2024 General Maths VCE Paper 1 Suggested Solutions | MaffsGuru.com

[@zekbillion490]

your a bloody legend my teacher told me "The maffs guru would have it up by tonight" and here we are thanks for the help

[@MaffsGuru]

I'm just an average guy trying to help as many people as I can :) Thanks so much for the comment and thanks to your teaching for trusting me to help! Wishing you the very best of luck for Monday.

[@elektrik-fz4up]

HAVEN’T WATCHED IT YET BUT THANK YOU SO MUCH MAFFS GURU YOU ARE THE BEST!!!

[@MaffsGuru]

No ... you are the best! Thanks so much for taking the time in making a comment! Wishing you the best of success for Monday! I hope you have done well today.

[@Chloe-hb6et]

MAFFS GURU THANK U IVE BEEN LITERALLY REFRESHING KZbin FOR THE PAST HOUR UR MY KING :D

[@MaffsGuru]

Thanks so much for the comment! It takes longer than I would like to record, encode and then upload to KZbin ... but I got there in the end :)

[@nou2097]

You're genuinely the reason I did as well as I did. Thanks a lot man!

[@MaffsGuru]

I think I played a very small role! You did all the hard work :) But thanks so much for the comment. If you can spread the word about the video and www.maffsguru.com I would be eternally grateful! Wishing you the best of success on Monday.

[@UrebaMemon]

i agree with this

[@conangraysrighttoe]

thank you maffs guru!! a few ways to solve some questions much quicker. Q35: you can use eulers formula because we will assume the graph is planar since the question is asking to determine the number of faces. (2 = 7 - 11 + f) and f will equal 6. Q39: first you use the 4x4 matrix (without edgar) which gives 43 hours minimum allocation, then you can make a 5x4 matrix with edgar to give a minimum allocation of 39 hours, then 43 - 39 = 4

[@MaffsGuru]

You are more than welcome! I always realise there are easier ways for me to do some of the questions when I upload the video. But, I also like to show that there are other ways of doing the questions too. I will have to remember to use Eulers Rule in future!! And I've only just realised you can use the Hungarian Algorithm and solve it using more people than there are tasks. MIND BLOWN!!!

[@DanielPerera-b3y]

Thanks for all your videos and for putting this up so promptly, this channel is a fantastic resource for Y12 General Maths. Very lucky to have found you at the start of this year. Keep up the good work

[@MaffsGuru]

Thank you so much! I really appreciate it!! Wishing you the best of luck for the rest of your exams :)

[@Chloe-hb6et]

going into monday super confident bc of u genuinely cant thank u enough! did pretty well on this exam today all thanks to ya!

[@MaffsGuru]

You are more than welcome! Keep spreading the word about my content and channel if you can! I want to help as many people as I can. Wishing you the very best for Monday!

[@dwayne_d_05]

what a throwback to my vce days. thanks a lot for your videos man, it really helped me out a lot.

[@MaffsGuru]

You are more than welcome!! I assume you didn't sit the exam today then!!!

[@dwayne_d_05]

@@MaffsGuru yeah, i sat the exam last year.

[@AmnaTahir-h4h]

I've been watching your videos since the beginning of last year and now I'm watching it for my very own exam! Maffsguru I can't thank you enough! You're an absolute LEGEND! THANK YOU SOOOOO MUCH!!!

[@MaffsGuru]

Thank you so much for your very kind comment! And for your support. I am so grateful. I think you are the legend for sitting the exams and going through the VCE process :) Wishing you the very best for your forthcoming exams!!!!

[@tariahunt-oconnor6599]

Thank you so much Darren! Your videos have been so helpful throughout year 12. You have an amazing way of explaining these topics. I cannot thank you enough.

[@MaffsGuru]

You really are too kind! I am deeply humbled by the comment you have made. No thanks needed! I should be thanking you for the time you have put into watching my videos and your support. Wishing you the very best for the exam on Monday.

[@Bri-no3qb]

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[@deltarohani1213]

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[@Bri-no3qb]

​@@deltarohani1213 Awww you are too sweet! I'm glad we are spreading positivity here. And you are so right!! HOPEFULLY WE SEE MAFFS GURU GETTING MORE RECOGNITION!!!

[@MaffsGuru]

I am so deeply humbled by the comment you have taken the time to write. Thank you so much. All I really want to do is help as many students (and teachers) as I can do well in Maths. I couldn't do it without your support. So, I should be thanking you. Wishing you the very best of luck in the forthcoming exam on Monday (and all your other exams).

[@MaffsGuru]

Many more comments like this and I'm going to be a crying mess! You guys are the incredible ones for sitting VCE exams and doing everything you can to do well.

[@deltarohani1213]

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[@sanahussaini7504]

Thanks a bunch your videos really helped me out. I learned a lot and it made things so much easier to understand. I appreciate the effort you put into it

[@MaffsGuru]

You are more than welcome! I want to do as much as I can to help as many people as I can. I really appreciate the time you have taken in making this comment. WIshing you the very best of luck in the coming exams!

[@BossClockFFXIV]

Annual hello buddy! You inspired me to record for my class this year, it was good fun. Glad to see your videos as always, cheers.

[@MaffsGuru]

Hello! So pleased to hear you're recording!!! Let me know when we can do a collab lol

[@BossClockFFXIV]

I'm game! Don't have quite this level of video quality though. For Q37 I didn't have a quicker way, did the same thing. Q40 though there is a very quick way to solve. All of the tables have 4 activities at the start but only the table in option B has 2 activities that aren't immediate predecessors to anything else. Option A would finish with JMNO, option B would finish on FO, option C would finish EFO and option D would finish on FMO. Edit: I see some other commenters have already suggested this as well. Oh well!

