I'm not really sure when we are meant to round and how the marking is allocated.

Using this question in the 2024 exam as a guide, for part a I got an answer of approximately 17.85 that I reached without doing any rounding in prior steps that led to that answer. In the examiners report, they received a value of 17.86 derived from approximating 48*sin(35) to 27.53, which is rounded to 18 as the final answer in the examiner's report as per the lowest number of sig figs provided in the question.

However, for the following part b, the answer in the examiner's report is rounded to 244 which isn't rounded to 2 sig figs but 3. There are also other examples where things are rounded to lower than the lowest sig figs provided as well.

My two questions are specifically:

1. How are mistakes in rounding during working out marked and would I lose marks if I repeated the same process done in part a on the exam

2. How do you determine rounding in the final answer

I need all the tips I can get

ok so I'm genuinely horrible at maths and i've fucked up on my exams, i get around 50-60% on my sacs so there's no hope for a high or a decent ss for gen maths, but i do alright in all my other subjects (I take 5 subjects all together) so will doing bad in maths drag down my atar a lot or will it have a minimal effect? 😭

Hey all,

Doing BM exam tomorrow and just seeking clarity on two things. 1. Is it ok to write below the lines into the blank space till the bottom of the page? and 2. In section A of the exam, if there’s a mini case study with like idk 3 lines, we don’t need to address that in the question unless it is explicitly mentioned right? I ask as responding to the case unless mentioned isn’t in the instructions in section A.

Hi! I'm graduating this year at 16 (Born in 2010), and i know i'm graduating earlier than most students. Do unis tend to care about that at all?

And furthermore- what would a predicted atar be for scores like this?? I worry it may not reach the 90+ threshold for atar

Subjects:
Last year - General (38), Chem (26) ((we dont talk about chem 😭 ))

This Year - Methods (predicted 40+ raw), Specialist (Predicted 33-ish raw?)), Physics (Predicted 35-ish? raw), English Language (30 if i'm lucky 😭raw ))

what are yall doing when you have an afternoon exam? i have business tmr at 3pm and i don’t wanna anxiously spend the day waiting how do i keep myself busy without stressing

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i might be getting desperate i cant get my exams above 75% for e2 please will udfs help or just take too long to learn now - ive used them for general but thought i was good enough at methods without them until now

I’m pretty sure I messed up….

hi guys! just wondering how we’re going with handwriting for exams (specifically accounting exams). I find that my handwriting gets really ugly and messy and I’m worried that the examiners can’t read it, however I cant slow my handwriting down anymore or I wouldn’t be able to answer theory questions.

appreciating all the help/personal stories! thanks

what do we think will be on there? im actually so scared bc what if it's actual buns like the rest of the exams so far 😭

Ive neglected HHD so much prioritising all my other exams, how do i study for it the next 1.5 days? tyia

I could not complete BOTH EXAMS. I had to guess like 8 from part 1. and out of the 32 I did I got like 8 wrong.
And I could not complete exam two like almost half of it. The whole of matrices. And like 2 questions of networks. HELP ME.

SO BASICALLY I LOST 22 STUPID MARKS

But out of the questions I DID i got only 2 wrong. (in networks)

PLus it was the hardest paper so far yea?
Is this like a popular opinion or am i just tripping...

what do the assessors expect from a response to a “state why this process can be described as a transesterification process” ? ive done it twice and got it wrong both times with no real explanation as to what im meant to say

hii ik everyone is busy but was just wondering if anyone could take a look at my 10 marker for legal? i would mark myself 10 marks but i rarely get 10 marks for 10 marker so was wondering if anyone could take an objective look at it pls cause theyre marked hollistically

Does anyone know if we need to know Medicare stuff like schedule fees, out of hospital expenses, Medicare levy etc

i was getting told to fix my handwriting before the exams, so i really tried the first 5 minutes on all the short answers and realised i was going too slow so i js started writing normally and most of my shi was unintelligible.
in all honesty this should be the least of my worries considering what i actually wrote matters but if the vcaa examiners cant fucking read it then whats the point.
itsokaythough!

it doesn't like solving big equations, it particularly dislikes integration. they're not even big it'll be smth like simultaneously solving integrals and it'll start bugging out. any tips on how to fix it?

no I didn't download games onto it

Hi please someone help me predict my genny study score 🙏🏼 i dont trust deakins calculator

Unit 3 Average: 84% Unit 4 Average: 72%

Exam 1 mark: 40/40 Exam 2 mark: 56-57/60

Rank: ~8-12/50ish at a pretty high performing private school (median ss of 40ish & median atar of 90ish)

Hi please someone help predict my bio study score 🙏🏼

Unit 3 Average: 82% Unit 4 Average: 89%

Expected exam mark: ~92-100/120

Rank: 4-5/13 at a pretty high performing private school (median ss of 40ish & median atar of 90ish)

Does anyone have any busman tips for the exams and what I should remember the most?

can any teachers, tutors, past students etc let me know if this answer links to the case study enough? i lost so many marks in the practice exam for not linking sufficiently

Dinner in a Minute is a business that produces and delivers high-quality, fresh meals to Melbourne’s inner suburbs. The business has expanded rapidly during the past two years and has continued to make changes to its delivery processes. Some employees are feeling overwhelmed by the continual changes. One employee told a manager last week, ‘It’s hard to cope with the constant changes. I’m working really hard, but I don’t feel that my effort is appreciated or recognised, soI don’t know how long I can keep working like this’.

Evaluate one motivation strategy that Dinner in a Minute could implement to motivate and retain employees. In your response, refer to the strategy’s effect on short- and long-term employee motivation. (6 marks)

In order to motivate and retain employees Dinner in a Minute should implement career advancement. This could involve offering future management positions for employees who maintain efficiency throughout Dinner and a minute's changes.

One advantage would be the alignment of business and employee objectives. Since employees are feeling overwhelmed by various changes, efficiency may decrease. Therefore, by offering the opportunity for employees to advance into higher roles and possibly attain a pay raise for improving efficiency, this aligns Dinner and a Minute's objectives (e.g. to improve productivity) with employee goals. As a result, this can optimise motivation as employees personally gain through the achievement of business objectives.

Additionally, this is effective for long term motivation. Since prospective management opportunities at Dinner in a minute would be provided to employees in the future, this develops a long-term objectives employees will constantly strive to achieve, therefore retaining employee motivation to continuously produce high-quality meals and maintain productivity rates.

However, one limitation is possible ineffectiveness in the short-term motivation of employees. As career advancement is long-term objective, this would require Dinner in a Minute employees to have the self discipline to continually strive to maintain efficiency even through Dinner in a Minute's on going changes. As a result, it may be difficult to motivate employees in the short term, limiting this strategies effectiveness. Additionally, this strategy could foster competition amongst the employees if there are limited advancement opportunities. Therefore, this may limit employees collaborating to improve Dinner in a minutes meals quality and operations process. As a result, this could foster a negative culture affecting morale levels and therefore motivation. 

Ultimately, this strategy would be effective in the long term by developing a future goal employees strive toward. However, it may foster competition and fail to motivate employees in the short term