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Just wanting to know who here is in year 12 and is going to be sitting for the QCS test which is about 1.5 weeks away!!! Are you excited? scared? please discuss :D im in year 12 attending BSHS on the Gold Coast which school are you from and how do you think you/your school will go :D

Im from HSHS and am anxious about it but i want to get it over and done with. I do poorly on the Writing task getting bout 3s usually but hopefully get at least a 2- on this one, and get over 70 in multi choice and over 50 in the short response. However, our school will do crap overall possibly cause on the practice our average was the same state average for the WT of a 4+ but was 6 marks under for the SR and 6 marks under for the entire 100 mark MC.

Ah good old QCS.

Got an A last year :) In all the pracs I was getting 46+ on MCs, 2+/1- on writing, close to 100% on SRIs (loved them for some reason).

Best of luck!

The current year 12s at my old high school recently took the 2007 test as a full practice. They got 18 points above state average, so if they did it last year they'd have topped the state in the test! Crazy.

My Girlfriend in year 12 is stressing out madly! Hopefully after it's all over she'll be back to her normal self haha.

I think I'm going to do badly in the Multi Choice. That's after looking at my practice test results. I think I should be okay in the SRI and writing papers though. It's freaky that it is so close...

Don't worry about the QCS. Biggest crock of shit you'll ever do in your whole entire schooling career.

Boofis writes...

Don't worry about the QCS. Biggest crock of shit you'll ever do in your whole entire schooling career.

I agree, I did it back in 2005 and It was so easy it made me laugh, I can't believe my school did so badly.

People stress, it's not that hard.

I got OP 17 (ok so it was more lack of effort than lack of brains) and an A on the QCS... you work it out.

The QCS really isn't something to be fully stressed about. Sure, a little stress is ok and to be expected. But it's not a do or die in terms of what you're gonna get into, etc.. I got a B for the QCS and still ended up with an OP of 2 (this was in 2006).

I thought individual QCS results dont directly impact on your OP calculation, but its the whole grade average/scores of your classes that do..?

Joy Division writes...

I thought individual QCS results dont directly impact on your OP calculation, but its the whole grade average/scores of your classes that do..?

That is correct.

So if you have a whole subject class or grade thinking 'oh screw it, it doesn't really impact my individual marks', then have fun with your crap tertiary results (and screwing it up for others that needed high OPs to get into courses).

I'm going to be taking it too, I might be weird but I'm looking forward to it! Two days where all I have to worry about is a test that I can't study for and added onto that some of the mathematical questions I've done in the practices have been quite fun, though the English ones suck. :P

Jevan writes...

So if you have a whole subject class or grade thinking 'oh screw it, it doesn't really impact my individual marks', then have fun with your crap tertiary results (and screwing it up for others that needed high OPs to get into courses).

There's really no reason to not do your best though, unless you want to leave the test early or something.

You have to use Barry as the main character in your story, if you still write a story that is... You may refer to him as Bazza if you wish...

I got an A for the QCS test, don't know how I managed that one... OP came out at 6 which is more than what I needed to get into the uni I wanted to go to... could have done heaps better if I put a bit more effort into my studies...

It's a breeze, just answer the questions, stress less if you can't, most of the other students in the state are shitting themselves and if you can get over that part (the stress and poo smell) then you are already in front...

Nah im not stressing over it as such, i go to a private school and our results on the practice QCS results were the top 5 the college has ever seen, so my yr12 cohort has what it takes. Personally i think writing task and MCQ are the easiest and the SRI is fairly challenging for me. It pisses me off when people say the QCS is easy.

Entangle writes...

It pisses me off when people say the QCS is easy.

The QCS is easy... wait till you get to uni...

hah awsome im a little different to everyone else. I seem to LOVE the SR but i HATE the MC :/

My key item of advice: For the writing task, do something different.

Everyone either does a short story or argumentative essay. The markers get sick of them and all grade 12ers suck at that anyway. Short stories that are not planned out properly always suck. Argumentative essays require research.

So do something wacky, go for a brochure, do a marketing campaign for a new product. Do a radio script or a screen play.