[@MaffsGuru]

@@BossClockFFXIV another way is to look at dummies. It seems that A, C and D would all require dummies. Sigh. This was MUCH quicker!!!

[@thecoldsideofyourpillow4381]

Hi Maffs Guru!, I just wanted to say thankyou so much for taking time out of your day to make these videos. I'm not particularly gifted at math's. I'm a bit slow, but I kept at it and passed this first written exam thanks to you, and your amazing past exam videos and explanations. Keep doing what you're doing man you're making such a positive difference for all VCE students in need of math's help:)

[@MaffsGuru]

I think I should be thanking you! For your support!! Your words are so kind and I am deeply humbled! I hated maths at school and so understand being a bit slow at things! Me too. And look where I ended up :) Wishing you the very best of luck tomorrow and for the rest of your exams! Please reach out if there is anything more I can do to help.

[@thecoldsideofyourpillow4381]

​@@MaffsGuruYou're an icon Maffs Guru🙏Got through the last part and I don't know how I did yet, (results coming out in December) but you made all the difference! Especially with the one question that had you construct a matrix out of a rule, I had your CAS shortcut (matrix-construct-then input rule and matrix order) which made me a million times more confident in answering it

[@concur9450]

Thank you so much Darren, you're saving me in both general and methods my king.

[@MaffsGuru]

You are more than welcome! Thanks so much for your support. I really appreciate it. Wishing you the very best of luck for the rest of your exam season.

[@mikeyau4618]

1:33:04 i have this udf installed but is it possible to use it as a widget within my document? yesterday during the exam i had to save my page and open the document seperately

[@MaffsGuru]

Hi. I don't think you can use it as a widget. It is annoying that you have to open it in a new document ... but the time it saves you in doing the Hungarian Algorithm certainly makes up for it!

[@mikeyau4618]

@@MaffsGuru that's okay. it definitely does make up for it as it did save me yesterday!

[@Julessss2689]

Thank you so much!!! I was stressing so hard after the exam but I think I did pretty well based off this 😌

[@MaffsGuru]

Congratulations!!! And thanks so much for the comment. Wishing you the very best of luck for the exam tomorrow. Please let me know if there is anything more I can do to help.

[@a.mermaid9515]

Thank you for your benevolent guiding pressence on Maths, im sure a lot of people have really been helped by you MaffsGuru, so thank you so much!! Also, #nomoreBarry

[@MaffsGuru]

LOL! Thank you for the comment. I hope the videos have been of help to you too.

[@amar6074]

question 40 you can look at the number of activities which appear as immediate predecessors, since the given network has 2 activities which aren’t immediate predecessors to any other activity (those 2 activities converge together to finish the diagram), knowing this only table B can be right since the rest have more than 3 activities missing from the predecessor list.

[@amar6074]

more than 2*

[@MaffsGuru]

Thanks so much for your comment. It's interesting ... I didn't even think to look at C and D and discount them! I was shattered by the end of the recording and was just glad I'd finished the exam LOL. I'll make sure I talk about this more when I teach next year!

[@MaffsGuru]

Bloody amazing!! This was SOOO much easier. But ... then you'd have to know to check. I know that others are talking about dummies being needed. I wonder if, by the time you check all the things which might be missing, it was going to quicker to do it my way LOL.

[@BatoolAl-Saraji]

We’ve been waiting for this!!!

[@MaffsGuru]

He who waits should be rewarded :)

[@JosephNott]

Thanks heaps, I think I got a 37/40. Your videos have been really helpful this year.

[@MaffsGuru]

No! Thank you for taking the time in making a comment! I really appreciate it. Thanks for your support too. Wishing you the very best for the forthcoming exams!!

[@venkatansid6702]

Thank you Maffsguru for the answers, I jus rechecked with the answers I did today and I feel like i got above 30 out of 40 for this exam. Thank you for your help and waiting for more exam 2 tips and tricks for coming Monday. Thanks once again

[@MaffsGuru]

Congratulations for sitting the exam and getting a score you can build on :) Monday is a new day and a new exam!!! Wishing you the very best of luck. Sorry ... no more tips for the exam on Monday other than keep plugging away over the weekend. Let me know if there is anything more I can do to help.

[@mujtialiyar3401]

I search up mafds guru to check other exams and i see this, whaaat 🤯, what a useful legend.

[@MaffsGuru]

You are too kind! Thanks so much for taking the time in leaving a comment! Wishing you the very best for the rest of your exams!

[@szysheep]

Hi Maths Guru just wanted to say thank you for everything you’ve really helped me in General Maths. Just wanted to ask if there was any tips for Exam 2 today? Thank you so much for everything your the GOAT🐐

[@MaffsGuru]

Hi! Thank you so much for both the comment AND for the support in watching my videos. I really appreciate it :) I don't have any tips for you at the moment. Just go in there and smash it! Read the questions. Make sure you know the difference between round to decimal places and significant figures. Breathe. Use Reading time effectively and just do your best. Then no one can take anything away from you! Wishing you the very best of luck!!

[@Z_zzz433]

THANK YOU LOADS MAFFS GURU, I HOPE YOU CONTINUE TO GROW! ABSOLUTE LEGEND

[@MaffsGuru]

Thanks so much! I really appreciate it. I can only grow if students, like you, tell everyone they know ... and more importantly ... teachers to use the content. www.maffsguru.com has some great content and I think it can help so many people.

