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VCE Stuff => Victorian Education Discussion => Topic started by: Mr. Study on April 14, 2011, 06:46:10 pm

Title: Doing practice exams
Post by: Mr. Study on April 14, 2011, 06:46:10 pm: Hello again!

I would like to know if it's worth doing VCAA exams first or Insight, KBT, Lisachem or anyother type of exams?

Thank you very much.
Title: Re: Doing practice exams
Post by: jane1234 on April 14, 2011, 06:53:27 pm: I'd do a couple of VCAA ones first, then the company ones, then the rest of VCAA ones last.
That way you start and finish knowing the standard that they are after...
Title: Re: Doing practice exams
Post by: Zien on April 14, 2011, 06:55:25 pm: Depends on the availability of practice exams I suppose. If there's loads of available (e.g. Methods), then it would probably be good to do a few. But don't overdo it, especially if you haven't learn the material well enough. It'd just be a waste. : / Try and just get a feel for the paper; the length, the type of questions, the expected responses etc.

Edit: Forgot to say, I'd personally save the VCAA ones until the end. Don't save them until you won't have enough time to comfortably finish and review them. They're the best ones you can do (because it's the VCAA exams you're doing and not Lisachem etc.).
Title: Re: Doing practice exams
Post by: Mr. Study on April 14, 2011, 07:02:46 pm: Ahh, Thanks jane1234 and Zien.

I guess I'll have to print out quite a fair bit of VCAA and Lisachem/Insight/KBT/Other exams and do a VCAa 2008 exam and see what I get wrong and then do the other types of exams.

Looks like my wallet will take a beat... :(
Title: Re: Doing practice exams
Post by: xZero on April 14, 2011, 07:15:42 pm: Do the hardest available exam first, prepare to be shocked by the amount of marks you loss. Use this as a motivator to do shit tons of exams (all except VCAA), if you made a silly mistake, keep telling yourself that you won't make it again while doing the next exam. If you keep going, you won't make any silly mistakes by the exam day.

About ~5 days before the actual exam, redo the first exam and see how much you improved then do couple of VCAA exams to get a huge confident boost.

(thats what I did for method/spesh, it seems to work for me at least :) )
Title: Re: Doing practice exams
Post by: Mr. Study on April 14, 2011, 07:23:59 pm: Thanks for that optimistic reply, makes me feel better about the practice exam I did a week ago and wasn't really sure whether I should've done it or not.

Only got a 19% and decided to crack the whip and be harder on myself. :2funny:

Thanks for the advice and I will be taking it onboard. :)
Title: Re: Doing practice exams
Post by: Zien on April 14, 2011, 07:25:00 pm: Which subject is this by the way?
Title: Re: Doing practice exams
Post by: Souljette_93 on April 14, 2011, 07:29:38 pm: I would VCAA till last. After doing practice exams, you'll find them to be a lot easier than the ones you are doing.
Title: Re: Doing practice exams
Post by: Mr. Study on April 15, 2011, 07:20:22 pm: Sorry for not replying Zien, It's Chemistry and Biology only. :)
Title: Re: Doing practice exams
Post by: taiga on April 16, 2011, 11:54:14 am: You could actually do old study design VCAA, but I'd advise strongly against doing anything on the new study design now.