Oxford University Mathematician takes Australian High School Maths Exam

Поділитися
Вставка
  • Опубліковано 11 кві 2024
  • University of Oxford Mathematician Dr Tom Crawford sits the HSC Mathematics Standard paper taken by high school students in Australia.
    The paper in the video is the 2023 version of the exam from the New South Wales region. You can download the exam paper and mark scheme for yourself at the links below.
    2023 Standard Maths: tomrocksmaths.files.wordpress...
    Mark Scheme: tomrocksmaths.files.wordpress...
    The exam paper and all questions contained within are the property of the New South Wales Government. Material is used under a 'fair use' policy for educational purposes.
    Produced by Dr Tom Crawford at the University of Oxford. Tom is Public Engagement Lead at the Oxford University Department of Continuing Education: www.conted.ox.ac.uk/profiles/...
    Watch Tom take other Exams on the designated playlist here: • Exams
    A-level Maths: • Oxford University Math...
    A-level Further Maths: • Oxford University Math...
    GCSE Maths: • Oxford University Math...
    GCSE Further Maths: • Oxford University Math...
    SAT Maths: • Oxford University Math...
    Cambridge University Admissions Test (STEP Paper) Part 1: • Oxford University Math...
    Cambridge University Admissions Test (STEP Paper) Part 2: • Oxford University Math...
    German Maths Abitur: • Oxford University Math...
    IB Maths: • Oxford University Math...
    AP Calculus: • Oxford University Math...
    For more maths content check out Tom's website tomrocksmaths.com/
    You can also follow Tom on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram @tomrocksmaths.
    / tomrocksmaths
    / tomrocksmaths
    / tomrocksmaths
    Get your Tom Rocks Maths merchandise here: www.beautifulequation.com/col...

КОМЕНТАРІ • 367

  • @TomRocksMaths
    @TomRocksMaths  2 місяці тому +15

    Watch Tom take exams from around the world on the designated playlist here: ua-cam.com/play/PLMCRxGutHqfm3t0IVJabEab6OasV9WLrl.html

    • @DjastinFaiht
      @DjastinFaiht 2 місяці тому

      Omg, Tom… are you flipping us off on the thumbnail??? 🙈🙉🙊

    • @SlyNicolai
      @SlyNicolai Місяць тому

      @TomRocksMaths I have a serious question ! Why don’t you change your expander to an ears plug ore tunnel ?

    • @TheAussieLeo
      @TheAussieLeo Місяць тому +4

      I believe you did the "Maths in Society" version. You did the equivalent of the O level, not the A level.

    • @steinanderson9849
      @steinanderson9849 Місяць тому +4

      Hello Tom sir, please do a maths extension 2 exam - this is the top HSC math level in NSW

    • @mariavanwyk3863
      @mariavanwyk3863 21 день тому +2

      Take the actual hardest test and let us know than 😂😂😂😂😂

  • @noahhosking495
    @noahhosking495 2 місяці тому +572

    Standard 1 math is the basic course in NSW, the most advanced high school math course is math extension 2

    • @Ken-er9cq
      @Ken-er9cq Місяць тому +39

      It basically covers mainly things that students should have covered by year 10. They are things that people should know. Unfortunately I’ve heard that the raw score is 30%. It really is painful for people who need basic maths, for example builders doing quotes, who have trouble with things like areas.

    • @jimybobjim
      @jimybobjim Місяць тому +22

      Yea it goes standard 1, standard 2, advanced, extension 1 (you take this at the same time as advanced) and extension 2 (only for year 12 students)

    • @TsarNicholas2nd
      @TsarNicholas2nd Місяць тому +9

      @@jimybobjimsome schools has Numeracy which is even more basic

    • @dat581
      @dat581 Місяць тому +6

      Back when I did Year 12 in NSW (1996) we had 2 Unit Maths, 3 Unit was more advanced and 4 Unit was the highest level. There were two levels below 2 Unit but I can't remember what they were. If you did 4 Unit you did the 2 and 3 Unit classes. 2 was the base with 3&4 as addons. I wonder if much of the content has changed?

    • @Ken-er9cq
      @Ken-er9cq Місяць тому +8

      @@dat581 I think they had Maths in Society, or as students described it Maths in Space.

  • @horseios3655
    @horseios3655 2 місяці тому +433

    Can you please do HSC Maths extension 2. its far more difficult than this and I think we would all love to see you attempt it

    • @haythamibraheem589
      @haythamibraheem589 Місяць тому +9

      Plus one 😊

    • @StoicTheGeek
      @StoicTheGeek Місяць тому +9

      For sure. Complex numbers, more interesting integration, it’s all good. (Assuming the syllabus hasn’t changed in 35 years, lol)

    • @vincent4805
      @vincent4805 Місяць тому +5

      Yep, we do learn calculus and complex numbers in Aus

    • @chrisk283
      @chrisk283 Місяць тому +2

      Could be a stretch for him 😂😂

    • @MdJabed-zm6bf
      @MdJabed-zm6bf 29 днів тому +1

      HSC😂.Do IAL FURTHER MATH 1 2 3 S2 S3 M2 M3.Then you will understand what actually math means.

