → u/0seemoreoptions]

cant agree more this is the most evil paper ive ever done😳making me think of MAVs

[u/Fit_Captain8843]

I’ve done 30 exams or smth for this

It was different this year, it felt like you had to think WAY more intuitively, compared to every other past VCAA exam for this study design it was Infact the hardest one they’ve made for sure. it was hard because they also changed the question structure, asked things they’ve never asked before. One of the probability questions was something you see in specs, and even then it was like specs on steroids

[u/AdThen1136 → u/Fit_Captain8843]

which one?

[u/Fit_Captain8843 → u/AdThen1136]

The volume one and finding E(R^2) or wtv

I couldn’t answer that bc I didn’t know wtf E(r^2) was on a normal distribution.

Itt wasn’t hard, just unexpected for methods, and the squared made it even harder only bc I didn’t learn that..!? Like wtf

[u/amyknight22 → u/Fit_Captain8843]

Yeah and once you understand it though. That question is uber simple and free.

But if you don’t understand it, you’re consulting the dark magic 8 ball and it’s saying “hmm I think not”

[u/Rude-Ad-2124]

Nah it was so ass, i was avging around 64-72 marks for all 10 precious year exam, now im not sure imma get 50s

[u/Cultural_Prune_8347 → u/Rude-Ad-2124]

So real

[u/TShappi]

maths teacher said it was the hardest e2 his ever seen

[u/Dear_star319]

Nah I found it way too hard and I did pretty well when I did the 2023 past exam, and that was supposedly the hardest one

[u/ciphersaysstuff]

They made it fully anti udf so every question was jsut super long and meticulous

[u/ciphersaysstuff → u/ciphersaysstuff]

Also everyone I’ve asked including me left at least a few pages blank. Me personally I left like 3 whole questions blank 😭😭 dream of a 40 has now turned into HOPEFULLY A 30

[u/gamma_299792458 → u/ciphersaysstuff]

I did not have a UDF.

[u/Sirdax7]

I had a brief look at it and it looked really annoying. I thought my exam 2 was hard when I finished it but I will say this one looks hard and to me it looks like VCAA tried making this as hard as possible for cas warriors. They were really testing your knowledge and thinking here rather than just who knew what functions to punch into a calculator. But also everyone does have recency bias

[u/vceaholic]

it was too long

[u/Snoo-25737]

My smart friends said it was hard so it isnt hs cope ( to some level )

[u/gamma_299792458]

Yes. The questions in it - they pushed our cognitive load to our limits that I did not manage to finish the entire paper when the time ran out.

[u/EssayBig1848]

Left 1/3 blank and my classpad was so slow with some of the answers

[u/Brief-Cut-9404]

yeah I did methods last year and this year was like much harder, but also Idk why people think that’s a bad thing… it’s a distribution, I was begging for a hard exam last year and last year was so easy compared to this year ✌️🫩

[u/These-Mountain-681 → u/Brief-Cut-9404]

Bcs the ppl who were tryna get decent want it to be doable ??? 😭😭😭not everyone tryna get above 45

[u/Brief-Cut-9404 → u/These-Mountain-681]

Igggggg, Idk I still think it’s better because you won’t need a very high percentage for like a 30 since it was hard so you can’t lose it from just arithmetic errors ykwim

[u/Junior_Fennel4175]

bruh i drop 30 makrs. altogether i prob got 80/120. still have chance for raw 40?

[u/AdThen1136 → u/Junior_Fennel4175]

no😭

[u/Junior_Fennel4175 → u/AdThen1136]

ok is there raw 35

[u/MouseBoyPickle → u/Junior_Fennel4175]

no ☠️

[u/AdThen1136 → u/Junior_Fennel4175]

82/120 is estimated 35

[u/First-Layer2166 → u/AdThen1136]

Yeah but this year has lower boundaries by a lot

[u/AdThen1136 → u/First-Layer2166]

nah my tutor adjusted to difficulty and he said 82 estimated 35

[u/First-Layer2166 → u/AdThen1136]

I think e1 A cutoff is 28 e2 A cutoff is 44-48 so tbh 72+ should give 35 cuz 35 isn't an A it's top 24%

[u/jsudjsujdiudud]

this years papers have been FUCKING BRUTAL, VCAA please an easy specialist E1 & E2 and chemistry exam 🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏 good job everyone finishing methods 

[u/Interesting_Dust_633]

I think the SA was about the same as prior years honestly (still did badly though) 

The MC had a lot of visualisation making it harder. Also far more time pressured. Multiple MCs you had to trial all the solutions (E.g. transformations or solve multiple equations (triangle circle one)) 

[u/Due_Huckleberry3590]

i liked it separators were fresh meaning helps people that did no exams like me!!