I did it in 2005, the theme was discovery. I basically did a brochure asking for people to apply to be a ship hand on the Endeavor. Got an A in the QCS overall.

Also, do whatever it is that calms you down before going in. If you have a song that you really like, play that on your ipod on the way there. I wouldn't recomend computer gaming though, because it can increase your sympathetic nervous system, which is the opposite of calming down.

Lapse writes...

My key item of advice: For the writing task, do something different.

I did it in 2005, the theme was discovery. I basically did a brochure asking for people to apply to be a ship hand on the Endeavor. Got an A in the QCS overall.

I did the QCS same year, I just blathered on for the required length about what I though the term Discovery meant and could mean to people.

I also got an A

Facade is a great word for these types of essays.

i just dont seem to know how you could make a brochure in the test. How do you do it? could someone give an exampple :P or link me thanks!

lol at people stressing, i did mine last year, only got a C though, but guess what OP i got, a 9! i was so proud when i saw that single diget, and i just passed maths C and physics, got HA in maths B, almost HA in english, and i think VHA/HA in Music.
currently doing civil engineering at griffith uni on the gold coast, went to St. Andrews Lutheran College in Tallebudgera Valley (inland from Burleigh Heads).

srsly, don't stress about the QCS, its not that big a deal unless you know your gonna get raped by your grades and will only make the uni course by the skin of ur teeth. Once your in uni, your highschool marks and QCS mean jack sh!t.

oh yeh, my QCS writing was on Essence (who the hell thinks of that), friend did it on Herbal essence the shampoo, i did mine on the Essence of design, basically blabbered on for 500 words or what ever it was about how the guy on that 1 wheel motocycle made it, and i used examples from star wars ep 1 with the pod racers and southpark with the 'IT'.

Meh. I'm honestly not so worried – just want to get it over and done with. People stress way too much for it.

Entangle writes...

It pisses me off when people say the QCS is easy.

Ahahahaha. The QCS is one of the easiest things you'll do in Year 12...

If that's not the case, then wait till you hit uni ;)

1 week guys...the countdown begins.

Jevan writes...

Ahahahaha. The QCS is one of the easiest things you'll do in Year 12...

Then why is the state average for some of the tests D's?
Sure its easy in the sense that your mark wont directly affect you but its pretty hard to concentrate over 2 days of constant working. Im not saying it is extremely hard, but im certainly not saying the QCS is easy.

the concept of what they are asking is easy.. its just how they word it...

No one wants to get their Queensland certificate and see a massive 'D' written next to 'QCS result'. People stress not because they're worried about the difficulty of the exam, they stress because they're worried about their pride if they do poorly on the exam. You only have a little bit of control over this exam, you cant study for it, only prepare for it (you can train your mind to get into 'QCS thinking mode'). Don't take it too seriously because your result will have no impact on where you end up in life :)

Entangle writes...

Then why is the state average for some of the tests D's?

Surely this post is in jest?

It means SFA that state average is a D, because everyone else in the state is scaled accordingly.

its pretty hard to concentrate over 2 days of constant working.

You have got to be joking right? It's 2 days of 2 hour tests (total of 8 hours work). That's one working day. It's not constant; you get massive breaks.

Again, wait till you start uni or work ;)

Edit: Billy is so right. It's not difficult, people just crap themselves because they don't want to fail.

ITs also got partly to do with the school. I know at my school the teachers lie to you to make you scared and to drop out, so that only the higher end students remain so that the school looks better. They says stuff like your individiual result effects your OP score by 70%! Alot of people have believed this and are continiung to.. Its goood for me because i can focus on my subjects and do well while the others jepardise time on the QCS do well, i get the mark and suffer in their subjects :D ( this is not selfish.. i am going to stil try for the QCS but not as hard as my subjects!)

Boofis writes...

Don't worry about the QCS. Biggest crock of shit you'll ever do in your whole entire schooling career.

Totally agree. I do maths a, graphics, IPT, business and HPE, get A's and top of the class and I did really pourly on the QCS (below state average) 4- for writing task. But those subjects don't really relate to anything that is on the QCS. The questions are stupid and a complete waste of time, and don't relate to anything where I want my career to go

Jevan writes...

