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<P><FONT size=2>Does anyone know the shortcut to bypass the reading time for
this years MM exam?<BR><BR>Thanks,<BR>John Helmy<BR><BR>-----Original
Message-----<BR>From: Susan Bell [<A
href="mailto:Susan.Bell@wesleycollege.net">mailto:Susan.Bell@wesleycollege.net</A>]<BR>Sent:
Saturday, 4 November 2006 11:55 AM<BR>To: vet-mm@edulists.com.au<BR>Subject:
[vet-mm] 2006 exam<BR><BR><BR>I don't know what others thought of the exam this
year but the general consensus of the Pixeled committee was that the exam was
better than 2004 (that wouldn't be hard) but worse than 2005.<BR><BR>The problem
once again were the scripting questions. They are simply too hard! We don't have
the time to go in depth with scripting so kids only get a superficial knowledge
of conditionals, functions etc... I mean I've been teaching this subject for 3
years now and I couldn't answer some of those questions under exam
conditions.<BR><BR>VCAA seem to forget that these students are 17 years old with
4 to 5 other subjects to contend with in year 12. As if they have the time to
become fully fledged programmers in half a term. It is really ridiculous and
puts too much pressure on teachers - I mean we're not programmers either. I
would have thought the exam panel would have learnt by now that complex
scripting questions should be left to IT exams, not multimedia ones. And where
were the visual design questions? It appears a whole competency was missed so
that the exam panel could shove in more scripting questions.<BR><BR>It really is
a shame that this subject has been hijacked by people who think that year 12
students need to know scripting. Surely this stuff can be left to TAFE or
University. I'm not against some scripting, its fine to get the kids to make
interactive pieces but these can be done with some simple button commands. I
think the exam panel are doing the subject and the students a disservice when
they come up with all these ridiculous scripting questions. Last year they got
it right, how did they manage to get it so wrong
again?<BR><BR>Sue<BR><BR>____________________________________________________________________________<BR><BR>Sapere
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