How many exams have you guys done so far?

[pi]

Hey Markkiieee, as I said before this probably applies to you too:

You still have time to prepare! Seeing as though it should be all days off from now to exam (I think), you should do 4-5 exams per day and you should be alright after that

Short term pain for long term gain mate

[Markkiieee]

Hey Markkiieee, as I said before this probably applies to you too:

You still have time to prepare! Seeing as though it should be all days off from now to exam (I think), you should do 4-5 exams per day and you should be alright after that

Short term pain for long term gain mate

Yup.

No stress.

[lukeim]

12 papers... it's hard to focus on bio exam when you have other mid-years as well

[golden]

Hey Markkiieee, as I said before this probably applies to you too:

You still have time to prepare! Seeing as though it should be all days off from now to exam (I think), you should do 4-5 exams per day and you should be alright after that

Short term pain for long term gain mate

I find that amazing coming from you lol for Bio!

Wouldn't you die after doing 5 exams in a day? At most for my mid years I did 2 a day and that was a one off.

[WhoTookMyUsername]

Depends how thoroughly you do them. Of course if you take the full 90 + 15 and take 30 minutes to mark your exam (not outrageous) then you're not going to be able to do 5 a day

[nisha]

In my opinion, practise exams provide a base level in which you can see what an examiner looks for and what to write to get full marks. Doing heaps of practise exams DOES help in understand your knowledge and building on from that, but there are alot of concepts THAT ARE NOT TESTED in exams, and just because they do not come up in the practise exams, does not mean that it will not come on the midyear one. Remember, its the last midyear ...they can throw anything at you.

On the other hand, it all depends on how YOU PERFORM ON THE DAY. If you have done 60+ exams, but have a nervous breakdown the day before, you are not in a great mindset to do the exam. Bottom line: Relax. You can only do your best, accept that, and keep breathing.

[ligands]

I got an a on last years vcaa

[Markkiieee]

I got an a on last years vcaa

What % was that?

[ligands]

I got an a on last years vcaa

What % was that?

i hope it was an A, i think it was 83%

[Sapphire]

Sorry to sway a bit off topic, but I tend to write outside the lines when I'm doing practice exams.
On the real exam, what happens if you write extra, do the assessors still look at it?
I should try and write smaller...

[duhherro]

Do you guys just go through over the main exams (vcaa, stav, neap) after you complete most of the trials and see what you got wrong and just keep remembering it for convenience?

[Comatose]

uhhh ive only done one LOL, and scored soooo bad, what do you guys suggest the most effective and quickest way to approach this subject? start the vcaa's?

[ligands]

uhhh ive only done one LOL, and scored soooo bad, what do you guys suggest the most effective and quickest way to approach this subject? start the vcaa's?

at this stage do all the revelant vcaa ones then do the 2011 insight/neap and the 2010 insight/neap and then any others you can fit in (i think stav and lisachem are good also)

[kensan]

I've done around 10, I keep finding some really minor details of certain concepts that we didn't cover at school, so I find doing lots of practice ones are really useful for me.

[duquesne9995]

Ligands, I find that some of the Insight questions are a bit weird/dodgy; don't really like them. LisaChem can be good to test your knowledge and find out where the gaps in knowledge are.