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VCE Biology Question Thread
lm21074:
--- Quote from: evassmith on May 04, 2022, 05:34:17 pm ---how do you do well?
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Hi Eva and welcome to ATAR Notes!
Plenty of guides on how to do well in bio here.
My three top tips for VCE bio (which might overlap with some of the guides) would be:
1. Understand the content. Clarify any points of confusion online or with a teacher. Make sure you really get the concepts because that's pretty much the first step in applying them to questions in exams.
2. Test yourself. This could be as simple as using flashcards, past SACs, or exam questions like those featured in checkpoints books.
3. Keywords. Yes, you can know the content inside and out but if you don't include some keywords in your answers, you might not get the marks. My teachers like the inclusion of 'specific' (e.g. specific antibody, enzyme, etc.). Have a look at past SAC and VCAA mark schemes and ask your teacher about these.
Good luck :)
Amadas_:
Hi!
I would like some advice. On my first bio sac I got 62%. I am not quite happy with it :(
If I got 85% on my next 4 sacs and got the same for the exam, what study score can I expect to get?
I know that this year 50% of the sac marks contribute to the overall study score.
lm21074:
Hey,
It's really hard to say what SAC marks you need to get particular study scores. Your raw marks get moderated up or down and your raw SAC marks don't really end up being the marks that show up on your statement of results. Depends on factors like your cohorts' performance, SAC difficulty and exam difficulty.
For example, I got in the 60s for most of my bio SACs and they ended up scaling up to A and A+. My school had super hard bio SACs (at least IMO) and so they moderated up. This might be similar or different to what occurs with your cohort. I think I ended up with a B+ on the exam and got a 35. Not sure what percentages a B+ on the exam correlate to but I remember an 80 being an A+ on the exam most years - you'd have to double check the grade distributions to be sure. If you get 85 in the exam and your GA1 and GA2 (U3 and U4 SAC marks) are also 85, you should have a good shot at getting above 40.
I know it's not nice to have that uncertainty of not knowing what score you could expect. We have a section on the forum called Victorian Technical Discussion that has some guides on how you could predict your study score.
Good luck, keeping pushing through :)
Amadas_:
Hey :)
Would I be able to know what are the inputs and outputs that I have to know for glycolysis, Kreb cycle, and electron transport chain?
I use the edrolo textbook and the textbook has different ones from the edrolo videos, I'm not sure which one to go by?
Thankss!
valjaybj :
hey does anyone know where i can find answers to the short answer section of the 2022 sample exam? thanks :)
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