Fair assessment of the exam?

[vcehuge]

-The actual preparation of accounting reports was harder than previous years, there were quite a few more easy marks available i thought, but also a hell of alot more tricks to seperate the top students (especially involved with calculating prepaid expenses/revenue in certain questions)
-I didnt like the question about calculating other expenses, too much effort for only one mark and i wasted time i could have spent on putting more effort into the theories, reminded me of the last question on the methods part 1
-Theory questions were pretty standard, only really unusual one was the define 'trends in liquidity' question
-Exam was also much longer than previous ones, I personally ran out of time and wrote minimal responses for some theory questions

[BoredSatan]

If you look at the 2007 paper.. You'll see how similar the 2 exams are..
I looked at that paper the morning before the exam so when I went in and saw the exact same questions. It didnt take me long to do the exam.

I guess it was a pretty long exam as some of my really strong friends almost didnt finish.. But I had about half an hour to spare in the end to refine all my theory and make sure my calculations were right.

[likeialwaysdo]

it was a good paper overall i think.
it will seperate the top, possibly too long, maybe some of the questions were a bit tedious such as calculating other expenses.
but it didnt go like crazy, it was do-able in the time given. i think there were a good amount of tricks to test us rather than put us off completley.

once again good exam overall, just gnna wait a month now :]

[SJC]

Did you guys hear how Calesta Girls School got 2 hours instead of 90mins. The VCE timkeepers apparently stuffed up. What the hell is wrong with VCAA.

[soccerboi]

Did you guys hear how Calesta Girls School got 2 hours instead of 90mins. The VCE timkeepers apparently stuffed up. What the hell is wrong with VCAA.

Oh damn, thats not fair for us, are vcaa gonna do anything bout it?

[Random_Guy]

I thought that the exam was quite long - I only finished with 2 minutes to spare.  Some of the questions were definitely odd and on the verge of being outside the study design (eg. Calculation of Other Expenses - I thought VCAA said that we would never have to do any calculations involving ratios). Other than that, it wasn't too overly difficult.