  • @reggrunow1460
    @reggrunow1460 Місяць тому +54

    This is the most basic maths standard that kids can take in NSW. That is, the kids who don’t do well at, or have no need for difficult maths.

  • @mcmontage6151
    @mcmontage6151 Місяць тому +143

    bro flipped us off in the thumbnail thinking we wouldn't notice

    • @goldCrystalhaze
      @goldCrystalhaze Місяць тому +3

      Thank God you also noticed, because I thought my mind was dirty 😉

    • @ronniexpro
      @ronniexpro Місяць тому +1

      @@goldCrystalhaze same

    • @jsphl.yt_21
      @jsphl.yt_21 Місяць тому +1

      LMAOOO

    • @Rose_Castle
      @Rose_Castle 15 днів тому

      Literally has a tattoo pointing too it as well.

  • @IdontknowV
    @IdontknowV 2 місяці тому +164

    Please take the VCE Exams like the Mathematical Methods 3/4 exam and the Specialist Mathematics 3/4 exam; they’re the tough ones.

    • @qntonio
      @qntonio Місяць тому +18

      i wanna see him do a spesh exam

    • @antonc81
      @antonc81 Місяць тому +7

      Methods is easy. Spesh is still kinda easy .. just more interesting.

    • @Saaaammmm
      @Saaaammmm Місяць тому +12

      @@antonc81 we cant all be that smart anton 🙃

    • @antonc81
      @antonc81 Місяць тому +17

      @@Saaaammmm to be honest I think the problem is the quality of maths teaching in Australia. Especially in earlier years. Smart people graduate from school thinking maths is about committing arbitrary processes to memory by rote, leather than the application of logic and reasoning, or creative problem solving. They have this belief because of the way maths was taught to them.

    • @weiweimangaming6209
      @weiweimangaming6209 19 днів тому +2

      nuh uh math extension 2 > spesh

  • @DADADRTR
    @DADADRTR 17 днів тому +47

    In 1982 I didn't pass this one, but now I'm a senior electrical engineer, managing a diverse team for a major organisation in Canberra.
    For anyone doubting themselves (imposter syndrome?) it's never too late to learn & realise your potential; particularly if you're AuDHD like me.

    • @wobblysauce
      @wobblysauce 12 днів тому

      And just like a NSW test... there is no Melbourne.

    • @tf-lv4zu
      @tf-lv4zu 22 години тому

      lol managing a team doesn't require too much maths

    • @DADADRTR
      @DADADRTR 14 годин тому

      @@tf-lv4zu yeah, you're right, as long as you keep up to date with EIRP, G/T, RAM & MTBF calculations to maintain understanding of the teams work, it's plain sailing; like riding a bike or doing fourier transforms. 😉

  • @ryanclayton6496
    @ryanclayton6496 22 дні тому +9

    This isn't our top Maths. This is the easy math

  • @ragaloft
    @ragaloft 2 місяці тому +67

    Tom,
    As a father of two children, one of which is about to sit this standard maths exam (the other will do the advanced version), I couldn’t agree more that the real life practicality of the questions shines through. Despite the apparent simplicity of this lower level exam, I feel there are (sadly) many adults that lack these life skills. Great video. Thanks 🙏

    • @Pax.Alotin
      @Pax.Alotin Місяць тому +1

      Speaking of real life ---
      Very annoying how there is a gap between the numbers --
      Also pretty hopeless - how the so called 'bank statement' doesn't make it clear - which are debits vs deposits
      Nor can you tell if the 'interest' is a charge accrued on the debt or to be treated as interest gained. That's why bank statements have THREE columns not Two. ----- Grrrrrrrrr

  • @amazinggrace5692
    @amazinggrace5692 Місяць тому +24

    Told my husband I was watching an Oxford professor take an Australian math test and he was having a blast. He understood why it was fun ….for me lol.

  • @rhettboy1
    @rhettboy1 Місяць тому +16

    Glad to see you did the one with simpler mathematics but better real world applicability. For the other end of the spectrum it would be fun to see you work through the extension 2 paper

  • @srinath6247
    @srinath6247 29 днів тому +4

    Never have I ever seen a video that required the need of using my brain for an hour and 20 mins. This was my first.

  • @michaelturk9625
    @michaelturk9625 Місяць тому +25

    Hi Tom. Nicely done. This paper is the lowest level of (effectively) 6 levels. Your deduction was correct, this paper is for students who are not undertaking tertiary studies, and insufficient for vocational/post-secondary education in trades or occupations requiring more than minimal mathematics. By the way, did you notice a hint of interstate rivalry in Q15? Hint: Which state's capital city is missing!
    As a matter of background all NSW high school maths students are expected to be proficient in the use of an approved calculator, (usually a Casio fx..AU model). Also students are usually encouraged to look at the end of the paper to use a supplied formula sheet (quite short for this exam, but four pages for more advanced).
    When I first started coaching NSW HSC students after school in mathematics, I was very surprised by the variety (and complexity of more advanced papers) of the discrete mathematics as in my high school, undergraduate and postgraduate study I only came across PERT/CPM networks for use in project management.

