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Re: Best Practice Exams?
« Reply #15 on: September 14, 2010, 10:29:03 pm »
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From memory:

Insight and TSSM are straight-forward and quite easy.

Neap and itute are hard, though still very relevant.

TSFX is just ...

And VCAA is alongside TSSM and insight.
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Re: Best Practice Exams?
« Reply #16 on: September 14, 2010, 10:45:42 pm »
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Quote from: TyErd on September 14, 2010, 05:46:34 pm
Martoman how may exams did you do to get your 50?

Quite a few I had lots of spare time doing year 10 and all :S I got through 19 exam 1's and 23 exam 2's exactly. (Grizzly) Bear in mind average times on exam 1 was 15-20 mins and 45-1hour on exam 2's. Thats how I got so many done.
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Re: Best Practice Exams?
« Reply #17 on: September 14, 2010, 11:18:51 pm »
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you must be really fast, i've done 4 exam 1's so far and they each take me 45 minutes.
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Re: Best Practice Exams?
« Reply #18 on: September 15, 2010, 09:26:47 am »
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where can i find these i-tute exams
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Re: Best Practice Exams?
« Reply #19 on: September 15, 2010, 11:38:16 am »
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i just did the tsfx exam 1 2006, I found all the exam relevant to the course, I ended up gettin 37, but it took me the full hour, which is unusual, but i recommend you do it cuz it is completely relevant just a bit harder than other exam 1's
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« Reply #20 on: September 15, 2010, 12:17:15 pm »
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i don't understand how it's possible to finish exam 1 in less then 20minutes.. thats ridiculous haha. how do you guys even do that??

i think i may give up on methods, the most i can probably get is 42 with heaps of work, but i can get a further equivalent of ~47 with less work and more time to focus on my weakness. so i dont think methods is going to help me too much even if i do well as englang is wayyy more important.
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Re: Best Practice Exams?
« Reply #21 on: September 15, 2010, 06:27:43 pm »
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Quote from: Jdog on September 15, 2010, 09:26:47 am
where can i find these i-tute exams

www.itute.com

they are free, so are their notes.
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« Reply #22 on: September 15, 2010, 06:28:41 pm »
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Re: Best Practice Exams?
« Reply #23 on: September 16, 2010, 05:50:38 pm »
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Even though the whole state is doing CAS now, it's still useful to do the normal ones right?
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Re: Best Practice Exams?
« Reply #24 on: September 16, 2010, 06:00:46 pm »
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Is there even that much of a difference apart from matrices chapter? and possibly more complicated questions requiring algorithms in the CAS calculators
I would say that normal ones are definitely useful
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Re: Best Practice Exams?
« Reply #25 on: September 16, 2010, 06:14:16 pm »
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Personally, for methods, I think MAV and Heffernan were best

Edit: Apart from VCAA of course
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Re: Best Practice Exams?
« Reply #26 on: September 16, 2010, 07:45:30 pm »
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Quote from: vexx on September 15, 2010, 12:17:15 pm
i don't understand how it's possible to finish exam 1 in less then 20minutes.. thats ridiculous haha. how do you guys even do that??

i think i may give up on methods, the most i can probably get is 42 with heaps of work, but i can get a further equivalent of ~47 with less work and more time to focus on my weakness. so i dont think methods is going to help me too much even if i do well as englang is wayyy more important.

Right I didn't mean to scare anyone. Remember, the exam 1 is an hour long. Its made that long because that is how long it should take.
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