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Bill Ding

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Practise Exams
« on: May 22, 2012, 09:20:49 pm »
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Is it normal to get 50% or lower on my first practice chemistry exam or do i need a lot of work?
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Re: Practise Exams
« Reply #1 on: May 22, 2012, 09:23:10 pm »
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Quote from: Bill Ding on May 22, 2012, 09:20:49 pm
Is it normal to get 50% or lower on my first practice chemistry exam or do i need a lot of work?


Have you finished the course yet?
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Re: Practise Exams
« Reply #2 on: May 23, 2012, 12:41:45 pm »
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I am one lesson from finishing
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Re: Practise Exams
« Reply #3 on: May 23, 2012, 04:36:39 pm »
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i got 56% on a biology one (we haven't finished the course yet) and only spent 36 mins on it :s
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Re: Practise Exams
« Reply #4 on: May 23, 2012, 05:06:19 pm »
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I think its normal! The first one i did i prob got about 30% hahahahaa XD
The next one i got 70%. ive only done two.
Its a learning process! :)
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Re: Practise Exams
« Reply #5 on: May 27, 2012, 03:37:26 pm »
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Yea im gradually improving
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Re: Practise Exams
« Reply #6 on: May 27, 2012, 05:57:15 pm »
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When I started off with exams, I normally got 50s/70 for both Bio & Chem for the first few.

6-7 exams into Bio, I'm pulling mid-high 60s/70s.

Around 15-20 exams into Chem, I'm starting to pull in the high 60s-low 70s/70.

It's normal to do badly at first if you haven't been exposed to the sort of questions they ask you, but if you do more questions and learn from them, you'll improve very quickly.

On a side note did anybody find STAV Bio papers very difficult when they first started lol
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Re: Practise Exams
« Reply #7 on: May 27, 2012, 06:07:11 pm »
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Yes for chem lol
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« Reply #8 on: May 27, 2012, 06:33:02 pm »
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yeah i'm hating the stav ones for bio... its all i really have ><
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Re: Practise Exams
« Reply #9 on: May 27, 2012, 10:28:18 pm »
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got like 40/75 on my first one. I'm starting to think my teacher made the SACs extremely easy....
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Re: Practise Exams
« Reply #10 on: May 27, 2012, 10:57:12 pm »
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Quote from: Stephan_ on May 27, 2012, 10:28:18 pm
got like 40/75 on my first one. I'm starting to think my teacher made the SACs extremely easy....

my theory (excuse) is that the sacs for chem were so focused on specific things that were like... 10% of the course while the exam assumes knowledge of evvvvvvverything. eg Esters I know like the back of my hand but everything else is such a fail hahaha XD
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Re: Practise Exams
« Reply #11 on: May 28, 2012, 09:50:00 pm »
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I wouldn't worry about your first exam mark to be honest. Take it as a learning experience in how the questions are asked and what the areas of study used in questions are. Once you hit about the 10th you will start to see the differences.
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Re: Practise Exams
« Reply #12 on: May 29, 2012, 09:52:43 am »
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Wait what company did you do it from? That can change things a lot.
I think I got about 82?% on my first one but I can't remember which one it was - I don't think I started off with the harder ones.

After doing a certain amount you don't necessarily do better from doing more exams. Like 10-20 I think is a good capping point.
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