School Sacs

[Sanguinne]

In my school, the teachers take some questions from past vcaa exams and put them in the school sacs. The majority of the time its the extended response and I find it slightly annoying.

My question is do other schools have questions in the sacs from vcaa exams?

[pi]

I think one of my spesh SACs had questions from old VCAA exams (like in the 90's) alongside other questions

[b^3]

This didn't happen for methods, but it did happen for another subject, which I won't name here. Our first sac was ripped straight from VCAA exams from the previous two years (I'd actually gone over them the night before, so was fairly surprised when it came up). Then when we got the sacs back, a few of us had the same question wrong, so we went to the examiners report to check out why, turns out we were right and had the same working and result as the report. We went and showed the teacher, and even showed them the examiner's report, they stood to their (incorrect) working and we didn't get any marks for that question, even though we had exactly what VCAA would have wanted if it were an exam....

Tbh, if I were in the same situation you were in then it'd be slightly annoying. It would probably help if you can expose yourself to more sac-type questions outside of class, to help prepare for exams rather than knowing the questions on the sacs beforehand.

[Sanguinne]

thanks for the tips

[Zealous]

I've had a fair few SACS with exam questions scattered around the place, although no one actually "recognises" them, as not many of us are into practice exams yet.

I think it's good to have a few past questions, it helps us know that the exams aren't impossible, the some of the stuff on SAC's is at an exam level, so good preparation I think.