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Title: psyched for june 9?
Post by: Spreadbury on May 23, 2010, 10:11:54 pm
sorry about the bad pun. i'm still getting a few embarrassing mistakes on practice exams, and i'm finding analysing those pictures where they ask what gestalt principles are used. anybody else have trouble with those? any tips?
Title: Re: psyched for june 9?
Post by: akira88 on May 23, 2010, 10:16:33 pm
sorry about the bad pun. i'm still getting a few embarrassing mistakes on practice exams, and i'm finding analysing those pictures where they ask what gestalt principles are used. anybody else have trouble with those? any tips?
You're not the only one doing a few embarrassing mistakes!
I check the answers and I go, "WHAT I'M WRONG? THERE MUST BE AN ERROR IN THE ANSWERS (lol)" then I realise I was actually wrong :(
At least we still have time to improve :)
Title: Re: psyched for june 9?
Post by: Glockmeister on May 23, 2010, 10:28:05 pm
Indeed, good luck guys.
Title: Re: psyched for june 9?
Post by: Transcendent on May 23, 2010, 10:51:11 pm
Keep making loads of silly errors in multiple choice...ending up with so many 82/90s :(
Title: Re: psyched for june 9?
Post by: hawks08 on May 24, 2010, 08:06:34 am
I am trying hard tp find time to study although I find hard as I have got 3 SACs this week. I suppose 1 of them is psych(states of consciouness) which only leaves me 2 other AOS to study? Anyone else who is doing psych, are you guys learning the definition of terms or not?
Title: Re: psyched for june 9?
Post by: littlebecc on May 24, 2010, 02:37:02 pm
Yah lyke totz psyched.
Um
I kid

But i haven't done any trial exams yet...not to mention haven't done ERA(next week) let alone don't know how to write one...   :\
Oh and we haven't finished visual perception and HTGOIRNJKLDOEPJNLKS!!!!!!!!!!!111111
That's how i feel right now. Plus i'm sick.
WOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO
Title: Re: psyched for june 9?
Post by: Visionz on May 24, 2010, 03:04:44 pm
Ive made a few mistakes on multiple choice questions. Is ok though because theyve been the ambiguous questions that I went WTF at while I was answering them. Can only recall getting one question wrong because I read it incorrectly. Still working on taking that step up from a couple of things wrong, to 100% right.
Title: Re: psyched for june 9?
Post by: littlebecc on May 24, 2010, 03:37:09 pm
visionz 4 50 in psych? i think so
Title: Re: psyched for june 9?
Post by: Visionz on May 24, 2010, 04:36:57 pm
visionz 4 50 in psych? i think so

Doubt it. I got like 91/100 for my unit 3 sacs.
Title: Re: psyched for june 9?
Post by: littlebecc on May 24, 2010, 06:21:53 pm
Still. Have you done brain and nervous system sac yet?
Howd you go in VP?
Title: Re: psyched for june 9?
Post by: Visionz on May 24, 2010, 07:02:44 pm
Ive done all 3 SACs. I dropped 7 on that VP SAC. Fkd me over.
Title: Re: psyched for june 9?
Post by: littlebecc on May 24, 2010, 07:36:58 pm
Shit man, i haven't even done VP ERA yet :(
Stressin...

Find out your brain one yet?
Title: Re: psyched for june 9?
Post by: Spreadbury on May 24, 2010, 09:35:56 pm
Shit man, i haven't even done VP ERA yet :(
Stressin...

Find out your brain one yet?

do you have to do some form of experiment for your ERA sac? we did but i'm not sure if everyone's the same
Title: Re: psyched for june 9?
Post by: littlebecc on May 25, 2010, 08:16:44 am
Yeah spread, we're doing the mull-lyer illusion or whatever its called.
I missed a class so i dont really know...ha
Title: Re: psyched for june 9?
Post by: Cthulhu on May 25, 2010, 08:45:36 am
OH NOW I GET IT.

I just didn't know what forum this was in
Carry on.


