    • @seajay20
      @seajay20 19 днів тому

      Yeah, no Melbourne (but as another city of rivalry, ie Adelaide vs Melbourne re Aussie Rules Football, etc), no big deal. But I was perplexed that the flights to various capital cities wasn't actually "real world". Yet, not having Melbourne could mess that up. It wasn't long ago that we couldn't fly from Adelaide to Hobart (well Tasmania in general), and had to fly from Melbourne... although Launceston was the place I had to fly to when on a tourist bus trip around Tasmania, starting & finishing at the top of the island state.

    • @Rose_Castle
      @Rose_Castle 15 днів тому

      I assume it was due to Qantas cutting their number of domestic flights in favour of long haul international :P

  • @josephcarney295
    @josephcarney295 Місяць тому +10

    standard 1 is the lowest level of maths offered in NSW. standard 2, advanced, extension 1, and extension 2 are all courses in NSW more difficult than standard 1, as an extension 2 student, I would love to see you attempt a past exam, the last question is always notoriously difficult.

  • @skyro3420
    @skyro3420 2 місяці тому +35

    Please try either the Advanced paper or Extension 2 for this Australian HSC math paper!

    • @samsam21amb
      @samsam21amb 6 днів тому

      *NSW, all the other states have different exams and different names, in qld, we call it the Methods, General, or Specialist paper

  • @fi77er
    @fi77er Місяць тому +7

    To find 10% GST (goods and services tax) simply divide the price by 11.

  • @Dcmazters
    @Dcmazters 2 місяці тому +33

    Hey Tom, if you’re going to do an Australian exam either do specialist math or extension 2

    • @davidliu3463
      @davidliu3463 Місяць тому

      which one is harder?

    • @sjholmesbrown
      @sjholmesbrown Місяць тому

      @@davidliu3463 About the same. Different states (Vic / NSW) but similar material.

    • @superDavid12341
      @superDavid12341 Місяць тому +7

      @@sjholmesbrownhave to disagree - it’s quite well known that extension 2 is significantly harder (though the marks scale to be about the same)

    • @vezei1857
      @vezei1857 Місяць тому +2

      @@davidliu3463 definitely extension 2, though it's really just a tiny amount of content with extremely unfair questions at times and you are allocated like 3 minutes to solve them.

  • @hamedaw4610
    @hamedaw4610 Місяць тому +28

    Please try VCE 2023 Math Specialists Exam, this is the hardest Math exam in all of Australia. The one you completed was standard - basic math!

    • @mountain2366
      @mountain2366 25 днів тому +4

      extension 2 is harder

    • @ethanslatter8331
      @ethanslatter8331 24 дні тому +4

      They are the same thing - they just have different names in different states.

    • @joceelee
      @joceelee 14 днів тому

      Some Australian schools have the International Baccalaureate, so there is a more difficult exam.

    • @jamieb2759
      @jamieb2759 6 днів тому +1

      @@joceelee HSC Ext 2 is more difficult than IB HL

  • @KoiMorris
    @KoiMorris Місяць тому +5

    Great job on that exam! I loved the practicality of the questions in the exam s well. All math exam papers at the end of high school level education should be like that, especially if one is not going to university afterwards. That exam shows students things that could actually come up in their life and that they may need to work out for themselves. That exam was the easiest one I've seen you do.

  • @braynaguilar8567
    @braynaguilar8567 Місяць тому +4

    Interesting choice, I would have thought you'd have a go at the extension 1 or 2 papers; nonetheless, still great to see Australia being represented in this channel!

  • @mc_lara2230
    @mc_lara2230 13 днів тому +1

    I did the australian NSW HSC advanced maths exam. I was convinced (as so many others are) that advanced maths would open so many more opportunities for me. Advanced maths subjects and higher did not have the same practical applications of maths as standard did.
    Im now studying Marine Biology and have rarely come across basic maths in my degree. I woe the loss of practical maths i never learnt. So many life lessons and everyday math concepts i was never taught :(
    Of course i have the ability to figure these things out for myself, but i would have greatly appreciated having been introduced to these topics during school

  • @JansthcirlU
    @JansthcirlU 2 місяці тому +9

    giving us a cheeky finger in the thumbnail I see
    also, missed opportunity to collab with Eddie Woo!

  • @LithinHariprasad-vg3yr
    @LithinHariprasad-vg3yr 2 місяці тому +8

    Tom rocks, Always rocks.

