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Sine

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Re: Biology Practice Exam Discussion
« Reply #75 on: October 03, 2015, 11:46:12 pm »
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If you want to have a go at one of the harder VCAA papers do Unit 4 2003 it's probably comparable to Unit 3 2006 (A+ cut-off 54/75) my estimated A+ cut-off for Unit 4 2003 probably around 55-57/75.

Can anyone provide an extremely rule for how many marks you need to be above the A+ cut-off to get a 45?
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Re: Biology Practice Exam Discussion
« Reply #76 on: October 04, 2015, 01:07:32 am »
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Quote from: Sine on October 03, 2015, 11:46:12 pm
If you want to have a go at one of the harder VCAA papers do Unit 4 2003 it's probably comparable to Unit 3 2006 (A+ cut-off 54/75) my estimated A+ cut-off for Unit 4 2003 probably around 55-57/75.

Can anyone provide a extremely rule for how many marks you need to be above the A+ cut-off to get a 45?

An 87% on last years exam with good SAC's got you a high 40. I just checked, the A+ cutoff for 2006 was 60.5 (121/150)
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Re: Biology Practice Exam Discussion
« Reply #77 on: October 04, 2015, 01:18:18 pm »
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Quote from: Biology24123 on October 04, 2015, 01:07:32 am
An 87% on last years exam with good SAC's got you a high 40. I just checked, the A+ cutoff for 2006 was 60.5 (121/150)
Really I thought 87% would just scrape a 40 as it only got a very low A+; what do you mean by high 40? Do you have any specific examples?
A+ for Unit 3 was 54/75(108/150)
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Re: Biology Practice Exam Discussion
« Reply #78 on: October 04, 2015, 02:39:29 pm »
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Quote from: Sine on October 04, 2015, 01:18:18 pm
Really I thought 87% would just scrape a 40 as it only got a very low A+; what do you mean by high 40? Do you have any specific examples?
A+ for Unit 3 was 54/75(108/150)

An 87% would be 43+ most years assuming good sac marks
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Re: Biology Practice Exam Discussion
« Reply #79 on: October 04, 2015, 02:53:42 pm »
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Quote from: Biology24123 on October 04, 2015, 02:39:29 pm
An 87% would be 43+ most years assuming good sac marks
yeah most years stuff like 65/75+65/75(around 87%) would be 43+ by experience I think closer to 44-45, but in the last year it definitely wasn't, really weird year last year with extremely high cut-off(possibly because it was a easier exam and fairly marked).

I think exams in the new SD are easier/more fairly marked overall as averages have increased from ~50-53% to ~55-59% as well as A+ cut-offs.
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Re: Biology Practice Exam Discussion
« Reply #80 on: October 04, 2015, 03:13:58 pm »
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Quote from: Sine on October 04, 2015, 02:53:42 pm
yeah most years stuff like 65/75+65/75(around 87%) would be 43+ by experience I think closer to 44-45, but in the last year it definitely wasn't, really weird year last year with extremely high cut-off(possibly because it was a easier exam and fairly marked).

I think exams in the new SD are easier/more fairly marked overall as averages have increased from ~50-53% to ~55-59% as well as A+ cut-offs.

True, the cutoff last year was 87%, must have been extremely easy
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Re: Biology Practice Exam Discussion
« Reply #81 on: October 04, 2015, 04:32:52 pm »
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Has anyone done the 2014 paper?

I am doing it tonight xD
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Re: Biology Practice Exam Discussion
« Reply #82 on: October 04, 2015, 04:36:54 pm »
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Quote from: cosine on October 04, 2015, 04:32:52 pm
Has anyone done the 2014 paper?

I am doing it tonight xD

Too early do it for me
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Re: Biology Practice Exam Discussion
« Reply #83 on: October 04, 2015, 04:46:07 pm »
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Quote from: cosine on October 04, 2015, 04:32:52 pm
Has anyone done the 2014 paper?

I am doing it tonight xD
Nope, I'm going to do it with roughly a week to go.
Let us know how you go, BTW have you done 2013?
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Re: Biology Practice Exam Discussion
« Reply #84 on: October 04, 2015, 05:39:47 pm »
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Quote from: Sine on October 04, 2015, 04:46:07 pm
Nope, I'm going to do it with roughly a week to go.
Let us know how you go, BTW have you done 2013?

Nah I havent done that yet. Maybe Ill do that instead?

Will let you guys know
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Re: Biology Practice Exam Discussion
« Reply #85 on: October 04, 2015, 11:58:10 pm »
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Unit 3 from before 2006 are completely different.
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Re: Biology Practice Exam Discussion
« Reply #86 on: October 06, 2015, 10:54:56 pm »
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How many practice exams has everyone done so far?
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Re: Biology Practice Exam Discussion
« Reply #87 on: October 06, 2015, 11:14:51 pm »
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How many practice exams has everyone done so far?

A lot
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Re: Biology Practice Exam Discussion
« Reply #88 on: October 08, 2015, 04:21:19 pm »
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Quote from: cosine on October 04, 2015, 04:32:52 pm
Has anyone done the 2014 paper?

I am doing it tonight xD
What result did you get?
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Re: Biology Practice Exam Discussion
« Reply #89 on: October 10, 2015, 03:37:54 pm »
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have any of you done 2015 TSSM? Is TSSM, in general  hard or easy?
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