Good luck with your psychology exam I'm sure you'll...PSYCH  ;)
Title: Re: psyched for june 9?
Post by: littlebecc on May 25, 2010, 04:33:38 pm
Allan.......sit the text for me?
Kthxbi
Title: Re: psyched for june 9?
Post by: littlebecc on May 25, 2010, 04:33:56 pm
Shit i meant test*
Title: Re: psyched for june 9?
Post by: sillysmile on May 25, 2010, 04:38:42 pm
i'm doing pretty good for psych :)
so far 97% average for two sacs, going to get the results for the third tomorrow i hope.
Title: Re: psyched for june 9?
Post by: teebagger* on May 25, 2010, 04:47:14 pm
Speaking of SACs... this *person* was copying pretty much everything off my SAC. I go to a shithole school so my teacher doesn't really care. If said *person* gets better than me, what do I do? Besides kick the crap out of them?
Title: Re: psyched for june 9?
Post by: akira88 on May 25, 2010, 04:51:06 pm
Speaking of SACs... this *person* was copying pretty much everything off my SAC. I go to a shithole school so my teacher doesn't really care. If said *person* gets better than me, what do I do? Besides kick the crap out of them?
Omg that sucks. If I notice anyone doing that, I cover my page with my arm as much as I can XD
But don't you have to sit in "test formation" (as what my school calls it)? So the person can't see your work? :O
Title: Re: psyched for june 9?
Post by: teebagger* on May 25, 2010, 04:59:05 pm
Speaking of SACs... this *person* was copying pretty much everything off my SAC. I go to a shithole school so my teacher doesn't really care. If said *person* gets better than me, what do I do? Besides kick the crap out of them?
Omg that sucks. If I notice anyone doing that, I cover my page with my arm as much as I can XD
But don't you have to sit in "test formation" (as what my school calls it)? So the person can't see your work? :O
It does. And what's worse? This *person* is my 'friend'. And was being stingy as fuck and actually wouldn't let me copy their SAC wtf. *rages*
We do sit in a test formation (2 people on either side of a 2 person table) but yeah, they could still see my multiple choice. And noticed what I drew for visual depth cues or something.
Grrrrrrrr. The student teacher even heard them practically hissing at me for answers but did nothing. :x
Title: Re: psyched for june 9?
Post by: miss_academia on May 25, 2010, 08:10:39 pm
I have twenty-one practice exams sitting in my room, have done two. I'm a third of the way through Checkpoints, third of the way through Revise in a Month, and have three SACs within the next week. But I still retain hope.
Title: Re: psyched for june 9?
Post by: ChairmanMao on May 25, 2010, 08:25:29 pm
Andrew(Spreadbury), stop throwing my pens and paper off the floor.
15 days left until the exam, I'm excited LOL.
@miss_academia, if you dont want those exams, feel free to post em to me =]
Title: Re: psyched for june 9?
Post by: alannah on May 26, 2010, 06:04:40 pm
We haven't finished States of Consciousness yet. Is anyone else still learning the course work?
Title: Re: psyched for june 9?
Post by: Visionz on May 26, 2010, 06:09:23 pm
Im still supposed to be learning research methods. Picked up a little bit and could probably wing it but I havent done anything in class on it.
Title: Re: psyched for june 9?
Post by: littlebecc on May 26, 2010, 06:15:55 pm
Quote
We haven't finished States of Consciousness yet. Is anyone else still learning the course work?
Just finished visual perception on Tuesday but haven't started draft or anything on ERA besides collecting raw data... frankly i don't really know what i'm doing for it :\
Next Thursdays the ERA so...

Oh, and we have a practice exam thing tomorrow in class. 
Title: Re: psyched for june 9?
Post by: lolbox on May 26, 2010, 06:25:13 pm
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We haven't finished States of Consciousness yet. Is anyone else still learning the course work?
Just finished visual perception on Tuesday but haven't started draft or anything on ERA besides collecting raw data... frankly i don't really know what i'm doing for it :\
Next Thursdays the ERA so...

