Practice Exams

[j23]

Was just wondering if anyone has started doing practice exams or when they started doing them and what is a standard number to do before the final exams!

Thanks

[emilyhobbes]

Well, I started in these holidays, and my teacher said 30 is a good number to aim for

[Jeggz]

I've started doing them, but since I haven't exactly finished the entire course, I'm just picking out a few questions here and there, just to see how I cope with exam-style questions

[Lasercookie]

Anything really is fine, whether that be 1, 4, 8, 15 or even higher than that. Don't worry about the number, it really is a quality over quantity thing. I would argue that VCAA past exams are all essential to do, however. Use practice exams to learn as much as possible from them (sit most of them in exam conditions, look carefully at all the mistakes you made, go back and read up on topics you struggled with etc.), rather than trying to smash out as many as you possibly can. If you learn what you can thoroughly from the exams that you complete, then there really isn't a need to be doing /all/ the practice exams.

I think around now I was just looking at exam questions here and there and started doing practice exams around August/September (only a couple a week at first, then really got into that exam revision period once September holidays came around). Something like that anyway.

[b^3]

Anything really is fine, whether that be 1, 4, 8, 15 or even higher than that. Don't worry about the number, it really is a quality over quantity thing. I would argue that VCAA past exams are all essential to do, however. Use practice exams to learn as much as possible from them (sit most of them in exam conditions, look carefully at all the mistakes you made, go back and read up on topics you struggled with etc.), rather than trying to smash out as many as you possibly can. If you learn what you can thoroughly from the exams that you complete, then there really isn't a need to be doing /all/ the practice exams.

I think around now I was just looking at exam questions here and there and started doing practice exams around August/September (only a couple a week at first, then really got into that exam revision period once September holidays came around). Something like that anyway.

This exactly. It's not how many you do, it's what you take and learn from them. Some people do 40+ exams and learn nothing from them, in the end they don't do as well as they could have if they had been smart about it.

During year 12 when I was going through practice exams (again, as said above, do it under exam conditions), I made a log book of the questions I got wrong, and exactly why I got them wrong, and then as lazyred has said go back over the concepts for that.

[Hancock]

I reckon that starting in the middle of Term 3 is a good choice. I don't believe that schools have finished the total curriculum yet, so doing practise exams isn't the greatest idea in my opinion. I didn't start until late Term 3 but I believe that I should've started a little earlier.

[ahat]

Our school still has 4 chapters to go! D:

[Hancock]

Don't worry, you've still got heaps of time to finish it off. Realistically, you are where you should be (coming from a public school student).