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VCE Stuff => Victorian Education Discussion => Topic started by: aiming_95 on December 13, 2011, 04:35:50 pm
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So we all know it is very easy to get practice exam papers for Further, Bio, Chem, Spesh etc but I was wondering, does anyone how I might be able to purchase/download exam papers for Humanities subjects ?
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http://lmgtfy.com/?q=National+Politics+VCE+practice+exam+3%264+
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Your subjects don't have resources, it's best to look at the study design and expand your knowledge in relation to it. Nothing else you can do.
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Some subjects they simply don't exist. For international studies, I could find 3 company exams and 1 from from Engaged Education for free, and I had to look really hard for them. Ask around on the forums and ask your teacher and friends at school, someone is bound to have at least a couple.
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Some subjects they simply don't exist. For international studies, I could find 3 company exams and 1 from from Engaged Education for free, and I had to look really hard for them. Ask around on the forums and ask your teacher and friends at school, someone is bound to have at least a couple.
I did insight 2011 in class and had a look at the engage one too, but you found two others as well? For humanities subjects, as said above it's very much to do with how well you know the subject rather than how many prac exams you spam (this goes for all subjects of course, but even more so for humanities) towards the end of the year my inter teacher got us into groups to brainstorm possible exam questions; as you become more familiar with your subjects this will be useful too
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There's a shop that sells vce study guides in the walk-through arcade inside the emirates building across from the CAE. Not sure about the quality, but iirc they seemed to have humanities booklets with exam-style questions in them. It probly can't hurt to go and take a squiz next time you're in. SSRC or something, they're called.
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^Senior Students Resources Centre
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Write your own. Seriously. When I finish revising a subject, I write out a whole lot of questions in the front of an A4 book and then go through the rest of the book answering them. Works really well :)
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For Renaissance Italy check out the HTAV site. They have practice exams you can purchase.
Not sure if renaissance is similar to revolutions in exam format, if it is then you can basically write your own questions thereby exam. The hard part is finding documents to analyze.
http://www.htav.asn.au/shop/cid/62/parent/0/t/shop/l/layout
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Half way through writing a geo trial exam for you geo kids (if there are any of you on VN!)
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Which reminds me, you need to tell me when you're free to pick that stuff up :P
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Which reminds me, you need to tell me when you're free to pick that stuff up :P
I sent you a PM yesterday telling you I was free haha.
For Renaissance Italy check out the HTAV site. They have practice exams you can purchase.
Not sure if renaissance is similar to revolutions in exam format, if it is then you can basically write your own questions thereby exam. The hard part is finding documents to analyze.
http://www.htav.asn.au/shop/cid/62/parent/0/t/shop/l/layout
They got practice exams all the way from 2005 :D Sweeeeeet !
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I swear I never got it. Send it again?
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^Senior Students Resources Centre
Yeah, the thing is that they suck hardcore. The guy who owns it is a tool and a liar. I would suggest you avoid this place.
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Russ, I sent it.
Also for people looking to grab a few study guides there is a bookshop called 'Landmark' It's a 2 minute walk from Strathmore station.
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^Senior Students Resources Centre
Yeah, the thing is that they suck hardcore. The guy who owns it is a tool and a liar. I would suggest you avoid this place.
Old guy who wears glasses ?
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^Senior Students Resources Centre
Yeah, the thing is that they suck hardcore. The guy who owns it is a tool and a liar. I would suggest you avoid this place.
Old guy who wears glasses ?
Yeah...his sales pitch will go something along the lines of:
-Asking you what subjects you take
-Showing you every item in his store which relates to these subjects
-Telling you every one of his items is 'great' and to buy them.
-Making up some bs story about his daughter who got an SS of X in subject Y and used some book which he sells. (For some reason, his daughter's study score in psych changed each of the three times I was in the store)
-Telling you to buy some book because all of the Asians at MHS are using it...
Total jerk. STAY AWAY!
Also note that their self branded crap is useless...
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Yeh, I got sucked into buying their self branded books, because those were the only things I could for the subjects I was doing.
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Yeh, I got sucked into buying their self branded books, because those were the only things I could for the subjects I was doing.
And were they any good? :P
Btw, that old guy's name is Dr Les Michael, if you guys were interested :P
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Yeh, I got sucked into buying their self branded books, because those were the only things I could for the subjects I was doing.
And were they any good? :P
Btw, that old guy's name is Dr Les Michael, if you guys were interested :P
Again goes to show how people skills > PhD
I took one of the SSRC self branded study guides to my tutor for my English text (Cosi), and she went through it with me showing me all the bad techniques that they used in their sample essays and warned me that I should never use them. So I guess it kinda was useful haha...rather hilarious actually.
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Did you end up buying study guides from anywhere else ?
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Did you end up buying study guides from anywhere else ?
Nah, not really. It is kind of different with science subjects. Heaps of resources are already floating around. Just look around and I'm sure you'll find some decent stuff. :)
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Should I bother doing practice exams from previous years if my subjects have new study designs ?
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Should I bother doing practice exams from previous years if my subjects have new study designs ?
Yeah, definitely...especially becuase there already aren't many resources for your subjects available.
The format of the exam may be altered, but overall I wouldn't expect too much change in terms of content. They may add in a few new bits or take out something, but in general past exams still have lots of relevant questions and are probably your most useful resource.
yeah SSRC is pretty dodgy in general; though i've had pretty bad customer service at A&G sometimes
Oh god A&G...I went there at the start of the year and put a deposit on a book that I ordered. They call me like six months later saying it has arrived. Total morons.
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if you're going to CAE, why not ask your teachers for practice exams? most of the teachers i've known there are experienced and connected to one of the organisations for teachers of their subject (vate, vaps, mltav, cav et al).
btw, what's your lote?
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Next year will be my first year at CAE, and the LOTE is Arabic.
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oh well, you'll have plenty of time during the year to suss out practice options from the teachers or from other sources. having them now won't be much chop without the context of the course content suitably digested.
when you do start the year, don't forget about building C. there're small kitchens there where you can have lunch on the cheap, and it's a quiet place to study.
oh, and good luck with the arabic!