Oh, and we have a practice exam thing tomorrow in class. 

wow still on visual perception? have you started states of consciousness or did you just do it in a different order with visual perception last
Title: Re: psyched for june 9?
Post by: littlebecc on May 26, 2010, 06:30:53 pm
We did states of consciousness first.
Title: Re: psyched for june 9?
Post by: alannah on May 26, 2010, 07:00:23 pm
Hopefully everything has been covered for all of us in time for the exam. Until then, I'm teaching myself at home so class work can consolidate what I've learnt. 14 days!

@littlebecc good luck with the ERA  :)
Title: Re: psyched for june 9?
Post by: littlebecc on May 26, 2010, 07:03:24 pm
Thanks alannah, good luck with your studying as well :)
Title: Re: psyched for june 9?
Post by: minilunchbox on May 26, 2010, 07:32:36 pm
We still haven't covered everything on sleep (states of consciousness) :/
Title: Re: psyched for june 9?
Post by: littlebecc on May 26, 2010, 07:41:38 pm
Mini- what are you up to in sleep?
Title: Re: psyched for june 9?
Post by: minilunchbox on May 26, 2010, 09:51:15 pm
We have to do methods used to study sleep, effects of sleep deprivation and sleep phenomena. I also have a SAC tomorrow, bah. 
Title: Re: psyched for june 9?
Post by: littlebecc on May 26, 2010, 10:09:31 pm
Psych sac? :o
Wow, you have a fair bit to go but i'm sure you'll be fine...good luck!
Title: Re: psyched for june 9?
Post by: Visionz on May 26, 2010, 11:36:33 pm
just did the 2008 VCAA one. Got 83/84. 99%, The question I got wrong was one I got wrong the other day too. >.< Its really out of 90, 2 marks I think I got right but the assessors report is shady so I wont count them either way and the other 4 I didnt do because I havent done research methods yet. 83/90 is still an A+ judging by the grade distribution anyway. Hopefully the 2010 one is about the same.
Title: Re: psyched for june 9?
Post by: littlebecc on May 27, 2010, 05:41:19 pm
can you link the grade distribution stuff?
Title: Re: psyched for june 9?
Post by: akira88 on May 27, 2010, 08:42:55 pm
can you link the grade distribution stuff?
http://www.vcaa.vic.edu.au/vcaa/vce/statistics/2009/statssect3.html
Title: Re: psyched for june 9?
Post by: littlebecc on May 27, 2010, 10:46:51 pm
thanks akira :D
Title: Re: psyched for june 9?
Post by: littlebecc on May 27, 2010, 10:52:08 pm
ermm just looked on the site
in psychology....it says 163-180 for a+

Does that mean you could loose 17 marks on the exam? That isn't right....UM what someone explain ploise lol.
Title: Re: psyched for june 9?
Post by: minilunchbox on May 27, 2010, 11:31:20 pm
Exams are marked by 2 people and they add up the marks because the actual exam is out of 90. So to get an A+ you could only lose 8.5 marks, not 17.
Title: Re: psyched for june 9?
Post by: hawks08 on May 28, 2010, 11:07:57 pm
pretty pumped for mid years. havnt reallly had time to start studying but i already know the knowledge of AOS3 as we just had the SAC. I think i will get about 90% for it :). First SAC i really didnt have time to study for as I had 2 other SACs the same day and got 78% while on the second SAC I improved and got 88or 89%. Are you guys sitting the exam going to spent a lot of time on defintions? I looked through past exams and found almost none but I feel i could be caught out if defintions are asked and i spent 100% of my time on concepts. What should I do?
Title: Re: psyched for june 9?
Post by: Transcendent on May 28, 2010, 11:39:01 pm
The definition of a visual illusion is pretty essential, it turns up in so many of the practice exams i've done...

Concerning definitions, the ones i've seen frequently are either describing a neuroimaging technique, Gestalt principles, depth cues, sleep phenomena and sleep disorders. You should know each one but don't spend all your time just on definitions...