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VCE Stuff => VCE Science => VCE Mathematics/Science/Technology => VCE Subjects + Help => VCE Biology => Topic started by: WhoTookMyUsername on January 24, 2011, 08:58:36 pm
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Cleoxo's practice exam collection is awesome and i'll give him a *s---load* of karma as soon as i can :D but it would be impossible for any one
human to compile every single practice exam for biology 3/4 : ) If anyone has any links or hosting it would be HUGELY appreciated if you can post it here!
Thanking you in advance
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Go to VCAA for official past exams (but you probably already have).
Hope it helps! :)
(btw isn't it a bit early for prac exams? -not that I did many :( )
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Have you got the ones on here?
(btw isn't it a bit early for prac exams? -not that I did many :( )
...and still got a 42 :P
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Have you got the ones on here? And go to VCAA for official past exams (but you probably already have).
Hope it helps! :)
(btw isn't it a bit early for prac exams? -not that I did many :( )
I did my first practice exam today. fml got about 50%
Its a bit early to do practice exams. You will run out papers to do by the exam period. I highly suggest that you take more time into revising concepts and have a wider reading of the material rather than doing past papers.
This is because you may not fully understand the questions, hence your 50%, and then when you redo the question you will already know the answer.
There are various e-books and three different biology textbooks (Nelson, Heinamenn and Nature of Biology) which you should read.
Last year I owned all three books and found that each one explain something differently which made my understanding of the fundamentals much clearer.
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I have been compiling all the exams for my subjects too!! ;D Going to be abusing a whole lot of paper this year. Probably print two on a page though... ;)
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Im doing the same subjects as youuuu, WhoTookMyUsername :laugh:
YAYAY
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Im doing the same subjects as youuuu, WhoTookMyUsername :laugh:
YAYAY
:D :D :D :D
Good Luck ! (but not as good as mine ;) )
haha, thanks. :D
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Unless you've actually covered the course, WAAAAAYYYY too early to start prac exams... pointless really
+1, might even lose some morale with potential low scores...
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There are more exams on this thread and a couple on this thread and this thread.
Haven't seen many Neap or A+ ones though...
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Hey,
I've attached a copy of the 2007 Neap unit 3 trial exam, which I'm pretty sure I found in
Cleoxo's folder. I have pretty much exhausted the full range of unit 3 trial exams offered
on this site and managed to dig up about 60. But I was too lackadaisical and have only
managed to do 15 so far :P
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have only managed to do 15 so far :P
Most students don't even do that many before exams. At this rate you will complete all the exams you've managed to find.
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have only managed to do 15 so far :P
I didn't even do 15 exams in the whole year (big mistake, mid you)!
I really think it is too early to be doing exams though
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have only managed to do 15 so far :P
I didn't even do 15 exams in the whole year (big mistake, mid you)!
I really think it is too early to be doing exams though
Agreed unless you've had someone teach the entire unit to you comprehensively.
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Haha nah I covered units 3 and 4 biology along with units 1 and 2 last year lol ;D
I guess I got bored and this year I pretty much revised most of the course so that's
why I am starting to do practice exams.
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Sheeez. 3 + 4. I understand why you would cover unit 3 now, but it's a bit early for unit 4 imo - i would probably forget everything by the time semester 2 starts :/
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Sheeez. 3 + 4. I understand why you would cover unit 3 now, but it's a bit early for unit 4 imo - i would probably forget everything by the time semester 2 starts :/
+1.
Considered it for Unit 4 (Psych) but it's useless really and as this forum asserts: the amount of work you do doesn't always reflect in your SS. Besides you run the risk of getting severely bored!
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my advice for bio,
is not to learn the whole course before
bio is soo interesting, youll bore yourself if you do this.
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Haha yeah I see what you mean. Though in my opinion I just love biology
and doing this enables me to explore the subject in a greater depth
by giving me the freedom to explore different textbooks such as the
IB's ;D
Apparently some of their course pertains to our course work.
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You seem really motivated and passioate about bio! Good luck :)
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just wondering where Cleoxo's practice exams thread is. And wow some of you guys have done so much already :/ I thought i was doing tell with some unit 3 notes.