  • @mrhassell
    @mrhassell 29 днів тому +1

    I love the choice of finger, used to scratch that inquisitive chin of yours! :-) bravo!

  • @danielol1362
    @danielol1362 Місяць тому +3

    I’m currently in high school in South Australia, would love to see you have a go at the 2023 Stage 2 Specialist Maths exam. It’s our hardest maths here and has some vector calculus questions which I hear are quite difficult.

  • @jakobandrews2096
    @jakobandrews2096 Місяць тому +3

    Would highly recommend checking out the specialist math exams from any state (preferably the 2021 Queensland exams cuz those are the ones I took).
    They are the highest level of math currently offered to the average public high school student

  • @rashido
    @rashido Місяць тому +3

    Please do an extension 2 paper! That would be awesome!

  • @chrissherlock1748
    @chrissherlock1748 2 місяці тому +5

    Your list says Ad maths, but this is standard maths

  • @JazzyKex78
    @JazzyKex78 28 днів тому

    My son who is just 11 loves Mathematics like his dad. He loves to watch Dr Toms videos. He’s just doing his sats and he’s loved doing past papers etc.
    keep encouraging Dr Tom ❤❤❤

  • @zachylevi1203
    @zachylevi1203 2 місяці тому +3

    Hi To,. great video. Any chance you could do the mathematics extension 2 exam paper ? Kind regards.

  • @DailyDoseofSpace.
    @DailyDoseofSpace. 2 місяці тому +2

    I was literally searching for someone attempting the HSC maths papers! Can you do advanced, extension 1 and extension 2 next please? I think these are more comparable to the A levels in the UK!

  • @markwith140
    @markwith140 Місяць тому +1

    I worked out a q1 to q15 in my head and came out with the same answers as you...then I had to go and do something else 😅. I like the practicality of the questions.

  • @hammy5124
    @hammy5124 2 місяці тому +5

    "I need to use a calculator Goddamn it" that hits 🤣

  • @dorsia6938
    @dorsia6938 Місяць тому +2

    HSC math extension 2 is the very hard one.

  • @jesskate1991
    @jesskate1991 13 днів тому +1

    Would love to see you try the different levels of the Victorian (Australia) exams. We have three levels in VCE (Victorian Certificate of Education).
    General Maths is your base level, Maths Methods is slightly more complex and Specialist Maths is the most complex taught in our curriculum.

  • @markoreilly3414
    @markoreilly3414 18 днів тому +1

    2 questions in,
    & im laughing at Oxford's entry requirements !
    Our Species is DOOMED !

  • @seajay20
    @seajay20 19 днів тому

    Wow, this was so different to my "Maths 1S" exam for Matric (Matriculation) in South Australia in 1982.
    I was waiting for Calculus and other such things. That's the stand-out in my memory from Matric Maths - ie Calculus, with equations taking columns & columns of Maths workings, plus a 4-quadrant graph to work out. I shudder at the memory, and never understood the reason for imaginary minus quadrants of a graph. It never made sense to me (although I was good at the workings out), but I was never going to go to university at the time... although I did end up going to uni 20yrs later, but not for Maths. Having said that, in the primary school teacher training, I did have to re-learn primary school maths as a compulsory subject, and it's amazing how much I needed a brush-up, and yet how much had advanced from my time in primary school in the 1970's.
    Anyway, from memory, I've never seen such a real-world Maths exam like this one before. It's definitely not at all like doing Calculus with imaginary numbers and negative quadrants on a graph.

  • @ST-co7yt
    @ST-co7yt 7 днів тому

    Great results!

  • @JamesNewham
    @JamesNewham Місяць тому +1

    Hey Tom, it would be fun to take the Dutch final exams for secondary school. We have a triple-layed school system based on academic level, and four different kinds of maths (A to D), each for a different purpose:
    - A: mostly statistics, for the economics and biochemistry specialising students
    - B: calculus/trigonometry (things like that), for the tech specialising students
    - C: mix, but simpler than anything else, for the culture specialising students
    - D: mix, but comparable to further maths, for the maths nerds (B required to take as well)
    (D doesn't have national exams now that I think about it, but it's still fun to take)

  • @Siopc
    @Siopc 2 місяці тому

    15:40 The easiest way for me to remember what mode is, is the “mo” stands for most often. Just a tip if anyone wants it!

  • @perx8063
    @perx8063 Місяць тому +6

    Hi Tom,
    The toughest exam is extension 2 nsw maths exam .
    If you can please do this one ? This was is mid level exam . Your fan from Sydney Australia 🇦🇺

    • @jimybobjim
      @jimybobjim Місяць тому +1

      Standard 1 is the lowest level of math someone can do

  • @MindlessWanderings
    @MindlessWanderings Місяць тому +5

    just passing, but as someone who, in decades past, did the NSW advanced and extension 1 and 2.. Wow, I didn't realise how easy standard math was.(if you do do advanced you do it instead of standard).. this honestly felt like maths done in junior years (some slightly more difficult stuff in there but still very basic)
    I'd love to know how significant it would be for university access (atar these days) between standard and advanced because if I was a kid not taking extensions I think I may stick with standard and ace it rather than risk losing a few on advanced. (though I presume a lot has changed since I did this stuff)

    • @ila9063
      @ila9063 Місяць тому

      I don't think this is the equivalent of what maths standard used to be. They've changed the system and the current standard level is actually what used to be known as general maths.

