2012 will be the final year of VCE mid-year examinations

[Camo]

Personally I'd believe the subjects with newer study designs won't be altered so much, but ones with older ones will.

A lot of changes would need to be made to get this to work though. I wonder where they will swap the GAT to.

[LOLs99]

So we can't work through those older prac exams?

[stonecold]

So we can't work through those older prac exams?

Yeah you can.  You'll just have to do them either untimed or to the time set at the front.  This will keep you working at the right pace, even though the duration of past exams is different.

[orangejuice]

This is going to be horrible for biology 2013
Damn you VCAA.

[jaydee]

psychology just had a new study design this year. With a 2-2.5 hour exam it's impossible to examine all parts of the course and make it possible to complete it in that time frame. If nothing is changed for psych students of '13 then they'll be in for a rough time

[orangejuice]

If they are really going to implement this, I think they should adjust the weighting of the end of year exams by adding more SACs...66% is just too much in my opinion. Imagine the pressure this would add to an already stressful period that year 12 is.

[jaydee]

i definitely agree. any subject with only 1 exam should have 50% of study score allocated to sac marks and the other 50% for exam.

[playsimme]

This is a disaster really. Fine, if it was an end of year exam worth 50% like a usual subject, it would be more of a good thing. But 66%?! Really?! That is a terrible weighting because it means that if someone underperforms then their sacs throughout the entire year have less chance to save their ass. Honestly sacs did save my ass this year and it's sad because I know for one I naturally underperform in the exam room due to stress. I can't imagine doing a years worth of sacs and it only counting for 33%.

[WhoTookMyUsername]

that's what currently occurs for all subjects with a midyears though. 34% for a years worth of SACs

[CaiTheHuman]

Exams in other education systems have worked flawlessy . From my experience doing first year I.B biology. It is not that difficult to cover a whole year's work of content into one . It's not going to be a diaster. It will also give students a first hand experience of what university timed exams are like. (Even tho they are longer)They get 1 month to cover content in which we take 11-12 months to cover.