What he really meant was the Ides of March.
I have heard tentative timeline was last week of January
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Et tu, CAS?
Exam on Monday, been sprinting to get to the finish line.
One question, did the CAS provide any guidance on how to mark answers? I’m thinking of just bolding and underlying since those keyboard shortcuts work.
Also think we already discussed, but we can just leave answers in 000’s right?
If they did I wasn’t aware of it. That’s part of my biggest fear is them not deciphering my answers. I left things organized by subpart and if my solution required multiple steps I worked top to bottom for that subpart, but no way did I make it explicit by bolding/highlighting/underlining. I sat for the Excel sitting of 5 and did the same thing there. Now if the guidelines changed since then well, F. Good luck though!
Just write your work in a way that another person can follow it. The CAS graders are trying to give you credit. So long as you make it clear what you did, and what you think the answer is, you should be fine.
Working neatly down the page, and somehow indicating what you think the answer is (“quantity requested = 98.6”, bolding, highlighting, etc.) is probably best practice. But just ask yourself, “if my boss/coworker/trainee looked at this, would they know what I have done?” If the answer is “yes” than you should be fine.
Thanks very much, Lucy
Hmmmmm. We’ll see. I probably will end up on the fence but optimistic that I’m on the right side.
I agree with consensus. I thought it was challenging, and mostly fair. Will discuss more on 1/1.
What are we allowed to discuss tomorrow?
I have no idea. Nor do I remember any of my exam (6) at the moment…
Yeah, I’m really confused about what we’re actually allowed to discuss. They said we can’t talk about the questions themselves but can we say topic X came up on the exam or talk about details in the solution?
I’ll work on adding some more guidance in the thread in the CAS General category sometime in the next few days.
But for now, I think it’s clear that verbatim presentation of a problem (or attempts thereof) are NOT allowed.
Saying that topic X showed up should be fine. Discussion on whether or not topic X is found in the syllabus should be fine.
And I believe that the gray area that is likely to be of most benefit to students will be around identifying an unfamiliar problem (which requires some description of the problem itself) and knowing how it fits within the syllabus (e.g., what topic would it fall under?) along with how one might go about answering it.
For now, feel free to start discussions; and WRT this last issue, work to use as little information as possible to convey some idea of the problem in order to identify the relevant topic/syllabus material to direct questions to.
I thought there was a question that was off the syllabus
What topic was it over? There were definitely some problems on things never been asked before but I didn’t think any of them were really off the syllabus.
Teng & Perkins. The solution required knowledge of the last section of the paper which was off the syllabus
Yeah that stuff got me too. If I knew Verall, Taylor, and Meyers better I might have passed.
Who knows what the passmark will be at this point, you may still have a shot.
I’d be surprised if its less than 72%
I honestly have no idea. I think this was on the more challenging side, so I could see it being as low as 70%.
It could be that low. I’d rather the exam be super easy and the pass mark be higher.