It means SFA that state average is a D, because everyone else in the state is scaled accordingly.
Yes it means the state average is a D.

I did this last year its pretty simple nothing to stress over. Although my school did terrible despite my A.

i have a quick Question. If you get a D on the QCS but your cohord gets an average of a B is that good for you? does that mean your OP gets affected by a B?

I never really care about the whole 'I only need this for my course so I just need to get this OP'. I mean, well, I just want to impress myself and impress others. Least I'm honest about that.
I'm in year 12 and all I hear is:
"I'm dropping out of Maths 'cos I don't need it for my TAFE course"
"My course only needs to get (some low OP) so I'm not going to try"
"Bla bla bla, given up on myself, bla bla"

I'm nervous for the QCS because I do want to do good. If I do well I will know that I played my part and I didn't let the group down. I wish everyone would think like that.

Good Luck!

P.S We did the practice the other week. I did a short story (I know. LAME, but i blanked!) and I got a 1-. Pretty pleased except my MC results were SHOCKING.

A few hours ago a courier dropped off a few locked boxes here at work, which must be the QCS tests. I'm guessing they're in the Principal's office now waiting the test. They must be doing the rounds over the next few days delivering the papers.

well be a man and take them!! :P

JMs. writes...

A few hours ago a courier dropped off a few locked boxes here at work, which must be the QCS tests. I'm guessing they're in the Principal's office now waiting the test. They must be doing the rounds over the next few days delivering the papers.

Nah mate the test papers get delivered on the morning in a big security CHUBB truck or something of that nature, theyre highly monitored and if someone speaks during the QCS it can f'k up everything

I also heard from someone that the Writing task theme will be easier than last years 'essence' because alot of people f'ked up becuase they had nothing to write about.

in some ways thats even worse! because they will expect you to write well lol!

Entangle writes...

Nah mate the test papers get delivered on the morning in a big security CHUBB truck or something of that nature, theyre highly monitored and if someone speaks during the QCS it can f'k up everything

I also heard from someone that the Writing task theme will be easier than last years 'essence' because alot of people f'ked up becuase they had nothing to write about.

Oh that essence thing was so not fun to write about. I go to SBSHS on the Sunshine Coast. My school has done very badly over the last few years but I'm hoping that it'll be difference this year as everyone doing op in my grade are doing really well.
During the practice test my school got below the state average for everything the we were told it was because we did it so early, last week of term 2. I'm not to worried about something I can't really study for.

Do most people have all test normal school tests before or after QCS. I had most of mine before during this week and with Maths B tomorrow, so not looking forward to it.

I have mine the following week on MON, TUES and WED. ( sucks) lol we get tommrow off!! muahah ( gold coast BSHS)

dammit those writing tasks are pure hell, MC is no problem, SRI is also no sweat.

Although they don't admit it, advanced maths and science students really do have the an advantage in the MC and a little of the SR.
It's because maths and science students are faced with that sort of problem solving about three times a week, when the rest of us only do it on the odd exam once a term.

The writing task has to be there otherwise it would be unfair to the artsy fartsy students. :)

I hope I can curb from the short story habit. They are just so easy! Everyone knows how to write one!

Oh! My grade or practice did 2006s (I think) theme: shape. That wasn't bad but it wasn't as easy as FACE (2005s..I think haha). Essence was just horrible.

I heard from a unreliable source that the theme for '08 QCS is 'TRAFFIC'

Hah. We did our QCS prac on the day of our formal, bloody annoying, yet we scored a couple of points above state avg.

Entangle writes...

I heard from a unreliable source that the theme for '08 QCS is 'TRAFFIC'

Heh, probably a rumour started to play some mindgames with people from other schools. Stay strong! :P

i doubt it is traffic.

MSHS!!! lets see how this qcs goes
get some discussion happening

Today we got this big prep 'psyche up' speech on how our 'future depended on QCS' and failing to do your best would impede on everyones future carreer prospects.

