VCE Year 12 Class of 2015

[tashhhaaa]

In other subjects we get the same SAC but sit it at different times because that's when we have class. It's kinda dodge because we could easily just ask our friends to tell us what was on the SAC (not that most people'd be willing to share) but I think the teachers just trust us not to and yeah.

pfft at my school we can see the some of the SACs briefly the day before and in a couple we've been able to bring a notes page and some people still do poorly

(but some subjects are dodgy whereas others are not)

for scaling, we are well and truly fked

[Redoxify]

I am legit so mentally drained, yet exams are right around the corner

lyk dis if u cri evrytim u find out u hv a sac in a couple days

[tashhhaaa]

I am legit so mentally drained, yet exams are right around the corner

lyk dis if u cri evrytim u find out u hv a sac in a couple days

I've had a sac every day this week and I've got another one tomorrow

kms

[warya]

Have people started studying for exams? I want to but like I feel weird not studying for the 3009405 sac's I have left

  

[dankfrank420]

Have people started studying for exams? I want to but like I feel weird not studying for the 3009405 sac's I have left

  

Nope. People at school are doing stuff now, but I prefer to focus on getting decent SAC scores. Besides, revising for SACs IS exam revision - just focused on a particular topic.

How do you have so many SACs? I've only got 5 left for the year (one for each subject).

[odeaa]

Have people started studying for exams? I want to but like I feel weird not studying for the 3009405 sac's I have left

  

Only for methods, but will start physics Monday
I wouldn't start until you have done all your sacs though (unless there is a huge break til the next sac)

[warya]

I have like 8! I think I'll start doing prac exams during study periods and lunch and study for sacs at home

[paper-back]

Has anyone finished all their coursework for a subject?

[wunderkind52]

Haha consistency :')

As an added safety measure at our school when it comes to "collaboration", if you have a SAC for Maths subject and you're absent on the day regardless if it's a legitimate issue or not then you'll have to sit an oral examination to explain your answers and all to a Maths teacher in case you "cheated." Likewise in English each class gets different prompts to ensure fairness (however I cannot tell if for English if it's fair or not as some topics are better than others)...

That sounds like a good idea, but surely if you have written your "working out" then there isn't much you can explain beyond that? Unfortunately due to logistics, many SACs at my school are run during different periods and days. You'd think that people wouldn't discuss the answers and questions, but it still happens regardless. Sometimes I feel like the SACs aren't invigilated thoroughly enough. There have been numerous instances in classes where students continue to write, even after the "pens down" call.

English SACs are all held simultaneously usually in the hall. For our English SACs (Reading and Responding) we are given a list of practice SAC questions, and 1 week before the SAC we are given a list of the real SAC questions which they will pick out of a hat the day before the SAC (around 6 questions). Teachers aren't allowed to provide feedback or look at any work to do with the real questions. This is supposed to reward the people who "study". On the other hand of course, it's not a real indication of exam conditions. Only problem is, they'll use 2 questions for the SAC, reschedule and redemptions. So basically, if you miss the SAC, you automatically have 2 less questions to study for. Personally, I think if we persisted with this system, a better idea would be to add 2 questions, so there would be 6 possible questions at any one time. Oh well!

[appleandbee]

That sounds like a good idea, but surely if you have written your "working out" then there isn't much you can explain beyond that? Unfortunately due to logistics, many SACs at my school are run during different periods and days. You'd think that people wouldn't discuss the answers and questions, but it still happens regardless. Sometimes I feel like the SACs aren't invigilated thoroughly enough. There have been numerous instances in classes where students continue to write, even after the "pens down" call.

English SACs are all held simultaneously usually in the hall. For our English SACs (Reading and Responding) we are given a list of practice SAC questions, and 1 week before the SAC we are given a list of the real SAC questions which they will pick out of a hat the day before the SAC (around 6 questions). Teachers aren't allowed to provide feedback or look at any work to do with the real questions. This is supposed to reward the people who "study". On the other hand of course, it's not a real indication of exam conditions. Only problem is, they'll use 2 questions for the SAC, reschedule and redemptions. So basically, if you miss the SAC, you automatically have 2 less questions to study for. Personally, I think if we persisted with this system, a better idea would be to add 2 questions, so there would be 6 possible questions at any one time. Oh well!

That's nice haha. Especially for context, my school purposely makes the prompts as unrelated to the practice prompts as possible to discourage us from memorizing responses.

[strawberries]

Has anyone finished all their coursework for a subject?

Lol no. My school is like so behind compared to other schools.

[warya]

Has anyone finished all their coursework for a subject?

Yep, methods, and almost finished chem

[IndefatigableLover]

That sounds like a good idea, but surely if you have written your "working out" then there isn't much you can explain beyond that? Unfortunately due to logistics, many SACs at my school are run during different periods and days. You'd think that people wouldn't discuss the answers and questions, but it still happens regardless. Sometimes I feel like the SACs aren't invigilated thoroughly enough. There have been numerous instances in classes where students continue to write, even after the "pens down" call.

English SACs are all held simultaneously usually in the hall. For our English SACs (Reading and Responding) we are given a list of practice SAC questions, and 1 week before the SAC we are given a list of the real SAC questions which they will pick out of a hat the day before the SAC (around 6 questions). Teachers aren't allowed to provide feedback or look at any work to do with the real questions. This is supposed to reward the people who "study". On the other hand of course, it's not a real indication of exam conditions. Only problem is, they'll use 2 questions for the SAC, reschedule and redemptions. So basically, if you miss the SAC, you automatically have 2 less questions to study for. Personally, I think if we persisted with this system, a better idea would be to add 2 questions, so there would be 6 possible questions at any one time. Oh well!

That's definitely true, however if somehow one were to "guess" the right answer or if their mistakes happened to correlate with others (through cross-marking and whatnot). I haven't heard of anybody being penalised as a result of failing the oral examination but we'll see how it pans out over time. Most of the time, we run SACs as a whole year level which generally works out half the time (small school woo) but the ones which we do separately most of the time are English and Maths subjects.

I personally find knowing the SAC topics beforehand to be quite detrimental since it doesn't really prepare you well for the actual exam but that's just my opinion :-/

Has anyone finished all their coursework for a subject?

Just Specialist for me which is more or less it's a yes (school went through large chunks of the Year 12 course last year with us). I know Psychology at our school has finished the course or 95% finished so that's pretty quick I reckon (last SAC for them is next Monday)!
Chemistry will be the last subject finished by the school so I might have to finish Unit 4 off myself beforehand whilst cranking Unit 3 practice exams)

[cameotodd]

Has anyone finished all their coursework for a subject?

I personally have finished accounting, and am on the last couple of pages of the last chapter for psych.

[_fruitcake_]

Has anyone finished all their coursework for a subject?

Personally finish all content for all my subjects.. yet last sacs are in 4-5 weeks time.