Best Bio Practice Exams?

[Ethereal Lights]

Hi,

I was just wondering which companies people thought had the best practice exams for bio in terms of the question types and difficulties being the most similar to what would be found on a VCAA exam? The exams we have from school are Lisachem, TSSM, Insight and NEAP.

Also how many exams would people recommend trying to do before the exam? (So far I have done 5 combined and 7 separate).

Thanks

[LifeisaConstantStruggle]

Good afternoon,
The best exams (in terms of difficulty) would be from NEAP and Lisachem, though they would be fairly inaccurate if you want to predict how you'd go in the exam with these as they are really difficult, and might go out of the scope of what you actually need to know. Insight (easiest) and TSSM are pretty good as well, as their difficulty resemble VCAA exams more than NEAP and Lisachem imo (TSSM MCQ's are actually really hard). QATs make okay exams as well, you might wanna check those out.

[plsbegentle]

stav are usually harder than VCAA in my opinion and the ones you've listed are all good.
 
If you're in year 11, 20 is a minimum, when i did bio last yr, i did around 30-40, mainly VCAA. However, if you're in year 12, this really depends where you are at, i would say at least 5, but simply do enough to feel confident. So its kinda your decision when it's time to stop and focus on another subject.

[vox nihili]

Definitely focus on VCAA as a priority. To be perfectly honest, most external practice exams really miss the mark, so I would only recommend doing them once you’ve finished with VCAA.

[Sine]

hmm earlier in the year I would've recommended company exams to revise as you learnt (i.e. choosing questions from certain topics) but the exam is in less than 2 weeks so I'd think just to continually do VCAA exams (redo them if you have to) and revising the theory of the topics you aren't 100% on.

[rainbowsparkles15]

Hi,

I was just wondering which companies people thought had the best practice exams for bio in terms of the question types and difficulties being the most similar to what would be found on a VCAA exam? The exams we have from school are Lisachem, TSSM, Insight and NEAP.

Also how many exams would people recommend trying to do before the exam? (So far I have done 5 combined and 7 separate).

Thanks

Definitely get through all the VCAA exams before looking elsewhere. NEAP pushes the curriculum boundaries way too far and most companies haven't followed the new study design very well.