[@kinger685]

I got them all right, lets go thanks Darren

[@MaffsGuru]

AWESOME!!! Well done!!!! Fingers crossed you do the same on Monday :)

[@rickys9660]

Hey, thanks again for this video. Do you have an estimate on when the paper 2 one will be out ? Thanks again!

[@MaffsGuru]

I'm editing them now. They should be live in a couple of hours. Fingers crossed!

[@MrAorp]

mr. guru, many thanks to you! i got 35/40 and i literally could not have done it without these videos. hope i can do good on part 2 as well. i've told all my friends about your channel!

[@MaffsGuru]

Congratulations!!! Wishing you the very best for the exam on Monday :) Thanks so much for your support in watching the videos and letting as many people as you can know about my content.

[@juliusmy3369]

You are an absolute legend for posting this on the only hours after the exam. Means we can actually grade ourselves 🤩

[@MaffsGuru]

You are welcome! Thanks so much for taking the time in making a comment. Wishing you the very best for Monday!

[@VishnuKodmaggi]

@Maffsguru going into monday with full preparation as ur a generally the goat,. Although I didn't generally do that great with 20/40 on Exam 1. But with ur tips it will definetely help me get the score I want for Exam 2.

[@MaffsGuru]

Wishing you THE very best of luck on Monday. It's not over until it's over. Keep plugging away over the weekend and let me know if there is anything more I can do to help. Thanks so much for the comment about being a GOAT ... but other than looking like one ... I think there are many more people who are better than me!

[@fatima-ul2dq]

@@MaffsGurucan u pls do more past exams and questions u think might come up on exam 2 over the weekend?

[@MaffsGuru]

@@fatima-ul2dq I would love to ... but I think I've answered pretty much every VCAA exam out there! And I'm not allowed to do company exams :(

[@Dznivl]

THANK YOU SO MUCH YOURE SUCH A LIFESAVER maffs guru my beloved 😻😻😻😻

[@MaffsGuru]

No ... thank you for your continued support! Wishing you the very best for the exam tomorrow!

[@islamaria47]

a lot of people including myself r saying we got B for Q39 because we worked it out by hand and we can’t do hungarian on cas (idk we never got taught) but people with the inspire cas r getting D

[@MaffsGuru]

Hi and thanks for your comment. I am pretty sure (having done it over and over again) that D is the answer. Again, I might be wrong ... and will see ... but I can't see any other way of doing it. The wording did make he have to sit and think for a while.

[@talianewfieldd]

As someone who doesn't do Hungarian Algorithm on the CAS I managed to do it by hand but it just took a while. I ended up doing the algorithm 5 times which gave me an answer of D in the end. (I'm a tutor, not a student)

[@MaffsGuru]

@@talianewfieldd I've just added this in the description which might help! For those who do not have the ti-nSpire and hence the program which works this out I tried to find out how to do this by hand without having to do it 5 times! When you add Edgars line into the CAS it works it out for you. When I try and do it by hand it didn't work. Until I realised that the matrix MUST be square. A quick search of google found the following: "I'm trying to implement the Hungarian algorithm. Everything is fine except for when the matrix isn't square. All the methods I've searched are saying that I should make it square by adding dummy rows/columns, and filling the dummy row/column with zeros." So. When you add Task 5 and make the column zero and THEN do the algorithm, it will work,

[@warrenasd]

Great work, Question 39 can be done by entering a 5x4 matrix into the Hungarian app

[@MaffsGuru]

Thanks! I found this out a little after I completed recording!! Very useful to know that it can be solved on the CAS and by hand.

[@madeleineanderson2452]

Q40 you can elimate all but B as a dummy is needy for all the others as they have paradoxical letter combos ( eg in A, L appears alone and with something else)

[@MaffsGuru]

Thanks so much for your comment. A couple of other comments have alerted me to this too! I was so tired when I finished the paper I was glad that B was the answer and just moved on lol. I'll make sure to teach about the C and D elimination next year :)

[@madeleineanderson2452]

You’re welcome. I’m appreciative I now know how to make the Hungarian program work. I downloaded it and couldn’t work it out so thank you!

[@MaffsGuru]

@@madeleineanderson2452 you are more than welcome! It's not at all intuitive!!!

[@zimmamania5313]

I think there is an easier way to do q39, you make a new column (task) all as 1s and add E into the matrix, whoever gets assigned the task with the 1 is the weakest link (C). You could then sub them out of the matrix for E and find the time lost compared to the original matrix. I don't know if this made any sense or if it would work for similar questions but it worked for me with this question!

[@MaffsGuru]

I just added an update to the description for the video. I didn't know there was another way until about an hour ago when I was trying to find out how to do it by hand. You add another column and call it Task 5. Make the values in the column all zero and then do the normal Hungarian Algorithm. It works perfectly and gives the correct answer.

[@DrFelicityT]

Thanks for the great video. Question 35 can be more easily (in my opinion) solved using Euler's formula, rather than re-drawing the network.

[@MaffsGuru]

Ahhh! Good thinking. I didn't really think of that!! Thanks for taking the time in making the comment.

[@khanH-nj2xc]

Question 40 can be done by inspection, in reading time I found that answer C and D both included dummy paths and answer A’s values which had no predecessors do not correlate to the graph, the same can be said for question 31 as J has already won 2 games and one of which being against K therefore no matter what happens, J can never fall below K in the ranks meaning J can never be last.

