When should we begin practice exams?

[kenhung123]

If you full on spam exams the entire day (extremely tiring) you can do up to 8

[moekamo]

If you full on spam exams the entire day (extremely tiring) you can do up to 8

depends what exams you do, if they're english exams then thats impossible if you include reading time

[GerrySly]

I always hear of people on VN saying they've done "30 practise exams" and I'm literally :O How on earth do you GET that many practise exams?! My school only provides the VCAA ones (lol so stupid as we can already get them ourselves from the website), and my only other option is to buy them (what a rip off, around $30 for a package). But that still doesn't add up to 30 exams...

Last year I managed to get 94 Method exams (47 sets) and 56 Spesh exams (28 sets) ranging from 1997 to 2009.

Is it advisable to start prior to finishing the course i.e. do what you've learnt so far? Also, is it advisable to redo exams?

yea if u cant find any other exams, no harm in it.

Hmm well actually what I am wondering is whether it is beneficial to redo and kinda like master particular questions in a set of exams rather than spamming lots of new exams.

I think it would be better to do an exam, then keep track of the errors and master the questions after you've done the exam. Don't do an exam, then keep redoing it till you get 100%. Do it, record errors and ways to combat those errors then move on. That way by the end you've seen tons of questions and you can then combat similar unknown questions with a tactic instead of just 1 question you have done 10 times.

[akira88]

I always hear of people on VN saying they've done "30 practise exams" and I'm literally :O How on earth do you GET that many practise exams?! My school only provides the VCAA ones (lol so stupid as we can already get them ourselves from the website), and my only other option is to buy them (what a rip off, around $30 for a package). But that still doesn't add up to 30 exams...

You get them from this forum By about a month before exam time there's usually around 20 or more practise exams for each subject from the past few years. That's how I got all of mine last year.

Lol I'm such a noob though, the only way I find them is when I accidentally come across one in a thread- just the other day I thought OMG practise unit 3 exams for biology! So i downloaded them, did one and wondered why it was easy- oh- it was actually for unit 1 biology Is there a thread for practise exams?

[qshyrn]

ive tried doing a few methods papers last week and its not looking good..  too many mistakes . its definitely better to wait a while till youve gotten enough practice.

[the.watchman]

ive tried doing a few methods papers last week and its not looking good..  too many mistakes . its definitely better to wait a while till youve gotten enough practice.

Yeah, it depends on how much practice you've had, but there is no harm doing them early.
In the end it's your own decision, but it should boil down to whether you can cope with textbook questions easily and with little error (except careless )

[tram]

I always hear of people on VN saying they've done "30 practise exams" and I'm literally :O How on earth do you GET that many practise exams?! My school only provides the VCAA ones (lol so stupid as we can already get them ourselves from the website), and my only other option is to buy them (what a rip off, around $30 for a package). But that still doesn't add up to 30 exams...

You get them from this forum By about a month before exam time there's usually around 20 or more practise exams for each subject from the past few years. That's how I got all of mine last year.

Lol I'm such a noob though, the only way I find them is when I accidentally come across one in a thread- just the other day I thought OMG practise unit 3 exams for biology! So i downloaded them, did one and wondered why it was easy- oh- it was actually for unit 1 biology Is there a thread for practise exams?

is there?? i would very much like some chem ones myself

[vexx]

I always hear of people on VN saying they've done "30 practise exams" and I'm literally :O How on earth do you GET that many practise exams?! My school only provides the VCAA ones (lol so stupid as we can already get them ourselves from the website), and my only other option is to buy them (what a rip off, around $30 for a package). But that still doesn't add up to 30 exams...

You get them from this forum By about a month before exam time there's usually around 20 or more practise exams for each subject from the past few years. That's how I got all of mine last year.

Lol I'm such a noob though, the only way I find them is when I accidentally come across one in a thread- just the other day I thought OMG practise unit 3 exams for biology! So i downloaded them, did one and wondered why it was easy- oh- it was actually for unit 1 biology Is there a thread for practise exams?

is there?? i would very much like some chem ones myself

i don't know if this has been posted here already but http://www.mediafire.com/cleoxo has quite a few

[akira88]

Thanks I think I bookmarked it before but I'm just hoping more practise exams surface soon!

[iffets12345]

The only problem I have with doing the Chemistry and Specialist stuff now is, I HAVEN'T LEARNT ALL THE BLOODY COURSE!
Obviously those who are starting now are ahead/smart/dedicated, but I mean, for chemistry, I can't start in the holidays since I haven't done any organic chem and have only just touched on mass spec.... so how am I supposed to do them?

[m@tty]

Learn the stuff first? Just read your book + wikipedia + ask questions here. Then you can move into a position from which you are able to start exams if you wish.

[iffets12345]

m@tty... lol.... because I am genius enough to learn the differentation stuff in spesh by myself .

[m@tty]

m@tty... lol.... because I am genius enough to learn the differentation stuff in spesh by myself .

Okay, then don't. Not like you're any good at maths anyway. If you can't do that you're screwed next year in uni..... or is it this year?....

Nah, seriously, you could do it. If you think you can't, then just wait....

[kyzoo]

The only problem I have with doing the Chemistry and Specialist stuff now is, I HAVEN'T LEARNT ALL THE BLOODY COURSE!
Obviously those who are starting now are ahead/smart/dedicated, but I mean, for chemistry, I can't start in the holidays since I haven't done any organic chem and have only just touched on mass spec.... so how am I supposed to do them?

Hahaha same, I've spent too much time on English this term and not enough on other subjects =/.

[kyzoo]

So far two and a half since I had English SAC till 6