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How many practice exams?
« on: October 24, 2015, 10:16:26 am »
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For those who scored 45+ in previous years, how many practice exams have you done?
I've done like 13 so far, should I go full ham and do 3 exams a day leading up to the exam? Or should i just instead do the vcaa once over again and be perfectly fine with those?
I've averaged 95+/100 on my exams (just as reference of my abilities)
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Re: How many practice exams?
« Reply #1 on: October 24, 2015, 09:31:15 pm »
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Key is feeling comfortable and be careful on the day.
With you scores, i am sure that you know all your content and it is just a matter of making careless mistakes or not. So keep a cool head and maybe do 1-2 exams a day leading up to the exam, excessive doing/spamming will not benefit, try form a good habit of checking your answers instead of just doing them.

PS. i had a friend who had done 120 papers and scored a 43 in FM, and another friend did 20 exams and got 48 in FM. So for further it is quite tricky in terms of the 'coefficient of determination' on number of exams vs study score ;)

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Re: How many practice exams?
« Reply #2 on: October 25, 2015, 04:27:02 pm »
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PS. i had a friend who had done 120 papers and scored a 43 in FM, and another friend did 20 exams and got 48 in FM. So for further it is quite tricky in terms of the 'coefficient of determination' on number of exams vs study score ;)


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thx for help advice :) tbh most of my mistakes are coming from networks... No idea why I chose this topic but its too late to change eh... its not so much my understanding of networks but just the sheer amount of possibilities and trial and error...
btw when you say 1-2 exams a day, do you mean 1-2 sets or 1-2 individual exams (i.e 1 exam 1 and 1 exam 2)?
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Re: How many practice exams?
« Reply #3 on: October 25, 2015, 04:33:20 pm »
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hmm I think I did about 10 sets for further last year if that's anything to go by- what's most important imo is looking over the mistakes you make, so you don't make them again (e.g. make a mistakes book or common errors table to stick in your reference book)
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Re: How many practice exams?
« Reply #4 on: October 25, 2015, 07:15:08 pm »
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For those who scored 45+ in previous years, how many practice exams have you done?
I've done like 13 so far, should I go full ham and do 3 exams a day leading up to the exam? Or should i just instead do the vcaa once over again and be perfectly fine with those?
I've averaged 95+/100 on my exams (just as reference of my abilities)
Thanks :)
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I've been doing 2 exams a day for the past week and a half. I find that a comfortable amount to do. Now I'm going to do 1 a day leading up to the exam. :D

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Re: How many practice exams?
« Reply #5 on: October 25, 2015, 09:34:03 pm »
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To add a bit of another perspective, I did 11 sets and got a 50.  It's all about using the exams you  do do to fix up your mistakes.
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Re: How many practice exams?
« Reply #6 on: October 25, 2015, 10:36:34 pm »
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To add a bit of another perspective, I did 11 sets and got a 50.  It's all about using the exams you  do do to fix up your mistakes.
aha yeah i've done like 15 sets so far, gotta finish off the vcaa (will finish about 18 by the end), but I just find doing further exams so unbearable, at least with methods exams the challenges keep you entertained, whereas further is just so mind numbing and boring :3
thx for all the responses guys, added another layer of comfort for this friday :3
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