What preperation are you guys taking for next tuesday and weds?

we get ours on monday.. hehe we got friday off to help us! but im ganna have a huge bat to release all the stress ( jokes!) im ganna hit the beach and take it easy. Finish off my assigments today ( sat) and rest sun and mon. do some basic revision on structure of essay and math formulas.

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No prep, just biiiiig breakfast. Every year the year 11's cook breakfast for the year 12's QCS days and last year we cooked bacon and eggs for them and some complained it didn't 'sit well in their stomach' and made them do worse on QCS.. WHATEVER.

SO this year we are getting a 'healthy' breakfast of fruit and cereals..... LAME.

Just don't eat it if you don't like it.

Anyway enough of that. No prep, just relaxation, maybe I'll do a bit of my maths assignment the night before to just get me in the mode.

yea, teachers are cooking us breakfast as well :D
haha they're still trying to push the people out who arnt gonna do very well.
the school only cares because it reflects on how good it is, they wouldnt care otherwise

yeh we get a full course meal. we have vouchers lmao. I think ill have a bacon & Egg toastie and a OJ.

lol I use the free catered food supplied as an incentive to do well on the QCS.

i decided to be organised for once and complete all my near assignments a week before this test. from last week until now i have been getting plenty of rest, drinking adaquete amounts of water and eating the right foods. i have also gone over some essay structures and the past 2 practice tests i dd this year.

i hope this all pays off! :P

drama freak writes...

I hope I can curb from the short story habit. They are just so easy! Everyone knows how to write one!

Umm... it's very easy to write a bad short story. Extremely difficult to write a good one.

I think the best advice is to prepare your writing task in advance, and know it well enough to reproduce it in the test. Don't worry about the theme – you can easily fit anything into any theme.

Yurk Yurk writes...

Don't worry about the theme – you can easily fit anything into any theme.

Only if you're damn good at relating what you have pre-written to that theme. One of the biggest falls awaits those who attempt to do this as the markers can pick a pre-written story a mile off . . . and believe me, you will lose marks for it.

Is everyone just taking it easy? Im doing assignments and study for my exams in 2 weeks, cant afford to take time off

I was number one for my school in the practice, but since i'm not going to uni i'm only doing the QCS exams to see what I get, so i'm pretty laid back about it.

MasterDLG writes...

I was number one for my school in the practice, but since i'm not going to uni

Your school is gonna get owned.

We had the spiel about doing your best this morning :) I'm not that fussed as I'm going for a rank and don't intend on applying for UNI as I'm considering becoming a chef *grins*

Hamish =]

We get our moral cheer tommorow morning! Anyone else here go to BSHS?

Well, its tommorow, im just gonna take it easy tonight, i hope you all do very badly :P

just over 12 hrs now – i go to Varsity on the gold coast and last year we got the best QCS results on the coast for state schools. we get free brekky, lunch and lollies each day so thats pretty cool, and we started preps in yr 10 so we r pretty well prepared..

hope everyone else does well, oh and i heard rumours that the theme will be either identity or travel....not too reliable though

Mollie writes...

Only if you're damn good at relating what you have pre-written to that theme. One of the biggest falls awaits those who attempt to do this as the markers can pick a pre-written story a mile off . . . and believe me, you will lose marks for it

Well, that's what I did and I got an A.

Said it before but I'll say it again – Don't worry about it, QCS is a crock of shit :)

You'll be right!!!

oy boofhead, stop feeding that crap into peoples heads. A cohort with a good average QCS score can assist OP scores by a couple of points, bit silly if you diddn't try.

Boofis never said don't try your hardest, he just said don't worry about it – It's not life or death.

Entangle writes...

Your school is gonna get owned.

Why do you say that? I simply have no interest in attending university, there is nothing wrong with that.

I'm not taking it personally as I did it recently, but my gf is and she's pretty stressed about it for some reason. If life has taught me anything, QCS is nothing compared to what you're going to face in a few months time when you escape school and get into uni. From what I can gather, most peoples worries seem to stem from ill-informed friends sprouting misconceptions on how it can directly affect your OP and whatever rumours are doing to therounds. My best advice is to just get in there, take a few deep beathes and relax, stressing to me is like taking one step forward, two steps back. The test is not as difficult and as life changing as you may believe. Good luck to all of you over the next two days!