[@MaffsGuru]

Hi! Thanks so much for your comment. In hindsight, I should have checked for dummies first!! As A, C and D all would need dummies. Sigh. This might have made this quicker. But ... I got there in the end and will make sure I check for dummies and predecessors first ... if this question ever comes up again!

[@mmangaboi_5355]

Thanks so much for the video!! You're an absolute life saver :)

[@MaffsGuru]

Hi! Thanks so much for your comment. I really appreciate it! I don't think life saver is quite right LOL. I am doing what I can to help as many as I can. You did all the hard work!!! Wishing you the best of luck for Monday!

[@saviojacob2665]

Thanks g , What would your biggest tip be for exam 2 considering how this exam was pretty challenging

[@MaffsGuru]

You are welcome. I am so sorry. I don't have any real tips other than keep plugging away over the weekend to identify any gaps in knowledge. Then smash the exam on Monday. Wishing you the very best of luck!

[@lachlanhunter2745]

With question 40 you can look at the immediate predessors and immediately see that B is the only one without a dummy. I did it reading time.

[@MaffsGuru]

Yup! I've just sat and rethought how to do a lot of the questions and would use the dummies for 39, a quicker way for 31 and a couple of the other questions!

[@JesseT-g1k]

How do u identify whether it has a dummy activity just be looking at it

[@MaffsGuru]

@@JesseT-g1k you look for activities which are repeated in the predecessors list. If they appear exactly the same, then it's not a dummy. If they appear differently .. they are a dummy. The Cambridge book does a pretty good job in explaining this.

[@Frog-ed8bh]

A someone with a CASIO I find it a little unfair and strange that vcaa would make q39 is virtually unsolvable without a certain CAS function. I’d say it definitely makes most people disadvantaged when solving this question so the percentage of people who got this right will probably be really low. Anyways enough of my rant, thank you so much for the video, well done for posting so soon after the exam, and I will definitely be tuning into more of your videos for methods next year!

[@RGDRaiseYT]

I fully agree - I personally found out about the CAS function the day before and was able to take advantage of it on the day. Completely unfair for those who use a different calc entirely or are not taught about it at school.

[@IdontknowV]

VCAA pulled a stunt like this last year with the 2023 Methods Exam 2 paper where one of the questions you could solve using a CASIO, but a CAS couldn’t solve it forcing CAS users to do it by hand; somebody really needs to resolve this!

[@joeloakley7609]

Totally agree and I'm going to contact VCAA about this one.

[@MaffsGuru]

On reflection, I didn't know that the Hungarian algorithm can be used with more people than there are tasks. Whilst doing it by hand is a pain in the butt, you didn't need to do it 5 times. It could have been done twice. Firstly to get the original allocation and then to find the allocation with Edgar added. I get the frustration that there is a CAS program for the Ti-nSpire. Texas have 80% market share and so it makes sense for someone to write a program to solve it. There are SOOO many programs out there for the CAS. I have hoped that someone would write one for the ClassPad and make it seem a little more equitable. Thank you for your kind comment about my videos. I really appreciate it!

[@MaffsGuru]

I get it ... I really do. But I have been hammering on about this in all my videos - including the 2023 VCAA solutions video where I discovered it and explained how to use it. I was really hoping more students and teachers were aware that it was an option.

[@br.tanisha]

Hi maffs guru, do you think you could make a video on how to do the hungarian algorithm on a CAS calculator?

[@MaffsGuru]

Hi! I did do something during the 2023 VCAA Exam where it was used. I showed how to use it there but I think it might be a good idea to do a separate video and add it to maffsguru.com. Thanks for the idea :)

[@joeloakley7609]

Thanks so much. For qu 31, given it's mc, a quick strategy to check would be to observe that K only has 1 one step win, and only 4 two step wins (ie k only beat l and l can only beat max of 3)-so 4 total. Just by looking at J, even if they didn't beat I, they would have 2 one step (H and K, and then for their existing wins H has 2 two step and K has 1 two step for a total of 5) Thus J has more than K and can't finish 5th. This sounds long...but it only took a few seconds of looking at it!

[@roshniwalia3777]

yea thats what I did too

[@MaffsGuru]

Thanks so much for taking the time in making this comment. I have to admit to sitting here for some time trying to work this out and basically retaught myself the whole of one step and two step dominances! My mind is now buzzing and I'm going to have to write this all down before I forget it again!!

[@HarshmeetSehmbi]

Your videos have helped me so much thankyou :)

[@MaffsGuru]

No ... thank you so much for watching them! And for your support. I would be really grateful if you could spread the word about my channel and website ... particularly with your teachers. I just want to help as many students as I can ... Wishing you the very best for the exam on Monday

[@shh-zo3zi]

Have been waiting for this. Thank you sooo much

[@MaffsGuru]

Sorry it took so long! But recording, editing, encoding and uploading takes longer than I would have liked. I hope you've done well!!! Good luck for Monday.

[@moaneytoe6700]

Thank you so much for this video my mental state is significantly improved knowing I didn't sell on the exam 🙏 Q38 is still my bane

[@MaffsGuru]

You are more than welcome! Thanks for taking the time in making a comment. I hope that Monday goes really well for you too!! Reach out if there is anything more I can do to help.

[@hotkebabs4466]

Would suggest doing a combination of Multichoixe and short answer, or just short answer prac exams in preparation for Monday?

[@MaffsGuru]

Short answer all the way! You need to make sure you get the "wording" questions correct and all the crashing etc. Wishing you the very best of luck for Monday!

