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VCE Stuff => Victorian Education Discussion => Topic started by: observer7 on October 29, 2011, 12:38:41 pm
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If say you have an exam at 11.45am or 3pm, would you be revising the morning before the exam. Or would you not even look at your books on the day?
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I'd be passively reading.
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i wouldn't be touching anything. the day before each exams i plan to have a nice long relaxing day and go for a nice walk and not think about anything.
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I'd wake up at around my normal time, have a nice breakfast, do something nice and easy such as a set of multiple choice questions, correct it to make sure i'm in the mood, then just do some passive reading or read the news, a bit of facebooking/msn that sorta stuff or something like that until it's time to go
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I'd wake up at around my normal time, have a nice breakfast, do something nice and easy such as a set of multiple choice questions, correct it to make sure i'm in the mood, then just do some passive reading or read the news, a bit of facebooking/msn that sorta stuff or something like that until it's time to go
All of the above answers are the ideal ways you SHOULD be spending your time. In reality, though, (for me anyway), i'd be freaking out so badly that i'd probably keep cramming information into my head. If it's not me freaking out, then it's my peers, who would ask any multitude of last-minute questions.
When this happens, I usually do help them, but around ~15 minutes before the exam, i tell them all to take a break/breathe/go to toilet/stop hyperventilating.
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What do you guys recommend if I have all my exams in a row? (Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday and Friday)?
I can't exactly not study seriously for 4 straight days... can I? :P
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What do you guys recommend if I have all my exams in a row? (Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday and Friday)?
I can't exactly not study seriously for 4 straight days... can I? :P
People doing Methods and Spesh are in the exact same situation (exam on Tuesday-Friday). I guess in that case you'd have no choice but to study the night before... but in the morning, limit yourself to light revision and don't stress yourself out before the exam! Make sure that you don't opt for cramming stuff the night before; have brekkie/lunch that is healthy and gives off a slow release of energy, exercise a bit and joke with your friends.
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I will try to avoid other people.
You always have friends speculating how hard the exam is going to be, how they this came across this super hard concept that could be on the exam and stuff...
I remember last year, someone came up to me and asked me right before the exam, hey man can you do this question? Turns out i couldn't do it, shattering my confidence right before the exam.
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I will try to avoid other people.
I'll just spend some quality time with my friends who are younger or in uni ;D
just avoid year 12 people! :P
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I'd wake up at around my normal time, have a nice breakfast, do something nice and easy such as a set of multiple choice questions, correct it to make sure i'm in the mood, then just do some passive reading or read the news, a bit of facebooking/msn that sorta stuff or something like that until it's time to go
i agree with this, light study is always good, i personally probably wouldnt fb/msn cause i wouldnt feel it be justified
but i hate it when people say 'don't do any work at all the day before or on the day'
i did like 5 exams the day before accounting midyears and it worked wonders and during the day of the exam i memorised some definitions i thought were still 'iffy'
which i was thankful because it was on the exam
What do you guys recommend if I have all my exams in a row? (Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday and Friday)?
I can't exactly not study seriously for 4 straight days... can I? :P
u should definitely study all the days IMO.
not all out, just go over your 'weakest/iffy' areas, and disregard the rest.
i think on the day/day before
you should study, but not so much that it reduces cognitive ability and leaves you tired
go over your 'error log' if u have one, and 'iffy' areas only though
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I'd wake up at around my normal time, have a nice breakfast, do something nice and easy such as a set of multiple choice questions, correct it to make sure i'm in the mood, then just do some passive reading or read the news, a bit of facebooking/msn that sorta stuff or something like that until it's time to go
i agree with this, light study is always good, i personally probably wouldnt fb/msn cause i wouldnt feel it be justified
but i hate it when people say 'don't do any work at all the day before or on the day'
i did like 5 exams the day before accounting midyears and it worked wonders and during the day of the exam i memorised some definitions i thought were still 'iffy'
which i was thankful because it was on the exam
What do you guys recommend if I have all my exams in a row? (Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday and Friday)?
I can't exactly not study seriously for 4 straight days... can I? :P
u should definitely study all the days IMO.
not all out, just go over your 'weakest/iffy' areas, and disregard the rest.
i think on the day/day before
you should study, but not so much that it reduces cognitive ability and leaves you tired
go over your 'error log' if u have one, and 'iffy' areas only though
Great suggestions guys. :)
My exams on Thursday and Friday are all in the 3-5:15pm session, so it's a little annoying, cause I imagine that I wouldn't want to do evening study... :( But I'll definitely go over weak spots maybe in the mornings of?
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well I have further 11:45 then psych later on at 3 pm...wouldn't want to do any maths in the morning.
