ATAR Notes: Forum
QCE Stuff => Queensland Education Discussion => Topic started by: RuiAce on August 05, 2019, 10:12:48 am
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As we get closer to commencing Unit 3 works (where suddenly everything begins to actually matter), we want to make sure you're kept up to date with all matters relevant to your studies.
So to all students and parents (and teachers?) that aren't aware, we wish to let you know that QCAA have now released sample external examinations for ALL General syllabuses, as listed here.
Note that these only apply to general subjects. No external assessment is administered for applied subjects to my knowledge - feel free to correct me if I am wrong.
What does this mean? Perhaps not much at the start, and throughout the year it'll mean more and more. The external assessment alone makes up 25% of your grade in all of your subjects (except mathematics and science, where it makes up 50%). Taking a glance at the papers for your subjects now will hopefully prepare you more for what you'll be examined on later in the year. (Some schools may even base their internal assessments off these loosely?)
On the other hand, towards the end of your studies, these will perhaps mimic your final exam's style the most.
Good luck!
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What do you think about the exams, RuiAce?
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What do you think about the exams, RuiAce?
I mean, I can only really speak for mathematics haha.
Actual layout of the paper (working out space, extra writing space) is just was I was hoping for. Ample writing space provided. Spesh paper has a replicate diagram at the back in case you screw up the original one which is pretty cool.
Quick glance through general/methods/spesh and I felt that 99% of the content was relevant. There's one question (again in spesh) that I'm not too sure about but we shall see.
Not too used to two papers for maths but oh well haha.
MX2 is still harder
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I mean, I can only really speak for mathematics haha.
Actual layout of the paper (working out space, extra writing space) is just was I was hoping for. Ample writing space provided. Spesh paper has a replicate diagram at the back in case you screw up the original one which is pretty cool.
Quick glance through general/methods/spesh and I felt that 99% of the content was relevant. There's one question (again in spesh) that I'm not too sure about but we shall see.
Not too used to two papers for maths but oh well haha.
MX2 is still harder
In he science exams there's also replicate diagrams for that reason which is nice. I'd still be worried about making a mistake on both of them but it's nice that there's a backup