Thoughts on neap?

[Peanut Butter]

I just did the 2014 neap practise exam. I got a lot of the questions wrong (it's been my worst exam so far!)

What are your thoughts on neap? Are the questions genuinely similar to the VCAA exam and should I add them to my bound reference??

[_fruitcake_]

I just did the 2014 neap practise exam. I got a lot of the questions wrong (it's been my worst exam so far!)

What are your thoughts on neap? Are the questions genuinely similar to the VCAA exam and should I add them to my bound reference??

its actually horrible, i get like 35/40 on them, and on the worst further vcaa exam so far this holidays i got 39/40... its definitely not up to vcaa standards

[Peanut Butter]

its actually horrible, i get like 35/40 on them, and on the worst further vcaa exam so far this holidays i got 39/40... its definitely not up to vcaa standards

I'm so glad to hear that!!

Hope your studies are going well Fruitcake!

[_fruitcake_]

I'm so glad to hear that!!

Hope your studies are going well Fruitcake!

Yeah man u too, what study score u aiming for further?

[Peanut Butter]

Yeah man u too, what study score u aiming for further?

Hoping for 45+ you?

[IntelxD]

Don't worry too much about Neap, their exams do tend to be on the more difficult side. You're better off focusing on MAV, Heffernan and Insight. Especially since students tend to lose marks for being careless rather than being unable to answer a question in VCAA exams (this is generally true at the top end).

Also, I don't think I even attempted a single Neap exam back when I was doing Further. I remember looking through them and thinking that some of the questions were just irrelevant.

[Splash-Tackle-Flail]

Don't worry too much about Neap, their exams do tend to be on the more difficult side. You're better off focusing on MAV, Heffernan and Insight. Especially since students tend to lose marks for being careless rather than being unable to answer a question in VCAA exams (this is generally true at the top end).

Also, I don't think I even attempted a single Neap exam back when I was doing Further. I remember looking through them and thinking that some of the questions were just irrelevant.

Basically this^

I did do Neap as it was prescribed at my school, and honestly their questions are of a much higher standard than VCAA (I think I averaged about 33ish/40 for Neap exam ones, and 48ish/60 for exam twos). Most of what they ask won't even be on the actual exam, so I definitely echo intel's thoughts in this sense.

Perhaps if you are going to do them- do them untimed, and it honestly depends on how you use your bound reference book, but personally I didn't bother with writing out Neap mistakes (probably because there was so many haha)..

[_fruitcake_]

Hoping for 45+ you?

Same.. i only need a 35 but i think i got that alone without doing any exam prep

[Peanut Butter]

Same.. i only need a 35 but i think i got that alone without doing any exam prep

I'm sure you'll do great

How many practise exams have you done and how many are you thinking of doing?