best time to do vcaa exams?

[charmanderp]

Pretty much.

[jaydee]

ill definitely do the 2008 sample this week and hopefully do the 2010 and 2011 maybe this week or next. is it worth redoing an exam later on (eg 7 days after uve done it) to see improvements? or will the fact that ive seen the questions already mean that i wont benefit much?

[Lasercookie]

No matter how well you're doing, I reckon just reading through the answers to the KBT exam (whilst reading the paper) would be beneficial to all.

So i should just do it untimed conditions and open book?

Have more confidence in yourself

I would try it untimed + closed book first (try and finish it in 90 minutes of course though), better to give it a shot and either see if you can do quite well on the exam or to see how many marks you can get when you have no idea about a question. That latter item there is probably the best technique you can learn from these more challenging trials.

[charmanderp]

The KBT exam is extremely difficult and that's coming from someone who's consistently getting 95% and above for other practice exams :p It's not so much that the knowledge is beyond VCE chemistry but it requires you to think really very hard, and it'll take quite some time to finish.