MasterDLG writes...

Why do you say that? I simply have no interest in attending university, there is nothing wrong with that.

Hmm.. he was making the assumption that because you're not going to Uni you're stupid. Quite misinformed.

the controversy if the exam papers got out... id love to see it.

sestrooper writes...

We get our moral cheer tommorow morning! Anyone else here go to BSHS?

Nudgee Rep.

I have major problems with multiple choice and am freaking out.
i only ever get a c while in the other 2 i get a's. what kind of mark does any1 think i will get?

bw St thomas more college represent (southside)

Hey everyone.

Well I've already screwed up the 'go to bed early and get organized part' of this test. I'm pretty confident my school will not do well, alot of people barely passed the multiple choice and the best was a 43/50 with hardly any other students near..

The school says we are doing fine but I think it is very unlikely. I got a 2 doing prac for discovery and a 1 for essence, which was imaginative.

From what I've seen with imaginative, they tend to like reflective/ memory-based discussions the best as they allow you free reins to show your vocab off and stuff, without having to worry about plot and such things.

Unfortunatly, I am shocking at Maths but I revised some of the basic year 10 things like median, mode etc. (I'm in Maths B and I honestly havn't used these in two years, hence I forgot them!) so yeah..

I got told I could get as high as a 2 if we went well, and at worst at 7 if we did bad. It's a pretty considerable gap... everybody try hard, even if you think you don't need it, it's just two days and like somebody said before, I wouldn't want to be the one with a fat D on their graduate cert. I'm going to force myself to sleep now, I don't really want to be loaded on Nodoz for the test.

Good luck everyone.

im off to bed, get up not too late tomorrow :S

Finally decided to join. :P

I moved up to B'berg in march, and from what I've found the QCS seems a lot like the SC (school certificate) in NSW.

Frankly, I'm laughing at it. No offence to anyone, but I can't see how this system can be a fair judge to the people above or at the average. Only the people below benefit.

I suppose, I should be in bed and sleeping in preperation...

Soon enough. I'm gonna start browsing these forums. :)

sleep is for the weak, planning on going to bed at 1.

if my head yr12 co-ordinator found out, he'd be so mad....

Good luck everyone!!!

Circles? Ugh

Circles... wtf.
And the multiple choice test was harder than the previous years. I swear to god our school is screwed.

I found that the Multi choice was quite easy due to myself finding the maths, roman numerals and graph questions easy. However, the writing task topic of circles was stupid, a few years ago the topic was shapes and now it has been limited to circles. There is just so much to write about circles. I talked about the Atlas statue stimulus and related it with the recyling stimulus and talked about finding more efficient way to recycle to break from circular bond as the outcome is what is trying to be avoided , earth thought to be square but circular, finite boundaries, opposite to what greeks though to be infinite boundaries etc. How did everybody else find the QCS today and what did you talk about on the WT?

jeeze circle i mean its not that hard but still, a little abstract dont u think......what did u write about

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Protip: Doesn't matter if it's hard or not. It's how you do compared to the rest of the state [see if they found it hard or not ;)]

bella68 writes...

what did u write about

i wrote about shall we buy environmental bags or just use plastic bags and recycle

The writing task is usually my strongest as I got 1's in practice tests for essence and discovery. I'm sceptical of how I went this time, I chose 2 stimulus: the one about the town/people with constant bad weather and the one about breaking the circle to test new boundaries and explore outside your comfort zone. Or something to that effect anyhow.

I wrote an imaginative exposition about a boy who moved to a town full of monotonous citizens with a dreary way of life, somebody moves in next door to him and from there I basically went on about his neighbour influencing him to test the boundaries the city created for him. It sounds very corny I know, and probably was, but as long as you use good vocab and link to the topic well, it seems to hold precedence over things like plot etc. I did the sameish kind of thing as I did for essence, although I hear about markers getting sick of imaginative essays so I'm hoping it was O.K. Plus I got to bash the American Dream and suburbian lifestyle. I think my story was actually a direct rip off of all the themes in that film American Beauty but anyway...

