Ideal number of practice exams before an exam?

[kyzoo]

I actually don't understand how you can write an essay and be on the Internet at the same time >.<. It took me 5 hours to write one expository at State with a friend next to me -.-

[vexx]

I actually don't understand how you can write an essay and be on the Internet at the same time >.<. It took me 5 hours to write one expository at State with a friend next to me -.-

write an essay by hand under exam conditionsss. it's what i do for englang, done a few in the last week.
there weren't that good though :p
but for me, i was happy to at least have done some practice, as my main problem is structure.
so maybe do some intense theme book research, and make mindmaps of all different topics/ideas as prompts..

iuno, i dont do either lit/english! but i'm sure its possible...

[iffets12345]

yea its just hard as to write to timed conditions for lit now...SIGH.. major stress for that sub. It's making me distracted from spesh and chem..

[Abdi]

Does anyone have International Studies exams?

and plus I need legal studies too, I've done like 25 already but need more

[Blakhitman]

Does anyone have International Studies exams?

and plus I need legal studies too, I've done like 25 already but need more

25 :O

[m@tty]

Start re-doing questions and whole exams, surely there is enough in 25 exams.

Plus, after 25 there shouldn't be too much more you need to work on...

[Abdi]

I tend to hyperventilate when it comes to exam times and feel that If I don't do atleast 50 exams per subject I will fail! :|

but nermind about it, my teacher gave me more!

[m@tty]

How many of your subjects have you actually done 50 exams for?

That number of exams is, to my mind, ludicrous.

[matt123]

How many of your subjects have you actually done 50 exams for?

That number of exams is, to my mind, ludicrous.

psych last semester I did

and plan on doing same amount .. maybe 50+ for english ( single essays . not 50 exams).

and probz 40ish for chem . 30 for bio

1 for methods.

[Wally]

i think i shall be doing one exam for methods too 

[cypriottiger]

ive done about 30 so far for methods improving greatly now!

[stonecold]

How do people go for exam 2 methods?  Exam 1 is easy and doesn't really need much practice, just can't afford careless errors, whereas with Exam 2, I am always pushed for time, and am yet to be able to finish one under time yet.  Always go a few minutes over...

[iffets12345]

^ what are u getting despite this time issue?

[cypriottiger]

my tutor advises me to do 5 mins reading time followed by 15 mins for m.c. qns. just build yourself up from there so u get max time for short answer

[stonecold]

It is really variable.  Like today I did MAV 2009, and I dropped 3 marks, but other days I have shockers and lose like 10.

It is using the calculator I think... It slows me down so much.

The other thing is that I find some of the questions to be so vague, and I sometimes struggle to work out what it is exactly asking for, but I think this is more of a poor quality questions thing which wouldn't be a worry on VCAA.

What are people doing 1st.  MC or SA ?  Derrick Ha said to do SA first so I have changed, but prior to that for all of my schooling, I have always done MC first in like every test/exam for like bio, chem, physics or maths.