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Trial exams
« on: August 25, 2008, 09:02:59 pm »
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How many trial exams have you been given? Just curious (finished the course today by the way, anyone else done?)

Official (marked): 3

Unofficial: 29  :o
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Re: Trial exams
« Reply #1 on: August 25, 2008, 09:12:42 pm »
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Wow... You have already finished the course! We haven't even gone through Mechanics or Vector Calculus yet! I feel like I am going to fail the exams in an outrageous fashion.

To answer your question, I haven't gone through any trial exams, I guess all I do is go through the Checkpoints (half of which I don't understand... Maybe more?). That should get me my 20. :P

Well, good on you for finishing the course in such record time! ;D
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Re: Trial exams
« Reply #2 on: August 25, 2008, 09:19:15 pm »
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lol. I finished the course in Mid-April.

I'm just touching up with Mechanics (statics), I should really do a timed exam (i do exams, but to test my knowledge, not timed or anything).
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Re: Trial exams
« Reply #3 on: August 25, 2008, 09:20:05 pm »
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Haven't formally finished the course at school yet (that'll take until the end of the first week of term 4 supposedly) but I've already finished the course at tutor, and I'm basically using my school's exam pack to learn the course rather than doing exercises now. Reason for that is we've been given 41 spesh exams (82 if you count exam 1+2) soooooo that'll last me a while. Oh, and another 39 (78 for the same reason) if you count methods, but I doubt I'll be doing many of them.
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Re: Trial exams
« Reply #4 on: August 25, 2008, 09:30:51 pm »
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Yeah? I finished the course with my tutor a couple of weeks back as well, but my school's done pretty well too. As a side note, what areas are you having the most trouble with?

Myself, well not any really, but the one I forsee the most danger is complex numbers and possibly kinematics (double pulleys for the lose).
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Re: Trial exams
« Reply #5 on: August 25, 2008, 09:57:16 pm »
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We were given about 70 past exams last year, probably did around 6 at school.
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Re: Trial exams
« Reply #6 on: August 25, 2008, 10:00:40 pm »
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Quote from: mark_alec on August 25, 2008, 09:57:16 pm
We were given about 70 past exams last year, probably did around 6 at school.

OMFG 70 PAST EXAMS WTF


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Where does your school get all these exams?
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Re: Trial exams
« Reply #7 on: August 25, 2008, 10:02:33 pm »
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It's not actually that hard considering how long spesh has been running for without the course considerably changing. I mean, every year theres like 8 companies which release papers at least, so it really doesnt take that long for a school to stockpile them.
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Re: Trial exams
« Reply #8 on: August 25, 2008, 10:36:10 pm »
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We've got cupboards full of them, I think dating back to before VCAA was formed.
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Re: Trial exams
« Reply #9 on: August 25, 2008, 10:43:36 pm »
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anybody upload some exams?
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Re: Trial exams
« Reply #10 on: August 25, 2008, 10:56:07 pm »
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Quote from: DivideBy0 on August 25, 2008, 10:00:40 pm
Where does your school get all these exams?
Two exams per year, from about five or six companies, from the past six years.
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Re: Trial exams
« Reply #11 on: August 28, 2008, 06:27:13 pm »
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does everyone finish the course this early?
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Re: Trial exams
« Reply #12 on: August 28, 2008, 06:42:24 pm »
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Finished the course at the start of the week with school.
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Re: Trial exams
« Reply #13 on: August 28, 2008, 10:24:26 pm »
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I dont see the point of doing 70 papers.
You are better of doing like 40 (20 each or something) and going over it critically to find out all your errors and plan for the exam.
Besides u wud be neglecting your other subs if you do that many.

Thats just my view.
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Re: Trial exams
« Reply #14 on: August 28, 2008, 11:15:22 pm »
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My trial exam count for Specialist Maths definitely did not exceed say... 10 (I'm thinking more like 4-5, but I'll be safe here). I wouldn't recommend this because now you have much better resources. In my year it was the first year of the new format, so I didn't really see the point of practicing with the old style exams much.

There are diminishing marginal returns when doing more and more exam papers.
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