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The night of the exam I would sleep in heaps. Rather than the typical 12am to 6am sleeping schedule (6 hours) which usually makes me tired, I would sleep for an extremely long time like from 10pm to 12pm (14 hours) so that I feel nice and relaxed on the day of the exam. It seemed to work for my year 11 exams, so I'll try it in year 12 as well.
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study until u walk into the exam room thts what i did for pschy mid years.... i stayed up for 3 nights cramming living off coffee not reccommended ..scored an A in the exam... but if i slept maybe that could of been an A+
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Also after the exam run away immediately. Don't stay around for all the shitty discussion about answers and what not. Go home and just keep your mind on track with the next exam. This is particularly true for exam 1 and 2 of maths exams imo.
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Also after the exam run away immediately. Don't stay around for all the shitty discussion about answers and what not. Go home and just keep your mind on track with the next exam. This is particularly true for exam 1 and 2 of maths exams imo.
Definitely agreed. It sucks even more if someone asks you what did you get for this question??? And you get different answers....
Just bail!
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Also after the exam run away immediately. Don't stay around for all the shitty discussion about answers and what not. Go home and just keep your mind on track with the next exam. This is particularly true for exam 1 and 2 of maths exams imo.
Definitely agreed. It sucks even more if someone asks you what did you get for this question??? And you get different answers....
Just bail!
But then I'll come on ATAR Notes and start reading exam reaction theads :S
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Also after the exam run away immediately. Don't stay around for all the shitty discussion about answers and what not. Go home and just keep your mind on track with the next exam. This is particularly true for exam 1 and 2 of maths exams imo.
Definitely agreed. It sucks even more if someone asks you what did you get for this question??? And you get different answers....
Just bail!
But then I'll come on ATAR Notes and start reading exam reaction theads :S
XD Dont do that either!! After methods exam 1 im no going to touch atarnotes until at least after my chemistry exam, unless i desperately need help with something.
Seriously, dont stress yourself out over something you can no longer control. Just make sure you do better or study harder for your following exams if you felt you didnt do your best!
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Also after the exam run away immediately. Don't stay around for all the shitty discussion about answers and what not. Go home and just keep your mind on track with the next exam. This is particularly true for exam 1 and 2 of maths exams imo.
So true. Also, I recommend not looking up the suggested solutions. I did that for my bio midyear, and they stressed me out so much, couldn't sleep for a month.
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:S i didn't look bio suggested for SA; the way i see it their a bit subjective anyway
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But then I'll come on ATAR Notes and start reading exam reaction theads :S
I almost died from the exam reaction threads after the psych mid-year hahaha
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Also after the exam run away immediately. Don't stay around for all the shitty discussion about answers and what not. Go home and just keep your mind on track with the next exam. This is particularly true for exam 1 and 2 of maths exams imo.
amen to that. as soon as the supervisors go times up, im gonna grab my shit and bolt like crazy out of the hall
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Also after the exam run away immediately. Don't stay around for all the shitty discussion about answers and what not. Go home and just keep your mind on track with the next exam. This is particularly true for exam 1 and 2 of maths exams imo.
amen to that. as soon as the supervisors go times up, im gonna grab my shit and bolt like crazy out of the hall
kick the supervisors in the face while your at it!
YEAH!!
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Also after the exam run away immediately. Don't stay around for all the shitty discussion about answers and what not. Go home and just keep your mind on track with the next exam. This is particularly true for exam 1 and 2 of maths exams imo.
amen to that. as soon as the supervisors go times up, im gonna grab my shit and bolt like crazy out of the hall
kick the supervisors in the face while your at it!
YEAH!!
tell the librarians to get a real job??.. Too far?
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Also after the exam run away immediately. Don't stay around for all the shitty discussion about answers and what not. Go home and just keep your mind on track with the next exam. This is particularly true for exam 1 and 2 of maths exams imo.
amen to that. as soon as the supervisors go times up, im gonna grab my shit and bolt like crazy out of the hall
kick the supervisors in the face while your at it!
YEAH!!
tell the librarians to get a real job??.. Too far?
perhaps tell them not to be bitches!
and then kick em in the face! YEAHHH
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Prior to the exam I ensure that I eat a good breakfast of almonds and raw spinach to ensure maximum concentration during the exam. Then, I ensure that I meditate for half an hour to become calm and focused. After this, I rub a mixture of lime juice, olive oil and the ground leaves of a West Saharan mink tree on my genitals until they become numb. This helps to ensure maximum energy flow to the brain and a feeling of being completely powerful and content.
I then walk to school, fin a quite place and enter a deep meditative state whereby I allow my spirit to travel to the exam room and complete the exam before anyone has entered the room. This usually takes 3-4 minutes, after which time I walk calmly to the examination room, sit before my paper and stare into the depths of the examiner's soul, willing them to give in to the awesome power of Satan.