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just wondering where Cleoxo's practice exams thread is. And wow some of you guys have done so much already :/ I thought i was doing tell with some unit 3 notes.
http://www.mediafire.com/cleoxo
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Not sure about stav, lisachem or insight
What do you mean?
In my opinion I thought that the STAV, Lisachem and Insight were quiet decent
conversely the TSSM exams were atrocious though :P.
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I liked the Lisachem ones, were usually fairly easy and straightforward. Neap and TSFX were kinda annoying cos they had irrelevant stuff. Insight was good. I was never really a fan of STAV and TSSM.
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Not sure about stav, lisachem or insight
What do you mean?
In my opinion I thought that the STAV, Lisachem and Insight were quiet decent
conversely the TSSM exams were atrocious though :P.
In order:
VCAA
STAV
Neap
Insight
TSFX
TSSM
Never looked at A+ or Lisachem ones (looked at an Insight, but never did it...)
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TSSM and TSFX worst exams, do not even attempt these they will waste your time.
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TSSM and TSFX worst exams, do not even attempt these they will waste your time.
Agree. Especially TSFX. Lisachem, also, tediously easy.
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TSSM and TSFX worst exams, do not even attempt these they will waste your time.
Agree. Especially TSFX. Lisachem, also, tediously easy.
I agree with lexitu; TSFX has the most random, useless questions. To be honest, I just did all the VCAA ones, and very few of the others - like, maybe 2 each of CSE and STAV for each semester - they were so irrelevant and badly written that they were just a waste of time
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I agree with lexitu; TSFX has the most random, useless questions. To be honest, I just did all the VCAA ones, and very few of the others - like, maybe 2 each of CSE and STAV for each semester - they were so irrelevant and badly written that they were just a waste of time
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And yet did so well in biology! So aside from the exams what else did you do to study for the subject?
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doing practice exams at this stage is completely overdoing it imo
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ah kewlios
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I'm going on a tangent, but is the immune system a fairly easy topic to cover on your own? I hear schools rarely finish the course, let alone help students do practise exams.
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really? i thought so...
apparently immune systems is easier than the cellular energetics stuff. i dont think itll be that bad but my textbook has so many gross pictures in them of diseases like small pox. i had to cover all the pics with squared colour paper ==
with regards to exam papers, i heard that STAV is pretty bad.
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Haha lol
let me guess nature of biology?
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Yeh, most schools won't finish. The immune system can be quite difficult if you look into it too much. None of the textbooks give a complete picture because it's too complex. So it won't fully make sense and most of you will naturally try to go further than what's there, but it's not necessary. Just stay naive, pass the exam with a superficial understanding and leave it until uni to understand the rest :) There's really only a few key concepts they test within it anyway. Just do many practice exams and you'll soon realise what those are (e.g. primary and secondary antibody responses always comes up).
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Haha lol
let me guess nature of biology?
nah Nelson. its so yucky
couldnt they just draw a cartoon version :(
biozone has one too of small pox, but its really small so its not as overwhelming xD
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Haha lol,
Hey PhilDunphy do you happen to have a pdf copy of nelson by any chance?
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yash i do. its too big for email tho.
ill see if i can post it up here. which chapter do u need most
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could you perhaps upload it onto rapidshare and post link?
Thanks heaps in advance :D
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Yeh, most schools won't finish. The immune system can be quite difficult if you look into it too much. None of the textbooks give a complete picture because it's too complex. So it won't fully make sense and most of you will naturally try to go further than what's there, but it's not necessary. Just stay naive, pass the exam with a superficial understanding and leave it until uni to understand the rest :) There's really only a few key concepts they test within it anyway. Just do many practice exams and you'll soon realise what those are (e.g. primary and secondary antibody responses always comes up).
ah i see. thanks for the advice
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could you perhaps upload it onto rapidshare and post link?
Thanks heaps in advance :D
i dont noe how to upload to rapidshare. ill just do it here
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oh haha cool thanks for that :D
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http://vce.atarnotes.com/forum/index.php/topic,28715.0.html
has some bio exams. Under 'Biology Unit 3&4 (2007-2010)", some of the exams were copied twice within the .rar file; the second copy works but the first copy of the exams have errors.