Multi-choice was bad for me. Mainly because I am terrible at Maths/Science. Even the English questions I found were pretty mechanic and weren't aimed so much at the creative/english types. Hopefully tomorrow will be better. Congrats to all who did (or believe ;) ) they did well today. Thoughts on both of the exams today?

WTF CIRCLES! lol i didnt know what to think and i dont know what to think now. I did a self relecftive of a homeless person who steals everyday ( related to the dog stimulu) and talked how every day was the same and that it was as if his life was a foretelling clock ( lol)

As for the MC1 well i nearly started to cry lol. During the test i thought i was the only one doing so bad because i saw all my freinds on like the last page ( later to find our they cbf with the others) Personally i found the math REALLY easy besides maybe 2 of the last questions... As for the english well i personally hate english so didnt do too well. On one of the units i just put BBBBB lol... Did anyone actually finish on time? I did besides guessing those few english ones!

Looking forward to the SR as that is my FAV :D Good luck.

Your idea sounds pretty good, ugh I swear I stared at my paper all through the perusal and just didn't know what to think, and still didn't when we picked up our pens to start. Due to lack of time, I had to guess the majority of a unit as well, I'm wondering putting all of one letter (etc. BBBBB like sestropper said) is probably better than doing random letters? Hmm...

My friends were all finished before me too but when we got out, they were all pretty negative about it. The general gist I get is that many found the english questions alot harder than the math.

Haha it's great to hear other stories of misfortune, it makes me feel much better. That multiple choice was ffin retarded and I resorted to guessing a lot, the writing task was fairly easy, I just hope I related what I wrote to my stimulus "enough"

InTheAir87 writes...

Haha it's great to hear other stories of misfortune, it makes me feel much better

amen to that

Double amen! Though it doesn't really help us in the end hey :p

well in a way it does because at least the state average is lower :P

Wow, I didn't find the MC *that* hard, although I've already found two questions that I made really stupid mistakes on (the very first question I didn't realise the four row went horizontally as well as vertically so I only calculated the probability as being 11/24 or something and in one of the phone ones I didn't round up the time to the nearest 30 second interval).

As for the WT, I wrote an argumentive essay about the shape of life, and how although history can be represented by the shape of a circle (how no matter how hard you try you always come back to where you started, representative of the fact that history repeats) as well as karma (what you do comes back to you), the shape of a sphere is a better reflection of life as life shouldn't be regarded as a linear journey but rather something that you can make changes to along the way – although you will ultimately still come back to where you started. Hope I didn't do too badly!

wow how did your school fare with the MC?
We've done like the past 3 years for practice, and that was definitely the hardest.

Circles – I wrote about globalisation, not sure if link was strong enough...

Oh yeah... well I'll hold in hope that everyone else did equally as bad lol..

i thought with the propablilty one that you didnt need to look at vertical or horizontal... i thought there was just 28 ( or was it 24? cant memba) and pretty much just looked at how many of the tokens has either 4 or 0 or both.

Also with the phone one, when it came to the formula did anyone get this:

P
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2TC

Heh, I just picked that p/2tc because it >looked< right :l

And for that dominos one i just counted, never thought if horizontal stuff or whatever had anything to do with it D:

I chose n=p/2tc as well

I personally think that this years wasn't as hard as previous but in saying that i finished just in time.

The maths questions were really easy, not a big fan of the english ones though :)

Oh sh*t... I screwed up the horizontal/vertical thing in the dominos too. Did anybody do the elimination process with alot of the english questions and find that two choices were getting close to identical in their meaning? I know for myself one of the 'public displays of bad grammar' or whatever q's was like that..

personally, i thought 'circle' was a pretty good topic. you could write about basically anything! i wrote a dramatic monologue about a woman doing 'the full circle' and returning home to her childhood town which she once longed to escape.

being an 'artsy/creative' type i found the mc1 pretty demanding. the maths questions such as the dominos and the gold questions were pretty easy but i totally struggled in the mineral graph at the end. i did not have a clue how to read off it!! yeah, i agree in the english questions there were 2 possibilities in many questions that were extremely similar.

i'm pumped for tomorrow now because i know the mc2 will be art/humanities questions. yay!

