Ideal number of practice exams before an exam?

[letsride]

i did 0 exams for fm last year, didn't do any textbook q's and rocked up to the exams hungover (thanks halloween night), still averaged 94%~ sacs, high B+ for exam 1 and high B for exam 2, haha. looking back i wish i put in the effort and couldve easily achieved 47+

btw
method - 30-40
spesh - 30
physics - 15-20
psychology - 2?
literature - 15-20 (already done 3)

[bomb]

Haha how are you guys planning to print that many exams? :|

I've got the exams, no idea how/where to print them though.

[Spreadbury]

Haha how are you guys planning to print that many exams? :|

I've got the exams, no idea how/where to print them though.

office works. it's damn expensive (me and a friend decided to print ours together, still cost $150 though) but the paper's good quality and it's quick

[matt123]

Haha how are you guys planning to print that many exams? :|

I've got the exams, no idea how/where to print them though.

office works. it's damn expensive (me and a friend decided to print ours together, still cost $150 though) but the paper's good quality and it's quick

yeh agreed
for mid years
i did 48 bio
like 45 psych
20 chem
and that cost me like 100 bux hahah if not more.

i plan on doing

chem- 30+
psych 50
bio 20
english ( 30-40 prac essays)
methods .. umm .. maybe 1 or 2 ...if icbf


EDIT:
i didnt print my exams at office works tho .. that would cost wayy to much
print them off at the school ... alot cheaper ... and sometimes they do it free since your printing off exams.

[andy456]

its not necessarily the quantity but how you use the exams to help you learn.
you should be trying to pinpoint your weaknessess and amend these as soon as possible.
I think 20 of each should be enough if you use them properly.
My aim is:
24 - chemistry
15 - legal
40 - methods
20 - english + (20 extra text responses)

where did you get 15 legal exams? i'm jealous

My teacher has been teaching legal studies for probably 40 years and has exams back to ~1984, which still has relavent stuff. But they're all hardcopy

40 for methods? woah damn you must be really motivated. is that 40 exams 1's and 40 exam 2's?

yeah I hope to do 40 sets (40 x Exam 1 and 40 x Exam 2)
But its only because methods will be my worst subject and I really wanna try and hit 40.. so I maximise the scaling, and cause I wanna be in the paper

[iffets12345]

what's wrong with printing at home?
I plan to do an 2 exams a day for spesh, one for chemistry  and an essay of lit/ english a day. On the weekends I'll do a full english exam ( I hope!)

I don't want to sound rude, but I think 40 exams for methods is a bit excessive. After about 20-25 you'll be guaranteed to have picked up the tricks in an exam. That is, if you conscientiously look at each exam after you've done it. If you're on some marking craze and just want to grind 40 you won't learn as much as if you just sit down and careful analyse each exam after doing it and marking it. That's just my general belief.

[98.40_for_sure]

What da heo... 150 bux? I print exams off like crazy at home and my dad never replaces the printer ink thingie... so can't be very much ink per paper? My teachers at school give us practice exams as well already printed so it's free

[Visionz]

you guys are insane. how can you even find 45 pysch exams let alone do 45? I probably did about 12 for psych and then peaked in the actual exam.
Do them until you reach the point where you can answer any reasonable question put in front of you and you should be right for the exam. This could be 3 exams it could be 10. 20+ is just excessive. Minimal returns if any from then on, youre better off just giving your brain a rest.  




As for printing just ask someone you know who works in an office to print them for you. their printers cost like 20 grand and theyre done pretty quickly.

[akira88]

My school has free printing :O It's awesome and really fast- it prints double sided too
And public school might I add

[minilunchbox]

I just do them straight off the screen if I don't have a hardcopy. I mean, it's probably not the best way to do them but I feel bad about using all that paper D:

[98.40_for_sure]

I hate being tight on paper and printing 2 pages landscape per side... it's ok for chem, but with maths you can't fit fractions in one line

[matt123]

I just do them straight off the screen if I don't have a hardcopy. I mean, it's probably not the best way to do them but I feel bad about using all that paper D:

im doing that now for psych actually
its the same .. i just get distracted easier

i do multiple choice . then check them
then facebook/v
then back to short answer

infact
thats what im doing now lol . cya gota finish paper

[bomb]

you guys are insane. how can you even find 45 pysch exams let alone do 45? I probably did about 12 for psych and then peaked in the actual exam.
Do them until you reach the point where you can answer any reasonable question put in front of you and you should be right for the exam. This could be 3 exams it could be 10. 20+ is just excessive. Minimal returns if any from then on, youre better off just giving your brain a rest.

I agree with visions, there is a point where you are just wasting your time, you're better off giving yourself a rest, getting some exercise, catching up on sleep and calming the nerves.

I did 2 for psych mid-year

My school has free printing :O It's awesome and really fast- it prints double sided too
And public school might I add

Well, we sure as hell aren't going to the same school. Public + costs 10c a page, $1 if it is colour :O

[Blakhitman]

Off the screen, I printed shit load for unit 3 and I cbf this time lol.

It isn't really different, anyway my plan:

Methods: 20
Further: ~0-5
Physics: 15
Chem: 15
English: ~ (1/2) an essay

nah but seriously I'm gonna do heaps for English cus I want that 35!!!!!

My school has free printing :O It's awesome and really fast- it prints double sided too
And public school might I add

Well, we sure as hell aren't going to the same school. Public + costs 10c a page, $1 if it is colour :O

Same here.

[vexx]

wooow some of you are going to be doing so much.
not sure how you'll manage to have that much time to do hundreds of exams in total...

i think ~15 is a good number of exams to do, any more than that is just a bonus really. or you could reach your limit where each exam (as kyzoo said) doesnt really improve you much anymore..