[@JohnGoodman-k1f]

Is there any chance VCAA give both B and D correct for Q39 as I used the steps of Hungarian Algorithm without the CAS extension and got B just like many others

[@johnny9100]

Same here

[@MaffsGuru]

I don't work for VCAA but I doubt it to be honest.

[@gracehorgan3571]

graduated last year but still watching this! hello from my gap year in amsterdam. Do you think last years exam was harder than this one?

[@MaffsGuru]

Thanks so much for your continued support! I really appreciate it. I think this year was OK to be honest. I think I found last years a little more "complex" than this one.

[@Leo-Ali]

There were 2 sum of degree question and my favourite way of solving it quick is just: Number of edges x 2

[@MaffsGuru]

I know ... I keep forgetting this!! Perhaps next year I'll remember this .. and the difference between a walk, path, cycle, circuit LOL.

[@universalsportseditz4858]

Thanks for the video always been watching while doing practice exams, I think i got 34/40 kind of upset was aiming for 38.

[@MaffsGuru]

Put it out of your mind now. Nothing you can do to change the past. So, please focus on the future. Keep plugging away over the weekend. Watch any videos you might need on www.maffsguru.com and I promise you will do better on Monday. Not that I know what's on the paper!!!! Just a believer in positive thinking. Wishing you the very best of success for Monday!!!

[@robynclaire5460]

For question 31 I just figured that 'I' could end up with a one-step dominance of either 1, 2, or 3, and 'J' could end up with a one-step dominance of 2 or 3. Given 'K' has a one-step dominance of only 1, I figured that either 'I' or 'K' would be the only ones ever ranking last overall, therefore 'J' would never rank last - so D is the answer. Whilst this working/thought process doesn't check the two-step dominance and therefore overall dominance, I figured 'J' still wouldn't be last given they have a greater one-step dominance, they should also have a greater 2-step dominance and therefore overall dominance. Does this check out for this question? I realise it wouldn't always be a reliable method for this type of question depending on the numbers that might be given, but for this particular one I was able to get it done fairly quickly this way.

[@MaffsGuru]

WOW! That's a long comment!!! I'm going to think more about it tomorrow when I'm not so exhausted :( Thanks so much for taking the time though!!!

[@lisad3829]

Question 40 B is the only option with one of the activities (K) with four immediate predecessors that is also and immediate predecessor in the bunch of 4 leading into (F). Making it the only possible solution without having to map it all out. This can be seen that A C and D are not possible by looking at the activities with 4 immediate predecessors.

[@lisad3829]

And i just read down - the dummies should have probably been even easier to spot :)

[@MaffsGuru]

Thanks so much for this comment! I have to admit to not really thinking to check for dummies first. And, as you rightly say, it makes this question almost trivial really. Of course A, C and D would need a dummy!!! I'll make sure to mention this in years to come when I am teaching dummies!

[@DanielAbraham-cc9cx]

Thanks Maffs Guru!

[@MaffsGuru]

You are more than welcome! Wishing you the very best of luck on Monday!!

[@90tl48]

I love you mr maffsguru man

[@MaffsGuru]

And I love you too lol. Thanks so much for the comment! Spread the word that the suggested solutions are now live :)

[@markokuric9860]

Hi Maffs Guru! After watching this it seems I got a 21/40. Not too pleased however thank you so much for your help! I’m ready to tackle short answer on Monday 👊 Any tips for revision over the weekend?

[@aaditchaturvedi7490]

Good Luck for Monday 🍺

[@MaffsGuru]

Hi and thanks for the comment. I'm sorry that you're not pleased with the result. Please remember there is still Monday and you have every chance of doing well in that. Just keep plugging away at the past papers (and watching maffsguru.com content!) and I am sure you will do well.

[@RGDRaiseYT]

I worked through the answers I remember putting based of your answers, and sadly, I only pulled 23 correct which has knocked my confidence. Any tips for tackling Monday Exam 2 paper?

[@MaffsGuru]

Please don't let it knock your confidence. You might have got more wrong than you know. Remember, mine are only suggested solutions. Keep working, over the weekend, on past paper questions. Watch any videos you need on www.maffsguru.com and you WILL get better. I am wishing you the very best of success on Monday. Brush off Friday and go in knowing you can do well.

[@leoking304]

great video man, but just wondering if it would be optimal to use Euler's Formula on question 35 instead of redrawing?

[@MaffsGuru]

Thanks! And yes ... it would have made much more sense to use Euler's Formula.

[@leoking304]

@MaffsGuru alright thank you!! I've went through a couple of your videos today in preparation for tomorrow and shared your channel with a couple of friends.... They are surprised to see such high quality content.😄 Keep up the good work

[@oliverwebster4538]

can always count on this guy

[@MaffsGuru]

Ahhhh ... that's rather nice of you to say!

[@howtogame1237]

What did you get for exam 2 question 2b?

[@MaffsGuru]

1

[@callumcarlyon9864]

What questions do you reckon will be on short answer that we should study for

[@MaffsGuru]

I wish I knew! If I did ... my students would get a lot of 50s lol. I don't know that you are really predict any more. Just keep plugging away over the weekend and let's see what happens on Monday. Wishing you the very best of luck!

[@BossClockFFXIV]

I'd think it's probably GUARANTEED to have flow and critical path and/or crashing after not being in the MC!

[@GriffinSCHMUTTER]

Better solution for question 40 - there are two final activities, aka activities that don't act as a prerequisite for any other activity. Only B had two activities that didn't act a prerequsite (O and F), the rest had three.