    • @vezei1857
      @vezei1857 Місяць тому

      pretty sure this course isnt eligible for getting an atar, as I think you need to take at minimum maths standard 2. But yea maths standard is mostly built off of year 7 - year 9 maths and doesnt really go too much beyond that (they do stuff like networks which people always joked 4u students couldnt do, as we were never taught it).

    • @chocolatte7736
      @chocolatte7736 26 днів тому

      @@vezei1857There’s a slideshow titled “HSC Mathematics Standard 1: Information for students”. It says that if you choose to take the optional exam by the end of the year, you can get it in your ATAR.

    • @ilyer4199
      @ilyer4199 15 днів тому

      This information is current as of a few years ago, but most university courses requiring maths generally have mathematics advanced as a prerequisite. I don’t remember seeing one course requiring standard/general mathematics and the same goes for extension maths 1 & 2.

  • @fr33kSh0w2012
    @fr33kSh0w2012 Місяць тому

    In High school in year 7 and 8 we were Adding, subtracting, multiplying and dividing USING Different GEOMETRIC SHAPES!

  • @Zone_Ranger
    @Zone_Ranger Місяць тому

    For Q20: Tukey's rule for outliers is any number outside (Q1-1.5*IQR , Q3+1.5*IQR). It is not the median +1.5*IQR.

  • @burnd7426
    @burnd7426 2 місяці тому +4

    Could you do a Singapore A level H2 math paper or O level A math paper.Their known to be rather challenging

  • @JamesCalliss5184
    @JamesCalliss5184 Місяць тому +1

    I graduated two years ago and the SACE (South Australia) system does essentials (this test) then standard, then mathematical methods, and the top is specialists maths

    • @inari.28
      @inari.28 Місяць тому

      exact same here in Queensland except standard is called general maths :)

  • @benkelley8161
    @benkelley8161 20 днів тому

    @Tomrocksmaths This is the standard course, what was known pre 2001 as veggie maths (google NSW HSC veggie maths). Typically this level of maths was aimed for students not intending tertiary studies, hence why every question was applied. These students would typically (pre 2000) be going on to vocational studies (trade school) or straight into the work force, but still completing year 11 and year 12. NSW HSV Advanced 2 unit is typically what is the (previous) requirement for anyone doing any tertiary studies so would be approximate UK A levels, or Germany's Arbitur. 3 unit is for those going into STEM tertiary studies and 4 unit (extension 2) was for those with an advanced math interest. Comparing an exam that is basically ISCE3 (this) to exams that are ISCE4 is (GSE/Arbitur/AP/SAT). Its all very confusing now (post 2000), because there was a huge push to widen tertiary education, and it doesn't neatly align to any UK/US/EU model or system. I don't know of any schooling system that teaches calculus to hair dressers, laborers and truck drivers, and you haven't done any maths that would be on offer for students considering that. Its an interesting paper, because it is applied, and even with out complex pure algebra or calculus.
    If you do HSC extension 2 you will run out of time. Eddy Woo seems to take double the allocated time, and has an offsider checking his answers.
    Doing applied questions is interesting. I wonder if you have tried doing a few different Physics papers, to see if maths alone is enough to solve questions that exist in most physics papers.

  • @amazinggrace5692
    @amazinggrace5692 Місяць тому +1

    My answer is: I’m glad I graduated high school in 1976. I still have my slide rule. Yes we used them. We were allowed by my senior year to take tests with calculators. I think the SATs allowed this also. My AP calc exam also.

  • @barbararowley6077
    @barbararowley6077 21 день тому

    Back in the now scarily far off days of the 1980’s, when I was finishing secondary school, Maths was split into Pure and Applied. Even then Applied Maths exam questions were presented as real world scenarios. Lessons at younger levels also often used a puzzle format, with solving various equations/trigonometric identities/etc. providing letters to solve an acrostic or the like. Every effort possible was always put in to engage students with Maths in as enjoyable a way as possible.

  • @theresakeys2420
    @theresakeys2420 14 днів тому

    Can’t believe you actually urged whether the pool was being empty from the top or the botom!

  • @proshooters1
    @proshooters1 Місяць тому

    Would love to see you do the irish leaving cert Maths higher level exam paper 1 from last year 2023 it was on the news about how complex it was and students were not properly prepared for it u could take a look at paper 2 aswell

  • @steve--smith
    @steve--smith Місяць тому +1

    You need to do the Australian Victorian VCE maths methods exam. Way higher standard. Or the exam for specialist maths.

