Which years of VCAA exams do we do?

[bobisnotmyname]

are the 2002 exams still have the contend that we study in them, or are they a different study design? If so what year should be start at?

[archenemy]

I'm not 100% sure but 2002 might have some similar content on it...Just personal opinion but I feel like 2002 is a bit too far back. 2009 would be as far back as I would go for VCAA exams (even then there are some stuff that were taken out of the study design). My suggestion would be to try find some of the more recent practice exams from the different companies (NEAP, Insight etc etc) and do those in conjunction with the more recent VCAA exams.

[Adequace]

I'm not 100% sure but 2002 might have some similar content on it...Just personal opinion but I feel like 2002 is a bit too far back. 2009 would be as far back as I would go for VCAA exams (even then there are some stuff that were taken out of the study design). My suggestion would be to try find some of the more recent practice exams from the different companies (NEAP, Insight etc etc) and do those in conjunction with the more recent VCAA exams.

Did you have any method of choosing/prioritising when to do a specific exam? Like did you choose to do the VCAA exams closer to the exam or did you just do them whenever?

[archenemy]

I think I did a few of the older exams first to get a feel of the relative levels of difficulty and how the compared to VCAA ones. Then I kind of calculated how many exams I'd be realistically able to do and used that to determine which year to start at with my practice exams.

For example, if I had enough time for 20 exams and I had 5 exams for every year, then I'd start with the exams released 4 years ago. I figured this way I could get the more "relevant" exams done as well as allowing the first few practice exams to serve as a performance (eg. time management, accuracy, knowledge etc) indicator without feeling like I "wasted" the "better" exams.

After that, you should have a pretty good idea of which trial papers are not worth doing and which ones are "better". Alternatively, you can search atarnotes forums and see which companies' exams people are recommending xD. If you still have time left you can just pick out the better exams and attempt them. 

To be honest by this stage of the year I think I had done most of the VCAA papers indirectly via checkpoints (used for SAC preparation).