[@MaffsGuru]

Thanks for the comment. I really appreciate it. I have a number of comments trying to point me in a better direction to answer this. To be honest, I was so exhausted by the end of the paper, I didn't even consider looking at C and D. I will make sure, next year, to use this as an example in my teaching.

[@MarvelShorts_336]

I know we all came here to find out what question 40 was 👏

[@MaffsGuru]

And I hope the answer was what you expected :)

[@MarvelShorts_336]

@@MaffsGuru I definitely did not just guess D. (It was an educated wish)

[@RGDRaiseYT]

@@MarvelShorts_336- I got it right based of hidden chance. If you look at A compared to the other 3 answers, it’s completely different so I immediately ruled it out. That leaves B,C,D Activity F is the same for answers B & C, which allowed me to rule of D. That leaves B and C. To decide here, you look at the other similarities that D has either B&C. If we look at activity K, it’s the same for B & D. The last 4 activities of C also match B. This means, by chance and the way VCAA makes their ‘alternative answers’ B has to be the most likely option. I used this technique for 3 questions today in the paper, and by luck, this little algorithm got me all three correct.

[@damianspiteri1804]

@@RGDRaiseYT Using your approach is the way to go here as distractors often give clues. Once you've narrowed it down to B, a simple check should then be done by referencing the table to the diagram.

[@aleelive3152]

Bro i just watched you pissing on my hope of getting more then 40% :)

[@MaffsGuru]

I am so sorry. I record these knowing that there are going to be so many students who will find out they haven't done as well as they hoped. I am wishing you all the very best for the exam tomorrow. It's not over yet ... so please walk in knowing you still have a chance at doing well. Please reach out of there is anything more I can do to help.

[@ameliamarchand2454]

thank you for showing me how to get my calculator out of fraction mode and into decimals it was driving me crazy

[@MaffsGuru]

You are more than welcome! I must tell my own group about 100 times a lesson :) Wishing you the best of luck for your exam on Monday.

[@hamidrezaarfany3115]

thanks

[@MaffsGuru]

You are more than welcome!

[@rickys9660]

Thank You!

[@MaffsGuru]

You are more than welcome! I hope the day went well and that Monday is a success too.

[@Pajcalm1]

How do I get a Hungarian algorithm on my calculator you awesome man (I hated the 39th question I've been trying to work it out for an hour now, never again)

[@MaffsGuru]

You need to have your teacher download it and then use the teacher software to transfer it onto your CAS. 39 was a pain in the bum! I can't imagine how you were supposed to do it if you had a CASIO calculator. Trying to do it by hand would have been tough. Perhaps there is another way of doing it ... but I don't see one at the moment.

[@Pajcalm1]

@@MaffsGuru I found another way to do it, I made task dummy and I was able to find it out through that, it saves a lot more time doing that than everything else

[@Pajcalm1]

@Asj-g4h I just read this, sorry for repeating you

[@MaffsGuru]

@Asj-g4h interesting! I'm going to try this tomorrow ... when I'm a little more awake!

[@MaffsGuru]

@@Pajcalm1 Yup! I have just realised that too.

[@SteamAccount-o7s]

How did this year's exam fare against 2023 in terms of difficulty?

[@MaffsGuru]

That is a really hard question to answer to be honest. I think it was nicer on the whole. Some of the questions took a time to complete which would have felt tough in the actual exam room. The wording on some meant you really had to think, but I think it covered all the content well. Let's see what the exam on Monday will bring!

[@greenisop6883]

My king, my lord, my saviour. One of the goats behind Eminem and kobe. The lone alpha maths warlord of our generation

[@MaffsGuru]

I really don't know if you've been drinking ... but perhaps hold off for the rest of the night LOL. Thanks for the comment!! I wish I was half those things (and a little bit richer lol). Wishing you the best for the rest of the exam season!@

[@islamaria47]

THANK YOU ❤

[@MaffsGuru]

You are more than welcome! Thanks for taking the time in making a comment. Wishing you the very best for the exam on Monday.

[@user-xm4tk5xf5w]

It’ll be interesting to see the percentage of students who chose each answer. Q39 will have a very low percentage

[@MaffsGuru]

I agree. We will see when the examiners report comes out in a few months (or next year!). Wishing you the best of luck in the coming exams.

[@sarimbabar1110]

For Q40, there is an easier way you could do that. In the exam, I basically I found out which TWO activities are not immediate predecessors of other activities. We need exactly 2 as indicated by the graph. Options A, C, and D all had 3, so therefore, the answer was B.

[@MaffsGuru]

Thanks so much for this. I have had a few other similar comments. To be honest, I was exhausted at the end of the paper (after a LONG day) and I was just grateful the paper was over and I found a solutions which wasn't D. I'll have a look at it again in a few days :)

[@sarimbabar1110]

@ 👍

[@a.s7594]

Do you think this was harder than 2023? Thanks for the solutions as well! :)

[@MaffsGuru]

I think it was a lot more accessible to be honest. I found the questions a lot nicer than previous years. There was some change of wording which made me have to think for a while ... but it wasn't as horrible as it could have been. I hope you feel you have done well. And ... not a problem. I enjoy doing the exams ... gives me something to do of an evening lol.

[@glyphocyxniefwe1416]

@MaffsGuru really? I've been talking to people in person and on forums and stuff and so many strong students performed very poorly and the consensus was that the exam was quite difficult

[@MaffsGuru]

@@glyphocyxniefwe1416 Now I feel bad. There were some interesting question which were worded differently than before. And some of the questions too a shed load of time to complete. This might be why people are finding it hard. Some students were telling me that they didn't have their normal 30 minutes to check ... and this made it feel harder. Hopefully, even though people found it hard, they did better than they think.