  • @user-sv5yy4oh1y
    @user-sv5yy4oh1y 2 місяці тому

    Please try VCE Specialist 3/4 or Methods 3/4, I suggest to 2023 methods exam and any year prior to 2023 for spec :)

  • @GilWright
    @GilWright Місяць тому

    Studnets are given a specific definition of outlier (along with IQR) and encouraged to draw box and whisper plots. .... the 1.5 x IQR was right and you came up with it!

  • @Siopc
    @Siopc 2 місяці тому +4

    Hi Dr. Crawford, can you please sit an Irish Leaving Cert Higher level paper please? (Final exam in last year of secondary school) I sat ordinary level but I’m curious as to how you would do it. Assuming you haven’t done it before. Thanks

    • @EmmsterGD
      @EmmsterGD 2 місяці тому

      Higher would be more fun. Last year's paper was an absolute joke

    • @Siopc
      @Siopc 2 місяці тому

      @@EmmsterGD Yeah I had friends who sat it 😂

  • @karlmikko
    @karlmikko 6 днів тому

    I didn't see any comments on the Petrol vs EV question. Australian Statistics puts an average petrol car (avg in australia is commonly a small SUV) at 11L/100km the paper had 8.9L/100km. So petrol car cost more than suggested in this paper. The purchase price for petrol is pretty accurate (maybe a little low, depending where you are) for when the paper was set. As far as the EV is concerned, the stats is a bit harder to come by as they are so new. Most people if charging at home overnight could easily charge for 25c/kwh or less. If they had to use public charging (rapid on the motorway etc) could pay up to ~69c/kwh. Some public chargers (at shops/pubs etc) are as low as 25c/kwh but are slower, but still possible to not charge at home for this rate. As far as efficiency, the best I have found is an SUV EV being 17-22kwh/100km. The paper I think said 18kwh/100km so it is pretty good estimate but on the better side, just as they did on the petrol usage.

  • @pat.2076
    @pat.2076 2 місяці тому +11

    Please do the Extension 2 paper from HSC

  • @juliebeans7323
    @juliebeans7323 20 днів тому

    Ther's another exam set if you can get hold of it - the numeracy and literacy exams for prospective primary teachers in Australia.....So many failed but i found it fairly easy.

  • @johnallen3555
    @johnallen3555 Місяць тому

    cheeparse didn't tile under the sink
    for Q19 you are supposed to solve the equation for x (with y as being 23)

  • @CarnivoreCalculator
    @CarnivoreCalculator 2 місяці тому

    You still get full marks on the outlier portion. If I were grading, I would award student full points, but would mention they kind of got lucky that it was still within their slightly modified application using IQR. But it doesn’t seem like the exact cutoff for where outliers occurs was part of the criteria

  • @cherielocke6333
    @cherielocke6333 20 днів тому

    It would be lovely if you could work through a specialist maths and a maths methods paper. These papers have an emphasis on mental strategies for parts of the papers.

  • @davetaylor4741
    @davetaylor4741 17 днів тому

    I have never been particularly good at maths. Passed Oxford O level. That is as good as it got. Can't believe I just sat and watched this entire video non stop. It dragged me back many years. You are the complete opposite to my last maths teacher at Grammar. He had been a Captain in the army in the second world war. Nearly all the teachers were ex officers in the services. My English teacher was a Colonel. Somehow I think your teaching style would be somewhat different. With less shouting and abuse.

  • @Phoenix-qt6et
    @Phoenix-qt6et Місяць тому

    what's the app you're using on the iPad?

  • @shenshen8369
    @shenshen8369 2 місяці тому

    Could you try to do Hong Kong DSE MATHEMATICS Extended Part Module 2 (Algebra and Calculus) past paper please?

  • @shenysys
    @shenysys 17 днів тому

    the only problem with the plane flying direct from Sydney to perth - it flies south below Melbourne then across the Great Bight where as the plane from Perth to Sydney would fly further north of Melbourne. Roughtly about Adelaide it would fly in land.
    So not if it is the same distance both ways.
    Having wasted time on the website that allows you to track current planes in the sky.

  • @kierstanfaulks
    @kierstanfaulks Місяць тому +1

    why did you do the standard test? even "advanced" is a pretty standard highschool course.

  • @unfluffedcloud8055
    @unfluffedcloud8055 Місяць тому

    Would love to see you try the Singapore H2 Math Alevels

  • @mikimimi2895
    @mikimimi2895 12 днів тому

    there were some answers where working out wasn't fully there, or units of measurement were not present, which would take some marks off (knowing and remembering from my own experience as an Australian student)

  • @strawbzie4803
    @strawbzie4803 13 днів тому

    you should do VCE specialist maths, that's the hardest there is in Australia!

  • @paulrichardson5892
    @paulrichardson5892 24 дні тому

    really enjoyed that clip. i was sitting next to a maths graduate at a trivia night . a question came up sq.root of 169 i said 13 the maths guy didnt know. !!!

