Biology Practice Exams

[lazaward]

Hi everyone,
I've found that my scores on practice exams fluctuate a lot depending on the company/year of the exam. Can anyone else relate? Should I be worried if not all my scores are consistent? Thanks.

[vox nihili]

Hi everyone,
I've found that my scores on practice exams fluctuate a lot depending on the company/year of the exam. Can anyone else relate? Should I be worried if not all my scores are consistent? Thanks.

They should be broadly consistent within the same company. For instance, you wouldn't expect too much fluctuation on VCAA exams (although the shift to a new study design makes this a bit trickier). Differences between how you do on the company exams is largely irrelevant. Their exams are all set at different levels of difficulty and they certainly don't have the resources that VCAA has to write consistently high quality exams that don't see a lot of fluctuation.

For VCAA exams, use the grade distributions to see whether your score really has changed that much or whether it was just a harder exam.