is there any kind of assurance???

[nemolala]

is there any kind of assurance that practice exams really just help you practice and exams made by companies will always be hard but the VCAA exam will never be harder than the companies exams?? (excludes easy prac exams)

because we know that vcaa is easy so left till last but can this be applied to our year...

because i know that since vcaa is easy then our exam also should be, compared to say CSE or whatever. am i right or wrong?

uhmm you get what im saying people??

ta

[shinny]

VCAA can be difficult because they test new types of questions and applications of concepts not seen previously in any trial exams. Practice exams on the other hand tend to be harder due to copying the previous year's VCAA exam and then applying terrible wording, ambiguity, supposedly assumed material which is actually outside of the syllabus and so on to make it more difficult. And that's the reason why VCAA exams eventually seem easy when you do them last - it's because every practice exam just tends to base their exam off the previous years' VCAA one, so you've practically already done the VCAA ones ten times over before you actually do it. And this is why every year, students will inevitably say that their exam was the hardest ever since new material will inevitably pop up that they have not seen before. So no, there's no assurance at all really.

[luffy]

VCAA can be difficult because they test new types of questions and applications of concepts not seen previously in any trial exams. Practice exams on the other hand tend to be harder due to copying the previous year's VCAA exam and then applying terrible wording, ambiguity, supposedly assumed material which is actually outside of the syllabus and so on to make it more difficult. And that's the reason why VCAA exams eventually seem easy when you do them last - it's because every practice exam just tends to base their exam off the previous years' VCAA one, so you've practically already done the VCAA ones ten times over before you actually do it. And this is why every year, students will inevitably say that their exam was the hardest ever since new material will inevitably pop up that they have not seen before. So no, there's no assurance at all really.

+1,

This is why, despite the constant rise of rebuttal, I continue to support the idea of doing VCAA exams first. In doing this, you are doing a completely new exam, without having done similar questions through trial exams, and you can see exactly how you are going in the subject. Also, it allows you to assess whether you are correctly applying the knowledge you have learnt into new concepts, conjurred by the infamous VCAA.