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Timtasticle:
Any tips?

Collin Li:
Recognise a pattern and focus on them.

For Chemistry, I remembered an acronym "USSR" that stood for:
- Units
- States
- Significant Figures
- Recalculations/Re-read question

These were my common mistakes, and it was a neat little acronym I could use to remember to check over these things.

Ahmad:
Read each question in its entirety, without thinking "hey, I've done this before, I'll just jump into it" only to find out the question has a small twist.

Ask yourself whether your answer actually makes sense. VCAA always puts questions which make some kind of physical sense. If you get a velocity of a car of 400 m/s, maybe it's too much? With volumes, for example say you have a sphere, you can say, oh, the volume has to be less than if it were inside a cube, so less than (2r)^3 = 8r^3. Even things like imagining a 10 cm per side cube, in real life that's about half a milk carton, so you can tell that the volume would be about 1 L.

Do a question in two different ways, if possible.

Always sketch graphs.

Odette:

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Well there are a few tips i can give you to minimise silly mistakes:
1. Read each question carefully
2. Ask yourself which aos it relates to
3. Think about which formula to apply
4. Make sure that your calculator settings are correct
5. Sub in the correct values into the formula [especially in business maths when it comes to the interest rate and the time]

Thats about it really :)
Hope that helps

Lyonzy:
i wrote all my silly mistakes on the front of my notebook, including things like watching for a+bx and ax+b etc.

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