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

[taiga]

You get to a stage with methods/spec where you can finish exam 1 in half the alloted time, and exam 2 a little longer than half that time too (some people go as far as finishing exam 1 in 15-20 mins and exam 2 in 1 hour)

I've also gotten to the stage where I can finish chem exams in about 40 minutes, i dont  bother rechecking, because i want to note down the errors i make on first impression on a question, rather than going back and then fixing it.

Physics I am hopeless at though, need to full 1.5 hours atm, but im sure it gets faster.

I think it's just in the arts/language subjects where you tend to actually need the entire exam time.


ps. that does not take 2x as long

[iffets12345]

i dont  bother rechecking, because i want to note down the errors i make on first impression on a question, rather than going back and then fixing it.

Agreed! Except I do so horribly.

[98.40_for_sure]

I don't recheck either, but might consider doing it from now on. Using dha method! whereby doing the question using an alternate method to ensure the answer is correct

[iffets12345]

oh i do that sometimes but sometimes in spesh i overcomplicate it. zzz.
and sometimes there is no alternate way of doing things in chem?

[kyzoo]

You get to a stage with methods/spec where you can finish exam 1 in half the alloted time, and exam 2 a little longer than half that time too (some people go as far as finishing exam 1 in 15-20 mins and exam 2 in 1 hour)

That never happened for me and it won't happen in the future because I treat practice exams like they're the real thing. I don't do practice exams just for the questions, I also do them to practice exam technique.

[taiga]

You get to a stage with methods/spec where you can finish exam 1 in half the alloted time, and exam 2 a little longer than half that time too (some people go as far as finishing exam 1 in 15-20 mins and exam 2 in 1 hour)

That never happened for me and it won't happen in the future because I treat practice exams like they're the real thing. I don't do practice exams just for the questions, I also do them to practice exam technique.

Yeah I do them for the questions

[vexx]

You get to a stage with methods/spec where you can finish exam 1 in half the alloted time, and exam 2 a little longer than half that time too (some people go as far as finishing exam 1 in 15-20 mins and exam 2 in 1 hour)

That never happened for me and it won't happen in the future because I treat practice exams like they're the real thing. I don't do practice exams just for the questions, I also do them to practice exam technique.

This is what some of us should be doing.. (ie me)
I didn't do this for chem mid year as i knew the content so well that it was like, don't bother?
But i lost so many marks on stupid 'exam technique' questions as i was speeding through chem exams in less then an hour and not taking much note of my silly errors. arghh
so listen to kyzoo, even if it seems boring & annoying..

[iffets12345]

^ There is a secondary point in that if you don't recheck when you're doing practice exams, you get a feel of how many marks you will lose if you only get to do the exam once and have no time to recheck. That is why I don't re-check. By not re-checking everytime I do another paper I try to improve my accuracy the first time round and that includes being able to process exam technique WITHOUT having to re-check.
Then, when you get to the real thing and have time to re-check you can eliminate as many errors as possible.

different people, different tactics imo.

[Yitzi_K]

I only recheck when I'm doing VCAA exams, because I try to make those as realistically exam style as possible, as a true gauge of my likely exam score.

[kyzoo]

You get to a stage with methods/spec where you can finish exam 1 in half the alloted time, and exam 2 a little longer than half that time too (some people go as far as finishing exam 1 in 15-20 mins and exam 2 in 1 hour)

That never happened for me and it won't happen in the future because I treat practice exams like they're the real thing. I don't do practice exams just for the questions, I also do them to practice exam technique.

This is what some of us should be doing.. (ie me)
I didn't do this for chem mid year as i knew the content so well that it was like, don't bother?
But i lost so many marks on stupid 'exam technique' questions as i was speeding through chem exams in less then an hour and not taking much note of my silly errors. arghh
so listen to kyzoo, even if it seems boring & annoying..

Actually exams are more boring and annoying if I don't treat them like the actual thing. If rush through them, I find it very annoying when I actually have to think since I treat the exams as if I am pumping homework questions. And then I end up losing about 10 marks. Whereas if I focus and treat it like a real exam, I find the harder questions entertaining, even though I take longer to do the exam.

[iffets12345]

harder questions totally throw me off if I can't do them lol!

[Greggler]

You get to a stage with methods/spec where you can finish exam 1 in half the alloted time, and exam 2 a little longer than half that time too (some people go as far as finishing exam 1 in 15-20 mins and exam 2 in 1 hour)

That never happened for me and it won't happen in the future because I treat practice exams like they're the real thing. I don't do practice exams just for the questions, I also do them to practice exam technique.

This is what some of us should be doing.. (ie me)
I didn't do this for chem mid year as i knew the content so well that it was like, don't bother?
But i lost so many marks on stupid 'exam technique' questions as i was speeding through chem exams in less then an hour and not taking much note of my silly errors. arghh
so listen to kyzoo, even if it seems boring & annoying..

Actually exams are more boring and annoying if I don't treat them like the actual thing. If rush through them, I find it very annoying when I actually have to think since I treat the exams as if I am pumping homework questions. And then I end up losing about 10 marks. Whereas if I focus and treat it like a real exam, I find the harder questions entertaining, even though I take longer to do the exam.

This...
My first exam or two for each subject is usually just a gauge to see how much i actually know, and i dont usually do it to timed conditions.
But yeah, when you really get in the mindset, when you see a tough question its actually a relief; instead of the hundreds of the same chem and physics questions you come across which are just the same thing reworded with different values.

[matt123]

hmmmm
ummmmm

ive almost finished my prac exam "time"
and now im just mainly focusing on how to just better word my answers.

[taiga]

matt will get 99.15

[matt123]

matt will get 99.15

lol nice sarcasm
i dont even think ill get 90+ anymore.
stupid methods .. fml