The exam finishes and I transform into a flying lizard to complete my journey home.
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Prior to the exam I ensure that I eat a good breakfast of almonds and raw spinach to ensure maximum concentration during the exam. Then, I ensure that I meditate for half an hour to become calm and focused. After this, I rub a mixture of lime juice, olive oil and the ground leaves of a West Saharan mink tree on my genitals until they become numb. This helps to ensure maximum energy flow to the brain and a feeling of being completely powerful and content.
I then walk to school, fin a quite place and enter a deep meditative state whereby I allow my spirit to travel to the exam room and complete the exam before anyone has entered the room. This usually takes 3-4 minutes, after which time I walk calmly to the examination room, sit before my paper and stare into the depths of the examiner's soul, willing them to give in to the awesome power of Satan.
The exam finishes and I transform into a flying lizard to complete my journey home.
I tried that, didnt work for me :(
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I will try to avoid other people.
I'll just spend some quality time with my friends who are younger or in uni ;D
just avoid year 12 people! :P
This works really well, actually.
It's not particularly good to shut yourself off from everyone, so just spend time with family or friends who don't have exams.
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I always believe that studying the day of the exam causes more problems than it solves.
For me it makes me think, "Oh no is that really right?" "I think I have missed something."
If you believe that you need to study on the day make sure you speak to a teacher since they have been there and done it before and will make it stress free hopefully.
Good luck all :).
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That's why I like exams in the morning, you just wake up and go, having exams in the afternoon makes it awkward because you don't know what to do in the morning!
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Me too. I'm a morning/ late-night person (I don't sleep much) so by 9 I've already been up for 3-4 hours. Exams at 2.45 are the worst...
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That's why I like exams in the morning, you just wake up and go, having exams in the afternoon makes it awkward because you don't know what to do in the morning!
What the hell are we going to do on the morning of the spesh 2 exam. I'm asleep by three o'clock! (not literally, mentally)
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worst ones are humanities at the most random times
that go for 2 hours O_O
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That's why I like exams in the morning, you just wake up and go, having exams in the afternoon makes it awkward because you don't know what to do in the morning!
What the hell are we going to do on the morning of the spesh 2 exam. I'm asleep by three o'clock! (not literally, mentally)
Like every other exam, i'll be sitting at school with friends discussing how badly we're going to fail. And i have english language from 2.45 to 5 :(
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Like every other exam, i'll be sitting at school with friends discussing how badly we're going to fail. And i have english language from 2.45 to 5 :(
why are u saying this?
what chance do i have if you are going to fail your maths exams?
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That's why I like exams in the morning, you just wake up and go, having exams in the afternoon makes it awkward because you don't know what to do in the morning!
I prefer the mid-day 11.45pm exams myself. By that time I'm usually awake, don't have to rush to eat or worry about oversleeping etc. It gives me a bit of time to relax.
I don't think I'd like a 2.45pm afternoon exam though, like you said, you'd be sitting around for too long either trying not to think about the exam (but thinking about it anyway) or thinking too much about the exam.
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That's why I like exams in the morning, you just wake up and go, having exams in the afternoon makes it awkward because you don't know what to do in the morning!
I prefer the mid-day 11.45pm exams myself. By that time I'm usually awake, don't have to rush to eat or worry about oversleeping etc. It gives me a bit of time to relax.
I don't think I'd like a 2.45pm afternoon exam though, like you said, you'd be sitting around for too long either trying not to think about the exam (but thinking about it anyway) or thinking too much about the exam.
At least spesh isn't after english anymore. How many years did it take them to change that?
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At least spesh isn't after english anymore. How many years did it take them to change that?
It wasn't too bad because it was only Exam 1 - it was bearable
But I'm not liking how our Exam 2 is 3.00 - 5.15, I usually nap at that time :(
need some V/RedBull! :D :D
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At least spesh isn't after english anymore. How many years did it take them to change that?
It wasn't too bad because it was only Exam 1 - it was bearable
But I'm not liking how our Exam 2 is 3.00 - 5.15, I usually nap at that time :(
need some V/RedBull! :D :D
After the english exam tomorrow I'm probably going to go straight home, straight to bed and to sleep. If spesh 1 was after english, I'd have no chance at getting the full 40 marks.
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Dreading next friday :( I just want to get As in both the spesh exams!
So, so cruel... Friday afternoon everyone is dead tired. VCAA know that, they are such dogs lol oh well
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Dreading next friday :( I just want to get As in both the spesh exams!
So, so cruel... Friday afternoon everyone is dead tired. VCAA know that, they are such dogs lol oh well
At least we are all relative to each other, if everyone is dead, then the cut-offs will be lower. Those who can work on nothing will be advantaged though.