  • @eoin474
    @eoin474 Місяць тому

    Tom would you consider doing an Irish leaving cert maths paper ?! Thanks !!

  • @sammij7863
    @sammij7863 10 днів тому

    This was easier than my final exam back in 1972

  • @nealtran1856
    @nealtran1856 28 днів тому

    I used to take 4 unit Maths, which was the highest level of my school time in NSW.

  • @Adam-ct4li
    @Adam-ct4li Місяць тому

    So you were kind of right - last year only 5,285 students sat that paper. Compare that to the 31,394 students who sat standard 2 (a slightly harder paper, but still quite tame) and the approximately 19,000 students who sat one ore more of the advanced, extension 1 or extension 2 papers that year (in my opinion the extension papers can contain harder questions than A-level maths, although there is much less content)

  • @yashbatish
    @yashbatish Місяць тому

    Please do the VCE Mathematical Methods or Specialist Mathematics exams. They're the challenging ones!

  • @ragad3
    @ragad3 2 місяці тому +5

    You know what else is practical? A calculator…

  • @MrCLAASS
    @MrCLAASS 28 днів тому

    This is a lot easier than the exams I did 20 years ago. It is a grade 7 exam when I was that age.

  • @paradoxica424
    @paradoxica424 Місяць тому

    please take the mock trial exams associated with Bored of Studies

  • @PlantswithCoffee
    @PlantswithCoffee 11 днів тому

    Am here coz “Mr Sir” is so handsome + the finger flipped!

  • @ArtwithNethu
    @ArtwithNethu 3 дні тому

    Not tom casually flipping us off in the thumbnail 😂

  • @SaurabhSharma-ot6yw
    @SaurabhSharma-ot6yw Місяць тому

    Hi I lived your channel. Is there a Tom who is a prof at Oxford and specialises in Physics.

  • @rolf5932
    @rolf5932 13 днів тому

    You should really try the dutch VWO (highest level high school) exam. There is maths A and B with B being more difficult with algebra and A a little more statistics. Would be really interesting to see how you do.

  • @user-bz3td2ub7l
    @user-bz3td2ub7l 2 місяці тому

    Guys where i can buy theory electrical circuits papers or any higher math?

  • @codyblayney1354
    @codyblayney1354 17 днів тому

    Can you please try either extension 1 or 2 maths exams??? I did them last year and they're much more interesting. Thank you!!

  • @user-cf5lk5yz3g
    @user-cf5lk5yz3g 2 місяці тому +1

    I do not want to seem rude. But you are on a computer, can you access a calculator on that while you are filming your video?

  • @sukiie6236
    @sukiie6236 2 місяці тому +2

    Pls do the extension 2 hsc paper

  • @andymeier7708
    @andymeier7708 15 днів тому

    Wow when I did year 12 the HSC year, this test would've been done in year 9. Clearly the more "cough" remedial class.

  • @naviledreamweaver3219
    @naviledreamweaver3219 Місяць тому

    y'know... despite the slight mid-years PTSD from the opening/rules page of the exam, it's kinda fun to go along with the video i gotta say.

  • @shanejarvis1108
    @shanejarvis1108 Місяць тому

    Question 12 can’t be answered. When tiles are laid there’s a gap between them. Even though the gap is small, it adds up, and will affect the total number of tiles needed.
    I guess they’re hoping that students don’t know how to lay tiles.

