[Year 12 SofDev] Quick thoughts on the SD exam over a cold beer

[Darren Scott]

I have to express my disappointment that History: Revolutions got to have giant robots in their exam and we didn't ... and it's probably a sad sign of my misspent childhood that I could actually identify the giant robot in the exam question (as both the Marauder from BattleTech and the Glaug Officer Pod from Robotech). http://www.theage.com.au/national/education/history-transformed-in-vce-exam-20121114-29ce7.html for those who haven't seen it.

Serious note, my kids were overall quite happy walking out ... no "what was that about?" from any of them.

Darren Scott
Catholic College Bendigo



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From: sofdev-bounces at edulists.com.au [mailto:sofdev-bounces at edulists.com.au] On Behalf Of Christophersen, Paula P
Sent: Friday, 16 November 2012 7:26 PM
To: Year 12 Software Development Teachers' Mailing List
Subject: Re: [Year 12 SofDev] Quick thoughts on the SD exam over a cold beer

All clear!

Regards
Paula

Sent from my iPad

On 16/11/2012, at 6:59 PM, "Kevork Krozian" <kevork at edulists.com.au<mailto:kevork at edulists.com.au>> wrote:
Hi Folks,

We had better not post details of questions until we get the all clear from Paula.
I thought it was fair but I do have a few comments to add when we get the go ahead.

Speak soon

Kevork Krozian
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From: sofdev-bounces at edulists.com.au<mailto:sofdev-bounces at edulists.com.au> [mailto:sofdev-bounces at edulists.com.au] On Behalf Of Mark KELLY
Sent: Friday, 16 November 2012 4:53 PM
To: Year 12 Software Development Teachers' Mailing List
Subject: [Year 12 SofDev] Quick thoughts on the SD exam over a cold beer

Section A - very sound.  Thank dog good sense prevailed again regarding the OSI model question.

B1c - odd. Can't you just say it has the features of the 2 previous answers? I can't see what the question is getting at.

B4 + 5 - aha!  They have finally asked students to write pseudocode!  I knew that would come eventually.  And it's worth beaucoup marks!

C3b - I was hoping an <<extends>> might get into the exam, but not this year.

The exam seemed light-on for pseudocode deskchecking. I was expecting something meatier.  Still, can't have everything.

Overall - it's a tail-wagger.

(Note: I reserve the right to discover exam horrors later, when the beer's finished)


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