Itute Practice Exams

[skeletalclown]

Okay, I'm running low on VCAA past papers for methods, and I've already done all the third party papers my school has (a grand total of TWO papers , I go to a pretty terrible school), and was wondering about the relevancy of the Itute papers.
I'm achieving upwards of 80-90% for most VCAA papers, but in the one Itute exam I did, I didn't even make 70%. It was ridiculously hard and seemed almost entirely irrelevant to the content of the actual VCAA papers I've been doing.
So, I suppose my questions are twofold. Firstly, how relevant are these Itute papers, and are they even worth doing? (I've seen some people arguing they're not worth it on other threads), and secondly, what should I be doing to prepare? I have a few engage foundation papers left, and the 2013 VCAA paper, but thats about it. My school has no more, and I don't want to just redo things I've already done??

[silverpixeli]

Hey,

iTute are made to be really really hard, in reality not all of the questions on the VCAA exams will be that hard but one or two of them might be. With that said they're good practice for those hard question and if you're getting ~70% that's really great, because it means you're getting value out of the questions and if something similar/easier comes on the day, it will be a piece of cake. That's my opinion on hard exams, though I didn't bother with them because lazy. I just did LOTS of regular ones.

There are the papers from methods back when it was called maths methods without the (CAS) and the exam 1's are almost exactly the same, and the exam 2's are quite similar. I didn't really use them because I had a heap but if you're looking for more questions, yeah. Some questions are no longer relevant but you should be able to tell, or just ask your teacher/consult the study design/check on atarnotes.

[skeletalclown]

Hmmm, I've thought about the pre-CAS methods papers, but as they're designed to be CAS-free I'm a little worried they won't be very good revision for my CAS skills and exam two. The old exam 1's seem pretty good though, but unfortunately I already have quite a lot of exam 1's in the for of atarnotes produced exams, it's CAS stuff I'm really in need of.
Still though, I'll definitely take your advice and check them out. In the mean time, I guess I'll do more itute if I run out of other stuff to do, or if I'm craving an extreme challenge!!
Thanks heaps by the way, and yeah, if anyone knows of any (preferably free), CAS practice exams, It'd be much appreciated!

[GeniDoi]

Yeah, Itute and some of Kilbaha's (I'm looking at you exam 2 2010  ) are significantly more time consuming, if not challenging, than what is to be expected. Personally I still do them but not under timed conditions. They are very good practice exams with the fundamental flaw that every question on it (ie non MC) is an A+ separator (like last years 2014 Q4 c) i) Exam 2 VCAA).

VCAA ones have a single separator at most.