[@madinasultanzada3499]

@MaffsGuru it seemed more like an English exam than maths. They should swap the maths exam with English

[@MaffsGuru]

@@madinasultanzada3499 I hope not! I'm terrible at English!!!

[@JesseT-g1k]

Thanks for the video! Really helpful. Just curious how confident are you that question 39 was to be done that way u did it?

[@MaffsGuru]

Hi! Thanks so much for your comment. I'm about 90% confident that's the only way it should have been done. I know there are other theories floating around, but I can't see how it could have been done any other way - in the time you had.

[@x2haze]

@@MaffsGuru I thought that you could put Edgar’s times in a fifth row and create a fifth task, which would all be 0’s and would model when someone is allocated nothing. Then you can apply the Hungarian algorithm to these new tasks and I found a minimum allocation of 41. What are your thoughts on this/could this be right? I was quite confused by the wording though…

[@MaffsGuru]

@@x2haze I had the same thought ... but this wouldn't make the matrix square and nothing I have taught before suggested putting zeros in. The wording made me think long and hard for a few minutes. The only sensible way left was to replace each of the people in the table and work out the allocation again.

[@MaffsGuru]

@@x2haze that is exactly what you are supposed to do! I just learned that myself. I ran it by hand and came out with the correct answer. With Task 5 all zeros. I'm surprised you got 41. Perhaps go back and check it again. When I had 5 rows and 5 columns, with the last column as a zero, it gave me 39.

[@x2haze]

@@MaffsGuruyeah I looked at it again and realised that in my haste I did a row reduction before I added the column of zeros in and that’s where I went wrong. Thanks for getting back to me.

[@hanjisvngie]

thank you so much!!

[@MaffsGuru]

You are more than welcome! Thanks so much for taking the time in leaving a comment. Fingers crossed you did well and that Monday is successful too.

[@eddiehuang1811]

it was really a tough paper this year. Slightly harder than last year's

[@MaffsGuru]

The questions were worded in a different way and there was some new takes on the questions. I hope you did better than you seem to think. There is always Monday! Wishing you the best of luck and success.

[@eddiehuang1811]

@ thx for the video. After going through the solutions, I only got a -3, much better than I expected as I guessed some of the questions right!!!

[@MaffsGuru]

@@eddiehuang1811 congratulations! So it's still all to play for on Monday :)

[@Kingy_56]

Your a legend mate

[@MaffsGuru]

No ... I think you're the legend for sitting VCE exams! And watching my videos! So ... thank you. I hope you did well and continue to do so on Monday.

[@farzadmirzai864]

Thank you sir

[@MaffsGuru]

You are more than welcome. Thank you for making the comment and for your support. I really, really appreciate it.

[@tedr9638]

thanks maffs guru

[@MaffsGuru]

You are more than welcome! Thanks so much for taking the time in making this comment.

[@muhammadshaikh4026]

Hey Maffs Guru Where do you get access to the exam paper Can you send the exam paper

[@MaffsGuru]

I get it from school. I don't know if I'm allowed to send the paper to be honest.

[@millasienna5703]

did anyone feel like the questions didnt feel like standard VCAA questions? i felt the same with economics its rlly weird

[@MaffsGuru]

I can't really comment on this. I felt they were similar except for only have 4 options to choose from. The questions pretty much covered the content in the same way others did.

[@RGDRaiseYT]

Why didn't you post this before the exam :0

[@MaffsGuru]

I have a feeling I might have got into a little bit of trouble if I had the exam BEFORE you all did ;)

[@qw.solari]

I missed so many cause I read the question wrong 😭 just praying for a 30 at this point

[@MaffsGuru]

There is always the exam tomorrow!!! Just focus on reading the questions properly tomorrow and I'm sure all will be fine!

[@matthewlee920]

Do you think this was a relatively more challenging exam compared to previous ones?

[@MaffsGuru]

I think it had some time consuming questions ... but I think it wasn't too bad. I quite liked it. Some wordy questions which took some time to decode.

[@TomiGoat]

thanks unc

[@MaffsGuru]

You are more than welcome! Wishing you the very best for the rest of your exams.

[@nadaelhen6783]

When’s exam 2 coming

[@MaffsGuru]

I'm editing them now. They should be live in a couple of hours. Fingers crossed!

[@nadaelhen6783]

@ yay can’t wait 😊

[@MaffsGuru]

My computer crashed so it's going to take a little longer :(

[@nadaelhen6783]

@@MaffsGuru that’s okay 😂

[@isabellamangioneart]

GUYS I GOT 78% OH MY GOD. I HAD BEEN AVERAGING 60% ON PAPER 1 IN ALL MY PRACTICES NO WAY

[@MaffsGuru]

Congratulations!!! Well done :) It's all to play for now!!! Concentrate on Paper 2 now and let me know if there is anything more I can do to help.

[@isabellamangioneart]

@@MaffsGuru i couldn't have done it without your videos! im so grateful, even my awesome maths teacher has been recommending our class to watch your answers for past papers. thank youu!!!

[@mmangaboi_5355]

YOOOO no way!!! Great job :DD

[@isabellamangioneart]

@@mmangaboi_5355 NAHHH HOW DID YOU FIND ME

[@mikeyau4618]

1:05:06 my honest reaction during the exam today

[@MaffsGuru]

I must admit to having spent longer on some of these questions than I would have liked! But ... such is the exam :)

[@BossClockFFXIV]

Same! At least it wasn't as bad, I think.