  • @rmsgrey
    @rmsgrey Місяць тому

    I would have marked that at 77/80. I would have given the mark for the question about the potential outlier (correctly identified as not an outlier using a reasonable test) but not the mark for giving features of the data rather than features of the graph.
    Other comments on the video:
    ---
    The holiday home could well be a rental rather than an owned second property, which would bring it much more into normal experience.
    ---
    To systematically find the shortest route between two given nodes in a network, you start by labelling the start location with 0, then iterate by: for each unlabelled node adjacent to at least one labelled node, find the minimum of (adjacent label plus distance along the connected edge) across all adjacent labelled nodes, find the minimum value across all those unlabelled nodes, and label that node with that value. That will systematically label each node with its minimum distance from the start node. Once you label the destination node, you know its shortest distance, and can backtrack to find the shortest path by iteratively looking for an adjacent node that is precisely the connecting distance closer to the start.
    There is one detail I glossed over that's done in practice to speed things up, and that's to temporarily label each node with its current minimum value - that way, when you label a new node with its permanent label, you only need to look at its connections and apply or update temporary labels to its unlabelled neighbours before finding the minimum temporary label to make permanent rather than recalculating every time.
    There's another modification that's commonly applied when you're not expecting to need to find shortest routes from the current start point to other destinations, and that's to add a heuristic value to each node that underestimates the distance from it to the destination in such a way that adjacent nodes' heuristic values always differ by less than the distance between them. Then, when you decide which node to label permanently, you choose the minimum of (shortest_distance_from_start + heuristic), meaning you bias toward nodes closer to your destination rather than wasting time on nodes that are too far away to possibly give a shorter path by the time they've connected back to the destination, even if they're closer to the start to begin with.
    Applying that modification gives you the A* ("A star") algorithm, which is the standard default algorithm for route-planning (actual route-planning algorithms differ to take advantage of domain-specific knowledge, or to bound complexity at the risk of not finding the actual optimal route).
    ---
    Speaking of networks and decision maths, a minimum spanning tree is a subset of the edges of a network that connects every node of the network (indirectly) to every other node, and minimises the total length of the entire subset. Common examples are things like utility networks, where you want to connect everything with the minimum total amount of wire/pipe but aren't too concerned with the shape within that (in practice there are usually additional considerations, but in theory, total distance - or total of some cost metric based on distance - is the only concern).
    ---
    For the ice-cream question, you could have converted the approximate answer of 32 degrees into the correct one with reasonable confidence by observing that 0.936 is between 1 - 1/15 (0.9333...) and 1 - 1/16 (0.9375), so the error is slightly over 2 degrees and the correct answer to the nearest degree would be the actual answer of 34 degrees.
    ---
    This is purely a stylistic concern, but for the fuel cost question, I'd have worked out the cost per 100km for each fuel source, and then taken the difference between them to get the savings per 100km then multiply it up to get the savings for the actual distance. It doesn't make much difference for the single, isolated calculation being done here, but if you want to consider variations, changing the annual distance traveled seems more likely than changing the running costs of the cars being considered.
    ---
    On the nutrition question, I have a quibble with the question, and would not have given 318g as my answer. If you assume that the percentage of RDA values are being given to the nearest 1%, the RDA for carbohydrates (to the nearest gram) is somewhere in the range from 294g to 347g. Without assuming additional precision in the data given, you cannot say more precisely than that what the RDA is. Taking account of the human fondness for round numbers, I would be reasonably comfortable saying that the official RDA is one of 300g, 310g, 320g, 330g, or 340g. I would be astonished if the official RDA was actually 318g.
    For reference, Google suggests that the RDA for carbohydrate here in the UK is 260g, which would make 19.1 7% to the nearest 1%, so the figure used for that label is definitely different.
    My actual answer would probably be something along the lines of "[direct calculation] gives 318g, but considering the implied precision of the data [calculations for 5.5% and 6.5% to give bounds] gives a range of 294g to 347g". I probably wouldn't take the time to opine on the most likely values being multiples of 10g.
    If marking, I would comfortably give full marks to that answer, and argue with my supervisor over what to give an answer that didn't include the calculation for 318g but did give the range of values.

  • @shinnyii
    @shinnyii Місяць тому +1

    I mean definitely a math exam, but I think you shouldve done a harder one, Mathematics Specialist or Extension Unit 2 perhaps.

  • @chrissherlock1748
    @chrissherlock1748 2 місяці тому

    For question 21 it would have been good to show the compound interest formula

  • @phantomxyz_7171
    @phantomxyz_7171 Місяць тому +2

    pls do the extension 2 paper

  • @nomad5195
    @nomad5195 2 дні тому

    Standard 1 is the most basic HSC Maths, downside is the coarse is "non-ATAR", so you can't used its mark to get into University.
    Standard 2 is what most people do, similar to S1 but the content is a lot more in-depth, you can use this make to get into Uni.
    Advanced is what I do, functions, calculus that sort of thing.
    Extension 1 is similar to advanced but a lot harder, if you want to do this , you need to be doing advanced as well.
    Extension 2 is an invite only coarse for the best Ext1 student, it can only be done in year 12.

  • @GilWright
    @GilWright Місяць тому

    The HSC (Higher School Certificate) is the final stage of school in the state of New South Wales. Mathematics can be taken at different levels - Standard Maths (2 Units) is the lowest level. Extension 1 (an additional unit to give three units) and Extension 2 (total four units). The exam you completed was the Standard (base course) exam. Would love to see you tackle the extension papers as well. I believe extension 2 students don't actually do the 2 unit paper - it is just assumed knowledge.

  • @vorpled
    @vorpled 16 днів тому

    I can't remember what that dotted triangle is called, but I can definitely remember losing at least 1/2 a mark if I didn't include it in the answer.

  • @RyanPuccetti
    @RyanPuccetti Місяць тому

    Please do the SACE 2022 Specalist Mathematics Stage 2 exam

  • @GilWright
    @GilWright Місяць тому

    Features: skew, outlier, size of sample.... mean ... you got it except for skew.

  • @emmachen1885
    @emmachen1885 8 днів тому

    I really just watched the whole thing when I don’t even do maths anymore idk why this was so interesting 😭

  • @raymondallimgham7011
    @raymondallimgham7011 Місяць тому

    Hi Tom,could you do the SQA Scottish National 5, Higher and advanced higher mathematics exams cheers