Did anyone else notice that U4 exams are far and few between? Excluding VCAA

[Coolgalbornin03Lo]

Like for the new SD even though both units are tested since two thousand and 12 they only put up single unit 3 exams and fully combined 3 and 4........is there a reason for this? I do know that the old unit 3 from 2016 backwards is todays unit 4. But still thats only one unit?

[keltingmeith]

I'm confused by the question - I just checked on the VCAA website, and for pre-2013, they have both the U3 exam and U4 exam listed for every year? Then 2013 onwards is when the joint exam was introduced, hence why there's only 1 exam for every year after that. All the exams seem to be accounted for?

[Coolgalbornin03Lo]

I'm confused by the question - I just checked on the VCAA website, and for pre-2013, they have both the U3 exam and U4 exam listed for every year? Then 2013 onwards is when the joint exam was introduced, hence why there's only 1 exam for every year after that. All the exams seem to be accounted for?

I think my explanation was quite stupid- sorry  :PI meant for company exams (which is why I said excluding VCAA). For company exams they have both combine U3/4 and single Unit 3 papers but NO unit 4 singular exams......is there a reason for this? The study design went to one combined exam and they still continued to make the single unit 3s but not the single unit 4s I was wondering if there’s a rationale behind this? Perhaps as once you’ve revised unit 3 doing 3 and 4 together is benfitial

[keltingmeith]

I think my explanation was quite stupid- sorry  :PI meant for company exams (which is why I said excluding VCAA). For company exams they have both combine U3/4 and single Unit 3 papers but NO unit 4 singular exams......is there a reason for this? The study design went to one combined exam and they still continued to make the single unit 3s but not the single unit 4s I was wondering if there’s a rationale behind this? Perhaps as once you’ve revised unit 3 doing 3 and 4 together is benfitial

Maybe because some schools were still doing practice unit 3 exams? Can't say for sure, company exams are entirely up to their whims. Like, they could decide to ask a bunch of uni level questions if they wanted to but also could be that your teacher is just hiding the unit 4 exams from you, I haven't seen all the company exams in existence, so

[Coolgalbornin03Lo]

Maybe because some schools were still doing practice unit 3 exams? Can't say for sure, company exams are entirely up to their whims. Like, they could decide to ask a bunch of uni level questions if they wanted to but also could be that your teacher is just hiding the unit 4 exams from you, I haven't seen all the company exams in existence, so

Haha no think your first theory is correct. My chemistry teachers have put up every commercial and VCAA exam from 2008-2019 including unit 3&4 combined so I just think unit 4 doesn’t exist