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Title: Who's starting practice exams!
Post by: jackson1234 on April 08, 2011, 03:48:30 pm
Holidays have started, so anyone going to bother?  ;D ;D
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Post by: luken93 on April 08, 2011, 04:15:03 pm
I've already done a couple :P
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Post by: jackson1234 on April 08, 2011, 04:17:25 pm
yeah you doing vcaa ones or like company ones luken??

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Post by: luken93 on April 08, 2011, 04:25:43 pm
yeah you doing vcaa ones or like company ones luken??
A bit of both
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Post by: Readinya on April 09, 2011, 01:02:53 am
I've printed out about 8-10 at school, and the plan is to start doing some over the holidays. If i haven't covered the course in class yet, then maybe i can learn it myself, or leave those questions for another time.
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Post by: Greatness on April 09, 2011, 01:36:58 pm
I've printed out about 8-10 at school, and the plan is to start doing some over the holidays. If i haven't covered the course in class yet, then maybe i can learn it myself, or leave those questions for another time.
Yep same here, i plan to get through 08 checkpoints then start doing some trials.
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Post by: jane1234 on April 09, 2011, 02:32:19 pm
I'm going to try and learn AOS2 over the holidays... then maybe do about 2 practice exams...
But I'm not sure that will actually happen :P
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Post by: Greatness on April 09, 2011, 02:33:39 pm
I'm going to try and learn AOS2 over the holidays... then maybe do about 2 practice exams...
But I'm not sure that will actually happen :P
XD Same same! I hope to do at least one trial even if its open book :P
Title: Re: Who's starting practice exams!
Post by: jackson1234 on April 09, 2011, 04:29:59 pm
yeah just do open book exams with old exams (within the study design)

how many exams totalled up will you folks do? for chem ?  [ 30? ]
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Post by: Greatness on April 09, 2011, 05:19:32 pm
Ill do as many as i can which would probably be around 20~ depending on how many practice ones i can get.
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Post by: luken93 on April 09, 2011, 06:53:34 pm
I'm going to try and learn AOS2 over the holidays... then maybe do about 2 practice exams...
But I'm not sure that will actually happen :P

You should be fine, it's all on Enzymes/DNA/Proteins, so doing Biol will be a major advantage for you (unfortunately :P)

yeah just do open book exams with old exams (within the study design)

how many exams totalled up will you folks do? for chem ?  [ 30? ]
Yeah I've got about 30ish, so I think you have all of them haha
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Post by: VivaTequila on April 12, 2011, 12:50:53 am
Guess I should start too. We've finished chapters 1~12 so far, and it's expected that we do one practise exam. I plan on revising all the stuff we've covered so far, learning it properly and making sure I understand it, then tackling all the questions in the Chemistry Workbook, then doing maybe 2 practise exams these holidays. I'm decked out with all my other subjects at the moment, and they take definite priority because of looming SAC's when I get back.
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Post by: sanam on April 12, 2011, 06:37:01 pm
its great that everyone is so keen! planning to do AOS2 aswelll!! Sadly i only have vcaa papers, would somebody please be able to share/post some of your exams papers? Would really appreciate it :)
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Post by: Andiio on April 13, 2011, 04:45:26 pm
Anyone finished the Unit 3 course already?
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Post by: Water on April 13, 2011, 04:48:41 pm
Anyone finished the Unit 3 course already?

