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Bio exam hierarchy?
« on: April 14, 2012, 07:57:01 pm »
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Out of all the companies (VCAA, Stav, insight, neap, tsfx etc + any I forgot?) ...what would you guys rank them, in resemblance to VCAA??
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Re: Bio exam hierarchy?
« Reply #1 on: April 14, 2012, 11:03:42 pm »
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well I didn't do any past exam papers for unit3 bio except one the night b4 (regrets :'() but for chemistry i found the neap ones pretty good so i would assume they are good for bio as well...

I have not done the other exams you have mentioned so i can't really help with that

however my advice would be to do the non-VCAA ones first to get an idea of what you know and what you need to concentrate on and then maybe 2 weeks b4 exams begin the VCAA ones


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Re: Bio exam hierarchy?
« Reply #2 on: April 14, 2012, 11:08:36 pm »
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I quite like Neap and STAV :) 

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Re: Bio exam hierarchy?
« Reply #3 on: April 14, 2012, 11:15:42 pm »
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I quite like Neap and STAV :) 

+1, STAV is definitely the best, followed by NEAP and then Insight :)

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« Reply #4 on: April 14, 2012, 11:21:56 pm »
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Thank guys :)

I did Stav 06 tonight and it had some good questions
Definitely need the practise, the SA and their wording is quite specific :p
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Re: Bio exam hierarchy?
« Reply #5 on: April 14, 2012, 11:23:56 pm »
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Sadly, every company has made atleast 1 dud prac exam haha, i remember doing an insight one last year and it farrkkked!

However, insight are still really good! I'd recommend the exam revision series book you can get!

Also, I think CSE weren't too bad either.. :)
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Re: Bio exam hierarchy?
« Reply #6 on: April 15, 2012, 10:48:50 am »
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Sadly, every company has made atleast 1 dud prac exam haha, i remember doing an insight one last year and it farrkkked!

However, insight are still really good! I'd recommend the exam revision series book you can get!

Also, I think CSE weren't too bad either.. :)

I've tried looking for CSE, I know you have to pay for it I think, but where do you get them from? I can't find mention of them anywhere on the internet.
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Re: Bio exam hierarchy?
« Reply #7 on: April 15, 2012, 11:22:47 am »
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Unfortunately, it seems like orders are over!
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« Reply #8 on: April 15, 2012, 02:28:08 pm »
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NEAP questions are interesting :)
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Re: Bio exam hierarchy?
« Reply #9 on: April 15, 2012, 06:28:08 pm »
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I did my second practice exam today, a NEAP one. NEAP seems to have very good and intuitive questions directly related to the study design. :)

I think my next one will be an Insight one.
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Re: Bio exam hierarchy?
« Reply #10 on: April 21, 2012, 02:20:37 pm »
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Insight was my favourite back in VCE, probably followed by neap.

Almost all exams are useful though, i'd recommend in general you stay away from the insanrely and sometime irrelevant-ly hard (TSFX) and that one company that had *extremely* easy questions...cant remember who..

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Re: Bio exam hierarchy?
« Reply #11 on: April 21, 2012, 05:34:28 pm »
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Insight was my favourite back in VCE, probably followed by neap.

Almost all exams are useful though, i'd recommend in general you stay away from the insanrely and sometime irrelevant-ly hard (TSFX) and that one company that had *extremely* easy questions...cant remember who..

I did the Insight 2010 exam and found it quite hard: specific and abstract from VCAA and other exams. I hope the 2011 and 2012 ones are a bit better.
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Re: Bio exam hierarchy?
« Reply #12 on: April 21, 2012, 08:15:49 pm »
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STAV is the most challenging hands down