Yeah I abhor the english questions. I think if it wasn't from them there'd be lots of perfect scores though.

Does anyone know if all the schools' average scores/ranks get released when all the papers have been marked? I'd be interested in seeing where my cohort placed.

Beasticly writes...

the very first question I didn't realise the four row went horizontally as well as vertically so I only calculated the probability as being 11/24 or something

oh crap, i did the same thing damnit :S

How dandy was the circles Idea? I decided to write a script about Timmy and His Father, whom is a world of warcraft addict.. Anyway timmy has to try and get his father outside to take him to the spring fair, and they have a big fight how his mother died by falling head first into a pot hole from trying to save his fathers guinea pig, any way.... once they arrive at the spring fair a big shot out occurs and timmy gets shot. His last words featured the text from section one about how everything circles or some jazz like that, I'm not really phased about QCS any way =\

Food that was provided was good.
Hamish =]

Edit: Anyone wondering they usually release the comparison of schools in the courier mail the year after in around February or about that time =] And don't worry for all you people struggling with maths I only attempted the Phone Plans, the other ones involving maths got guessed :P

yeah i nearly did that too. then i was like..wait a minute there's more 4s!

i don't think they release the co-hort results. tomorrow will be the last we hear about qcs until we see our final grade on our senior certificates.

did anyone find this MC harder than any of the practise ones ?

And does QCS have a big impact on our OP in the end ???

Erghh, although I love doing english in school, I'm not a huge fan of the english questions in the QCS. In order for me to bloody understand what the writer is trying to depict or what not (specially when its in a passage), i would need to read outloud to myself.. and since you can't really do that, I'm sitting there wasting precious time re-reading it over and over again >o>'

artist91 writes...

i'm pumped for tomorrow now because i know the mc2 will be art/humanities questions. yay!

Will they? Is that a common thing with QCS?

Yeah, I feel really stupid about my Maths performance, most people found here seemed to find it relatively easy. I was okay with understanding the mineral graph except I was running really short on time.

I do think circle was a good topic in terms of its flexibility (lots of different stimulus) but when everything is so varied, it gets harder to link it back to the main idea and the markers are really critical of students relating their essays stringently back to the overall concept.

Also I found much of the stimulus was very straight-forward and perhaps aimed at more methodical students ie. maths and science. Not to say that they didn't find this any easier/harder. I know the QCS 'office' were suprised at the generally under average response to essence last year (or so I heard anyway), and I guess the idea of 'essence' is linked to thinking of a more creative/expressive nature. So perhaps this year we got the flip side.

this MC was fairly hard in difficulty, like mentioned before the english questions were pretty full on.

For the WT i wrote a feature article on the significance of pre-historic stone circles, i only did 2 pages of writing so i think ill be let down... oh well.

That was the most crappiest QCS test crap their was. Seriously. Circles??? WTF. At least shape contains the cirle. How narrow does it have to be??? The stimulus provide was absolute rubbish. Stimulus... yeah right. I spent 30 minutes trying the think WTF to write. I ended up writing a short story about the dog, got hit by a tornado (top right corner), he got lost, went around in circles, chased its tail and then used the quote "what comes around goes around" cos he was mean to a cat. 5- here i come!!!!

Multiple Choice last year was so much easier. Drafts and sedoko. My favorite games!!!. I attempted every second unit 1,3,5,7 and pretty much guessed the rest in the last 5 minutes. because i ran out of time. I just chose random numbers. Should have went BBBB or AAAAA, would have gotten more marks, unless you guess every single asnwer correct. I didnt even read the question. 5 min left and 25 questions... what are you meant to do.

The dominoes, the phone 1st question of gold is probley all I'll get right. Can't they mark the practice ones? This years just totally sucked

Yeah I only did like 2 and a bit pages, and afterwards, realised the lines were pretty spaced out :l, I did mine about the prehistoric stones aswell, but i dont think i related it to 'circles' as much as i should have had

jicola.com writes...

