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Title: Checkpoints:
Post by: lazaward on December 22, 2017, 09:20:55 am
Does checkpoints spoil VCAA exams when the time has come to start practicing full exams? I found checkpoints really helpful in year 11 but should I just use outside resources to practice for SACs?
Title: Re: Checkpoints:
Post by: Bri MT on December 22, 2017, 09:33:41 am
I would continue to use checkpoints anyway. You don't need every VCAA exam to be completely unseen until you're ready to do whole papers.

My teacher (who lectures at TSSM) would regularly expose us to exam questions despite not completing the paper yet. However, this wasn't done for any question on the 2016 exam which she wanted to be all new. I believe that checkpoints doesn't show questions from the most recent exam throughout the book and instead keeps them all at the end.
Title: Re: Checkpoints:
Post by: Sine on December 22, 2017, 10:18:04 am
Does checkpoints spoil VCAA exams when the time has come to start practicing full exams? I found checkpoints really helpful in year 11 but should I just use outside resources to practice for SACs?
yeah they do "spoil" vcaa exams, whether that is alright or not is really up to you.
If you want to keep VCAA exams unseen you can get an older copy of checkpoints. E.g. I had 2007 specialist maths checkpoints in 2016.
Title: Re: Checkpoints:
Post by: TylerD9 on December 22, 2017, 10:23:52 am
What even are these checkpoints? I always hear about them but I'm not sure what they actually are! Google tells me they're just study guides, what's so bad about them?
Title: Re: Checkpoints:
Post by: sweetcheeks on December 22, 2017, 10:36:57 am
What even are these checkpoints? I always hear about them but I'm not sure what they actually are! Google tells me they're just study guides, what's so bad about them?
They are not bad. They are study guides that group questions (from past VCAA exams and their own) by topics. They are really handy for preparing before an assessment or revising an area where you have trouble.
Title: Re: Checkpoints:
Post by: TylerD9 on December 22, 2017, 11:01:59 am
They are not bad. They are study guides that group questions (from past VCAA exams and their own) by topics. They are really handy for preparing before an assessment or revising an area where you have trouble.

So would it be worth buying some for unit 1/2 subjects?
Title: Re: Checkpoints:
Post by: cookiedream on December 22, 2017, 11:06:31 am
So would it be worth buying some for unit 1/2 subjects?
Personally, maybe not for units 1/2, since a lot of what makes up 3/4 methods and spesh comes up in 1/2. If you want practice material (on top of doing chapter review questions), you can ask your teacher for extension work and/or look up the 3/4 exams and do questions that encompass content you've learnt so far ;D
Title: Re: Checkpoints:
Post by: TylerD9 on December 22, 2017, 11:09:13 am
Personally, maybe not for units 1/2, since a lot of what makes up 3/4 methods and spesh comes up in 1/2. If you want practice material (on top of doing chapter review questions), you can ask your teacher for extension work and/or look up the 3/4 exams and do questions that encompass content you've learnt so far ;D

Thank you, but what about for chem and business?
Title: Re: Checkpoints:
Post by: cookiedream on December 22, 2017, 11:37:23 am
Thank you, but what about for chem and business?

Off-topic, since this is in the VCE Mathematics board
Same for chem imo. Didn't do bus man, so I can't give an opinion on that, unfortunately.
Title: Re: Checkpoints:
Post by: TylerD9 on December 22, 2017, 12:01:37 pm
Off-topic, since this is in the VCE Mathematics board
Same for chem imo. Didn't do bus man, so I can't give an opinion on that, unfortunately.

Thank you
Title: Re: Checkpoints:
Post by: Yertle the Turtle on December 22, 2017, 04:25:18 pm
Unless you repeatedly practice your techniques and methods throughout the year, they will not stick in your long-term memory. That is why doing these Checkpoints questions throughout the year is useful. It will not spoil the VCAA previous exams because only a sprinkling of questions from each previous exam will be in there, so only a couple of questions from each individual exam. That is why Checkpoints are such a great resource.