Hopefully by end of this holidays, 4 chapters more to cram. >;
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Post by: vea on April 13, 2011, 05:04:58 pm
Our school is just finishing up on chapter 8 but I've managed to learn up to chapter 10... how should I tackle enzymes, DNA, protein, pathways and medicine?... They seem much harder. :S
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Post by: luken93 on April 13, 2011, 05:23:15 pm
Hmmm, just go for it. I haven't done Biol, and I'm coping fairly well with the exam Q's related to DNA/Enzymes etc, if you have a look at exams they don't ask anything to out of the ordinary.
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Post by: andy456 on April 13, 2011, 05:29:20 pm
Our school is just finishing up on chapter 8 but I've managed to learn up to chapter 10... how should I tackle enzymes, DNA, protein, pathways and medicine?... They seem much harder. :S
For most of that stuff reading the textbook should be sufficient. These topics are only brief and pretty straight forward
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Post by: Souljette_93 on April 13, 2011, 05:34:58 pm
Practise exams questions on these parts will always be repetitive/similar to each other so you will get the hang of it.
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Post by: scocliffe09 on April 13, 2011, 06:35:03 pm
You may as well start with checkpoints questions and the AOS 1 topic test from lisachem (taken from Cleoxo's awesome database). The most important thing at the moment is to solidify stuff from AOS 1, practice exam-style questions and read up in your textbook so you're prepared for AOS 2.
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Post by: golden on April 20, 2011, 10:49:44 am
Pretty much Biology helps with all of Chapter 12, 13 and part of 14 (Heinemann).
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Post by: pi on April 20, 2011, 02:58:00 pm
I've started practice exams for bio, haven't done any VCAA ones, about 6 so far. Average of 60-80% which is alright for now

This is a chem thread....


Pretty much Biology helps with all of Chapter 12, 13 and part of 14 (Heinemann).
+1, at least bio has some uses!
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Post by: luken93 on April 20, 2011, 03:48:43 pm
I've started practice exams for bio, haven't done any VCAA ones, about 6 so far. Average of 60-80% which is alright for now

This is a chem thread....


Pretty much Biology helps with all of Chapter 12, 13 and part of 14 (Heinemann).
+1, at least bio has some uses!

I don't really think the Bio section goes too in depth though, I've never done Bio but it's very manageable IMO for a non-bio person such as myself :P

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Title: Re: Who's starting practice exams!
Post by: Andiio on April 20, 2011, 04:05:05 pm
I've started practice exams for bio, haven't done any VCAA ones, about 6 so far. Average of 60-80% which is alright for now

This is a chem thread....


Pretty much Biology helps with all of Chapter 12, 13 and part of 14 (Heinemann).
+1, at least bio has some uses!

I don't really think the Bio section goes too in depth though, I've never done Bio but it's very manageable IMO for a non-bio person such as myself :P

Yeah you really don't need any bio knowledge to understand all the concepts well :P

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Title: Re: Who's starting practice exams!
Post by: luken93 on April 20, 2011, 04:15:13 pm
Yeah, and from the exams I've done, they seem to ask the same questions quite often...
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Post by: Greatness on April 20, 2011, 06:13:22 pm
I've started practice exams for bio, haven't done any VCAA ones, about 6 so far. Average of 60-80% which is alright for now

This is a chem thread....


Pretty much Biology helps with all of Chapter 12, 13 and part of 14 (Heinemann).
+1, at least bio has some uses!

I don't really think the Bio section goes too in depth though, I've never done Bio but it's very manageable IMO for a non-bio person such as myself :P

Yeah you really don't need any bio knowledge to understand all the concepts well :P
It means we wont have to learn them :P

I am yet to start a prac exam :/

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Title: Re: Who's starting practice exams!
Post by: luken93 on April 20, 2011, 06:24:15 pm
I've started practice exams for bio, haven't done any VCAA ones, about 6 so far. Average of 60-80% which is alright for now

This is a chem thread....


Pretty much Biology helps with all of Chapter 12, 13 and part of 14 (Heinemann).
+1, at least bio has some uses!