I ended up writing a short story about the dog, got hit by a tornado (top right corner), he got lost, went around in circles, chased its tail and then used the quote "what comes around goes around" cos he was mean to a cat. 5- here i come!!!!

Lmao, nice

natalie708 writes...

Will they? Is that a common thing with QCS?

Yes, otherwise it is completely biased towards a small group of students. Have you done a full QCS practise? The three full two-day ones that we did had one MC paper maths/science/english, one MC arts/humanities/english and the SR a mixture of everything. Seeing as today there was not one art question (such as responding to an artwork) or humanities-style (such as reading from a weather map) so one can only guess these types of questions will turn up tomorrow.

Apparently when it comes to the WT you dont leave a line when it comes to a new paragraph.. Apparently you just make a space about 5 cm long lol! i did this so hopefully my teacher was right!

sestrooper writes...

Apparently when it comes to the WT you dont leave a line when it comes to a new paragraph.. Apparently you just make a space about 5 cm long lol! i did this so hopefully my teacher was right!

Oh gosh!.. What happens if you do leave a line :l..

jicola.com writes...

The stimulus provide was absolute rubbish. Stimulus... yeah right. I spent 30 minutes trying the think WTF to write. I ended up writing a short story about the dog, got hit by a tornado (top right corner), he got lost, went around in circles, chased its tail and then used the quote "what comes around goes around" cos he was mean to a cat.

You know you don't have to relate to the stimulus as directly as you did (i.e writing about the dog in the picture and quoting a stimuli). They are only meant to be starting points for your ideas. You can basically do your own thing relating to 'circle' and tick a couple of stimuli that got you started.

sestrooper writes...

Apparently when it comes to the WT you dont leave a line when it comes to a new paragraph..

Don't worry, unless they state this on the front page of the booklet in the 'instructions/rules' section, you can't get penalised for it.

artist91 writes...

Don't worry, unless they state this on the front page of the booklet in the 'instructions/rules' section, you can't get penalised for it.

Fair enough!!

And too bad for jicola that the WT is over, lol xD

artist91 writes...

Seeing as today there was not one art question (such as responding to an artwork) or humanities-style (such as reading from a weather map) so one can only guess these types of questions will turn up tomorrow.

Jeez thank god for that. Hopefully I can perhaps regain some of my dignity tomorrow. I was wondering where all the art questions etc. were. We did do a 2 day practice test and when I think about it, they were actually split, I didn't remember. Thanks.

There's some pretty inventive stories going around for WT! :p Mine was as boring as heck.

That was the most crappiest QCS test crap their was. Seriously. Circles??? WTF. At least shape contains the cirle. How narrow does it have to be??? The stimulus provide was absolute rubbish. Stimulus... yeah right. I spent 30 minutes trying the think WTF to write. I ended up writing a short story about the dog, got hit by a tornado (top right corner), he got lost, went around in circles, chased its tail and then used the quote "what comes around goes around" cos he was mean to a cat. 5- here i come!!!!

Multiple Choice last year was so much easier. Drafts and sedoko. My favorite games!!!. I attempted every second unit 1,3,5,7 and pretty much guessed the rest in the last 5 minutes. because i ran out of time. I just chose random numbers. Should have went BBBB or AAAAA, would have gotten more marks, unless you guess every single asnwer correct. I didnt even read the question. 5 min left and 25 questions... what are you meant to do.

The dominoes, the phone 1st question of gold is probley all I'll get right. Can't they mark the practice ones? This years just totally sucked

hhahahaahhhahahaahaahaahahaahahahhaahahahahahahahhaha

thats the funniest thing ive ever seen !

(to the jicola one)

Jicola HAHAHAHAHAHAH

jess.lee writes...

hhahahaahhhahahaahaahaahahaahahahhaahahahahahahahhaha

thats the funniest thing ive ever seen !

(to the jicola one)

Yep.

My friend wrote his using the ring stimulus and wrote about gay marriage and hows its good and not. I can't really remember. If you ask him to say what you wrote, it was the funniest thing. I didnt tell anyone what I wrote about. Hope they don't read this...

EDIT: Are you laughing about my story or that I did it wrong (write about the stimulus?)