NSW Year 12 (leaving) maths exam

[Tigers!]

NSW (New SOUTH WALES) had 60,00 students earlier this week did their Maths Standard exam. Apparently there was a lot of chatter about how hard and confusing it was .
I did my Victorian equivalent over 40 years ago.
Looking at the given problems they did not appear particularly difficult.
A few comments
- I did not do the Statistics question as it has been 30 years since I looked at stats.
- A lot of finance based questions

I did the questions shown (not all exam questions were shown, just the controversial ones) (excl. stats).

Overall I do not see what the fuss is all about.

What do you think about the questions and the level required?

 

[steve_bank]

American Scholastic Aptitude Test sample exam.

https://satsuite.collegeboard.org/media/pdf/sat-practice-test-1-digital.pdf

 

[Bomb#20]

NSW (New SOUTH WALES) had 60,00 students earlier this week did their Maths Standard exam. Apparently there was a lot of chatter about how hard and confusing it was .

Well, it's a bad sign when the people designing a math exam can't even tell the difference between singular and plural.

 

[Spacetime Inhabitant]

I specialized in maths in my last two years at school, decades ago, and those test questions seem rather elementary. Economics was a separate subject, and some of those questions belong there (though they are simple).
The SAT ones seem pretty simple as well, though many of them are rather verbose. I imagine the main problem for students doing this test is the issue of time.

 

[bigfield]

There's no way those are "controversial" questions.

https://educationstandards.nsw.edu.au/wps/portal/nesa/resource-finder/hsc-exam-papers/2024/mathematics-standard-2024-hsc-exam-pack

 

[bilby]

NSW (New SOUTH WALES) had 60,00 students earlier this week did their Maths Standard exam. Apparently there was a lot of chatter about how hard and confusing it was .

Well, it's a bad sign when the people designing a math exam can't even tell the difference between singular and plural.

That's covered in the Advanced Mathematics Programme, (known in the US as the Advanced Mathematic Program).

 

[Tigers!]

I specialized in maths in my last two years at school, decades ago, and those test questions seem rather elementary. Economics was a separate subject, and some of those questions belong there (though they are simple).
The SAT ones seem pretty simple as well, though many of them are rather verbose. I imagine the main problem for students doing this test is the issue of time.

I thought the questions given were a bit elementary.

 

[Tigers!]

There's no way those are "controversial" questions.

https://educationstandards.nsw.edu.au/wps/portal/nesa/resource-finder/hsc-exam-papers/2024/mathematics-standard-2024-hsc-exam-pack

I will try out some of them.

 

[Bomb#20]

NSW (New SOUTH WALES) had 60,00 students earlier this week did their Maths Standard exam. Apparently there was a lot of chatter about how hard and confusing it was .

Well, it's a bad sign when the people designing a math exam can't even tell the difference between singular and plural.

That's covered in the Advanced Mathematics Programme, (known in the US as the Advanced Mathematic Program).

I take it you lot call Brisbane a "metropoli"?

 

[Tigers!]

NSW (New SOUTH WALES) had 60,00 students earlier this week did their Maths Standard exam. Apparently there was a lot of chatter about how hard and confusing it was .

Well, it's a bad sign when the people designing a math exam can't even tell the difference between singular and plural.

That's covered in the Advanced Mathematics Programme, (known in the US as the Advanced Mathematic Program).

I take it you lot call Brisbane a "metropoli"?

Brisbane is the place I would go to if I wanted to go back 20 years in time.

 

[bilby]

NSW (New SOUTH WALES) had 60,00 students earlier this week did their Maths Standard exam. Apparently there was a lot of chatter about how hard and confusing it was .

Well, it's a bad sign when the people designing a math exam can't even tell the difference between singular and plural.

That's covered in the Advanced Mathematics Programme, (known in the US as the Advanced Mathematic Program).

I take it you lot call Brisbane a "metropoli"?

Brisbane is barely a metropo.