[@mikeyau4618]

@ not a problem at all hahah. it was just funny because those were my exact thoughts sitting the paper today

[@howtogame1237]

Also very sorry but last question, is the 1 mark 1 ss an accurate myth?

[@MaffsGuru]

Sorry ... I don't quite understand your question.

[@saketdamodar2711]

@@MaffsGuru i think he means that for each mark you lose on the exam, your study score goes down by one. big fan of your videos and eagerly awaiting your solutions for exam 2.

[@MaffsGuru]

@@saketdamodar2711 I don't think that would be the right way to think of it. Thanks for the feedback about the videos! I really appreciate it.

[@allisonkenins2429]

Q40 - options A, C and D required dummy activities, but the diagram didnt have any drawn, so only option B would work.

[@MaffsGuru]

Ahhh ... that's really great to hear! I didn't even look at C and D (bad teacher!).

[@killaved4262]

Hi, There is a quicker way to do question 37, if you assume x and y are on the critical path, we see that for the critical path to equal 34, x has to be 14-y. None of the answers make it such that this is the case, meaning that both x and y arent on the critical path. Then we take the case where y is not on the critical path but x is, meaning y is greater than 7, one scenario for this and it is only true if x=7, so cross that one off. Then we have to assume the x is not on the critical path but y is, this is only the case when x is greater than 10 and y is less than 7, which is only a possibility in D, where x is 11. Plug it in and we see it is correct.

[@MaffsGuru]

I am a little confused. I'm going to look more at what you're saying ... but I don't see how the critical path has anything to do with this question. Pretty much everyone I spoke with says it's trial and error. They were smarter than me and started at the end!

[@killaved4262]

​@@MaffsGuru sorry used the wrong terminology there, I mean the shortest path not the critical path.

[@officialone3575]

hey what time will paper 2 come out - love ur vids btw

[@MaffsGuru]

It's encoding now. I'll then upload to KZbin so I'm thinking within the hour.

[@greenisop6883]

@@MaffsGuru Epic hope I cooked, pray for me king 🙏

[@MaffsGuru]

My computer crashed so it's going to take a little longer :(

[@greenisop6883]

@@MaffsGuru NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!. we need to form a world in which MaffsGuru is supplied with the highest quaility computers so this never happens

[@MaffsGuru]

@@greenisop6883 If everyone who watches the videos donated $10 ... I think I'd be able to afford that computer! And record LOTS more resources. Oh well. Never going to be right ... never going to be famous!

[@kiransingh8667]

you are the goat man

[@MaffsGuru]

Nahhh ... you are for watching the videos! Spread the word that the solutions are live :) And let me know if there is anything more I can do to help. Wishing you the very best for Monday!

[@afldomain]

this exam was so hard bro😭😭

[@MaffsGuru]

It was pretty wordy and they, once again, found a lot of different ways of asking questions. I hope you did better than you think ... and please don't stop trying. Monday is a new day ... and it might feel much better!

[@howtogame1237]

Do you reckon this exam 2 was relatively hard or easy?

[@howtogame1237]

Also what did you get for the question about 2 time series patterns

[@popcorn1601]

@@howtogame1237 there were time series on exam 2??

[@howtogame1237]

@@popcorn1601 sry it may not have been a time series plot, but the one with a graph asking for features

[@MaffsGuru]

I put "Random Fluctuations and Increasing Trend"

[@MaffsGuru]

It's really hard to tell. I've taught this for years. I thought it was pretty good. Some questions made me think ... but that's a good thing for an exam!

[@RGDRaiseYT]

Exam 2 solutions coming soon..... :0??

[@MaffsGuru]

It's encoding now. I'll then upload to KZbin so I'm thinking within the hour.

[@MaffsGuru]

My computer crashed so it's going to take a little longer :(

[@roshniwalia3777]

WE HAD TO DO 4 HUNGARIAN ALGORITHMS OMG I did not know there was a cas program for this smh

[@MaffsGuru]

It turns out you only needed to do it twice. I didn’t know that you could have 5 rows and it would return the best allocation from those 5 even when one is ignored. I learned something too!

[@cryptoclan8618]

i dont understand 40 how is it not B

[@MaffsGuru]

Question 40 is B. That was the answer I gave.

[@cryptoclan8618]

@@MaffsGuru wait no i said the wrong thing i meant to say " i dont know how its B

[@MaffsGuru]

@@cryptoclan8618 have you watched the video. I hope I explain why it's B by doing the question. Apparently, options C and D can't be true as they would need to have a dummy. And the diagram did not have a dummy.

[@cryptoclan8618]

@@MaffsGuru yeah i have i just dont understand where the dummy goes and how to tell that

[@cryptoclan8618]

anyways thanks for all the help i got 70% all because of you LOVE you vids and am spreading the message literally all my school was going crazy as soon as you dropped the video

[@zaydaneibrahimovic974]

Sir according to your video, I got 31/40. Do you think that will be an A?

[@MaffsGuru]

I am so sorry but I can't answer this. I wish I knew. Wishing you the very best of luck though.

[@elektrik-fz4up]

It’s impossible to say at the moment, in 2023, it would’ve been a B+ and in 2022, it would’ve been an A. Judging by the fact that I feel most people have found this to be more difficult, i’d say it’s closer to being an A, but some people have found this years paper to be easier than 2023.