I don't really think the Bio section goes too in depth though, I've never done Bio but it's very manageable IMO for a non-bio person such as myself :P

Yeah you really don't need any bio knowledge to understand all the concepts well :P
It means we wont have to learn them :P

I am yet to start a prac exam :/
tut tut, you don't want me pestering you to do them, even ask wernda if you don't believe I will :P

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Title: Re: Who's starting practice exams!
Post by: man0005 on April 21, 2011, 11:22:47 pm
which year are you guys starting from?
cause i did a 1995 one and some of the questions are very random :P

also what kind of marks have you been getting so far?
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Post by: werdna on April 21, 2011, 11:38:23 pm
tut tut, you don't want me pestering you to do them, even ask wernda if you don't believe I will :P

Yeah... believe me, this guy won't let you off for a day unless he's had a lazy day too ;D
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Post by: luken93 on April 21, 2011, 11:50:57 pm
tut tut, you don't want me pestering you to do them, even ask wernda if you don't believe I will :P

Yeah... believe me, this guy won't let you off for a day unless he's had a lazy day too ;D
me? lazy day? never.

which year are you guys starting from?
cause i did a 1995 one and some of the questions are very random :P

also what kind of marks have you been getting so far?
1995 :o
I bet it had some strange questions haha

And are you asking me about marks? Umm, generally 8-10 for a hard exam, or 0-3 for an easy exam.
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Post by: Greatness on April 21, 2011, 11:54:32 pm
tut tut, you don't want me pestering you to do them, even ask wernda if you don't believe I will :P

Yeah... believe me, this guy won't let you off for a day unless he's had a lazy day too ;D
Tell me about it..... hahah jkes :P
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Post by: luken93 on April 22, 2011, 12:07:41 am
Warning to everyone. If I catch you not working, I will pester you - as these two have so evidently shown above...

Just joking, I really don't mind, I'm not THAT scary
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Post by: burbs on April 23, 2011, 03:50:05 pm
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Post by: burbs on April 23, 2011, 04:00:37 pm
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But luken nice work on actually starting, I'm assuming uni chem is making this all seem much easier?
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Post by: luken93 on April 23, 2011, 08:05:32 pm
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How do I sign up for the Luken93 motivation program?

It's $299 per subject per semester.

But if you call in the next 15 minutes you can get it for only $29. That's right, a crazy $29!

Don't hesitate; call now!

03 9468 330

*actual services rendered are not guaranteed to be effective

That number is missing a digit!

But luken nice work on actually starting, I'm assuming uni chem is making this all seem much easier?
Cheers mate. Umm not really, I finished the course over the holidays but UniChem doesn't really go much into VCE Chem - a bit of Organic here and there but that's about all...
Title: Re: Who's starting practice exams!
Post by: man0005 on April 23, 2011, 08:18:21 pm
anyone have any idea whether we're meant to know the equilibrium stuff and about endo/exothermic reactions?
or is that stuff completely out of the Unit 3 course now?
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Post by: taiga on April 23, 2011, 08:20:56 pm
anyone have any idea whether we're meant to know the equilibrium stuff and about endo/exothermic reactions?
or is that stuff completely out of the Unit 3 course now?

Don't need to know it at all
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Post by: luken93 on April 23, 2011, 08:25:51 pm
anyone have any idea whether we're meant to know the equilibrium stuff and about endo/exothermic reactions?
or is that stuff completely out of the Unit 3 course now?
Yeah that's gone, although I believe it's in Unit 4 taiga?
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Post by: jasoN- on April 23, 2011, 08:26:59 pm
yep definitely thermodynamics and equilibria is unit 4
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Post by: taiga on April 23, 2011, 08:27:25 pm
anyone have any idea whether we're meant to know the equilibrium stuff and about endo/exothermic reactions?
or is that stuff completely out of the Unit 3 course now?
Yeah that's gone, although I believe it's in Unit 4 taiga?

Yeah huuuge in unit 4. Pretty interesting concept though :)
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Post by: luken93 on April 23, 2011, 09:39:08 pm
Coolio

Let's just get through Unit 3 though, OK?
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Post by: 34590 on April 23, 2011, 09:41:40 pm
NO....far from it
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Post by: VivaTequila on April 25, 2011, 04:59:21 pm
Done four these holidays, which is good for me.