When are you going to stop studying/ Start prac exams? [Poll too]

[Yitzi_K]

I've started doing exams for all my subjects now. Methods I started the beginning of term 3, spesh about a month ago.

[m@tty]

Really.. i never really thought of doing the two together and i've never really heard anyone mention that strategy before now... i thought it would be kind of a bad idea to do exams if you haven't got all the theory down yet and you wouldn't be able to do that exam either (well maybe you would if you forgot all the questions and answers)

So i should start doing both together?

If you can, start with insight. Their detailed solutions are perfect for solidifying your theory. But once you are confident with most areas sifting through the solutions becomes laborious.

[Greggler]

yeah as shinny said, you should be doing practice exams and using your mistakes/interesting/obscure questions from exams to enhance your notes. I have a little book for each subject containing such questions and answers.

I'm not really one to write and re-write copious amounts of notes. Essentially for my revision/summarizing i just on the odd occasion sit down with the study design in front of me and just try to address every point and whilst doing so try to make as many links with my book containing past exam questions which i've got wrong

[studying_hard]

probably not long before exams unfortunatly. only have a couple for each subject. damn

[iffets12345]

English and Lit mean you're always studying them no matter what, then writing up essays on what you know.
But for maths and chem, I don't see what's wrong with doing the practise exams, i mean generally when studying those two, you're basically doing questions anyways so it made no real difference to me. Except maybe chem, when you're reading up on all the industrial stuff.

[The Detective]

Completed my first one for both my 3/4 subjects today. Not too bad but expecting improvements

[littlebecc]

we have prac exams all next week at school argh. haven't started yet, i want some holidays

[andy456]

We have prac exams all this week (school holidays my ass)

So this will be the starting point for my practise exams

[pirocan1]

how many practise papers a day do u recommend?

[taiga]

how many practise papers a day do u recommend?

approximately 15

[AzureBlue]

how many practise papers a day do u recommend?

How many subjects do you have? If you have 5, probably 1 each subject each day.

[littlebecc]

approximately 15

2 hours approx to do an exam, 30 hours. Not enough hours in the day buddy. I hope you're being sarcastic

[taiga]

approximately 15

2 hours approx to do an exam, 30 hours. Not enough hours in the day buddy. I hope you're being sarcastic

Yeah pretty much.

The day before the VCAA physics midyear exam I did 11 exams and didnt know 40% of the course the day before, it worked out

[vexx]

^ I'm sure 15 is possible if you are good with the subject.
I can complete chem and further exams in an hour, and psych i did them in 45min.
So if i worked from 7am-11pm I could squeeze in 15 exams of these with breaks, but that's so inefficient i wouldn't even want to do that :p

I'd say 3-4 exams a day is good, given you aren't doing any notes.
So a pe ~2hr, further ~2hr for both exams, chem exam ~1hr & englang exam ~2hr = 7hours which is possible (not sure how long englang/pe will take though as i haven't started these subjects for exams yet..)

[98.40_for_sure]

According to derrick ha, you have to correct it as soon as you finish it. Note down your mistakes and write into your error book. Thus you need double the amount of time per exam.