Exams

[triplejdude]

For all WA students out there, how did you find the English exam today?
IMO it was fairly easy, didn't give us much to work with in the viewing section though

 

[trueblue_91]

English was good...easy question for Hard Times, was able to handle context and language analysis was fine.

Accounting today had a few difficult questions but overall was pretty good IMO

methods tomorrow (done all i can, its all down to luck now)

 

[Jolldo87]

PE on Monday, not looking forward to it at all.

 

[Puddy]

Economics starts for me next Tuesday, then on Wednesday i have Psychology, then the Monday after i have Modern History

 

[that_dood]

For all WA students out there, how did you find the English exam today?
IMO it was fairly easy, didn't give us much to work with in the viewing section though

I found it pretty easy. I picked the cricket passage in the reading, question 5 in the writing which was about the Oxford Press wanting a term that sums up the 21st century, and I thought the viewing images weren't that bad. I picked the Chinese meditators and the Queensland website image plus a text from school.

 

[triplejdude]

I found it pretty easy. I picked the cricket passage in the reading, question 5 in the writing which was about the Oxford Press wanting a term that sums up the 21st century, and I thought the viewing images weren't that bad. I picked the Chinese meditators and the Queensland website image plus a text from school.

Yeah for reading I did passage two for question one and passage one for question two...if that makes sense haha

Which word did you pick for the writing question? I personally did question one, related it to a few texts i've studied in english and media this year

And the reason I didn't like the viewing section was because I found it hard to understand the image that I picked, the Daytona Beach one. In hindsight it was a bad choice, but I think i did well enough for at least 16 or 17/30

 

[nicko99]

if u dont no a answer in a mult-choice always go for C....it occurs the most as being the right answer

 

[magic_johnson!]

if u dont no a answer in a mult-choice always go for C....it occurs the most as being the right answer

haha i always go the letter that i've used the least

 

[Armitage2Riewoldt]

Yeah thats me, or whichever one hasn't been used for a while.

 

[that_dood]

Yeah for reading I did passage two for question one and passage one for question two...if that makes sense haha

Which word did you pick for the writing question? I personally did question one, related it to a few texts i've studied in english and media this year

And the reason I didn't like the viewing section was because I found it hard to understand the image that I picked, the Daytona Beach one. In hindsight it was a bad choice, but I think i did well enough for at least 16 or 17/30

I picked the term "9/11" and how people instantly relate it to terror and fear and i crapped on for two pages.

Yeah I didn't like the Daytona beach image so I didn't use it. That and the bikers on the bridge I didn't touch.

if u dont no a answer in a mult-choice always go for C....it occurs the most as being the right answer

Depends. In WA a teacher of mine was saying that they must evenly spread the answers between A,B,C, and D. That being said C does come up a lot in answers!

 

[ashley12]

I picked the term "9/11" and how people instantly relate it to terror and fear and i crapped on for two pages.

Yeah I didn't like the Daytona beach image so I didn't use it. That and the bikers on the bridge I didn't touch.



Depends. In WA a teacher of mine was saying that they must evenly spread the answers between A,B,C, and D. That being said C does come up a lot in answers!

I actually do the pick one I havent used in a while thing as well...

Whoever said leave the M/C questions last was on the money. Your score in the M/C with 30 questions and 10 minutes to go will be far better then two essay questions with 10 minutes to go...

I remember the funniest mistake I made during the TEE Economics exam two years ago. I did the short answer first, estimated to take roughly 1/3 of the time available. For some reason, I assumed that meant I had 30 minutes to do the question (it was a 3hr exam) This was actually quite lucky, as I needed two hours to fully complete the essay questions...

 

[BlueFan4]

I'm going to my Health and Human Development exam now.

Wish me luck, I'll need it.

 

[Deledio2Conca]

You'll be right mate, good luck.

 

[fairdinkum]

For those of you saying 'English was easy', just remember that if it was 'easy' for you then it was probably also 'easy' for a great number of your peers. Given that the study scores are distributed in a bell curve, the better you are in a subject the harder you want the exam to be - to give you greater differentiation from your (weaker) opponents.

In saying that, if your questions were easy, but questions for other texts looked 'harder', then this is probably a good thing, because you want your classmates doing well.

Funny system, the VCE.

 

[Armitage2Riewoldt]

For those of you saying 'English was easy', just remember that if it was 'easy' for you then it was probably also 'easy' for a great number of your peers. Given that the study scores are distributed in a bell curve, the better you are in a subject the harder you want the exam to be - to give you greater differentiation from your (weaker) opponents.

In saying that, if your questions were easy, but questions for other texts looked 'harder', then this is probably a good thing, because you want your classmates doing well.

Funny system, the VCE.

Stop being so negative, you're making me want to kill myself.

 

[Benno_900]

Haha, yeh.

All my uni exams are this week with one next Thursday (two down, three to go). I started studying on Sunday (first exam was Monday).

OK, so now I don't recommend this obviously. Really struggled with 2 of my exams (I think I still passed them though).

Cramming may have worked for semester 1 but not semester 2.

Still one more to go.

 

[triplejdude]

For those of you saying 'English was easy', just remember that if it was 'easy' for you then it was probably also 'easy' for a great number of your peers. Given that the study scores are distributed in a bell curve, the better you are in a subject the harder you want the exam to be - to give you greater differentiation from your (weaker) opponents.

In saying that, if your questions were easy, but questions for other texts looked 'harder', then this is probably a good thing, because you want your classmates doing well.

Funny system, the VCE.

Spank you Helpy Helperton

 

[darcytiger]

On a stress level of 1-10 how much have you been stressing about exams.

Me, about -4.

Did a few plans for English, wrote 1 practice essay.
Didn't do one second of study for maths
Watched the whole of season 9 of Sienfeld yesterday
Have Business Management in a week, may do a couple of practice exams
Same with Outdoor and Enviro studies.

I'm sitting back in amazement at all my friends stressing, staying up till midnight studying every night. Just relax, everything will work itself out in the end. ENJOY THE LAST COUPLE OF WEEKS!

 

[Mattlowry]

On a stress level of 1-10 how much have you been stressing about exams.

Me, about -4.

Did a few plans for English, wrote 1 practice essay.
Didn't do one second of study for maths
Watched the whole of season 9 of Sienfeld yesterday
Have Business Management in a week, may do a couple of practice exams
Same with Outdoor and Enviro studies.

I'm sitting back in amazement at all my friends stressing, staying up till midnight studying every night. Just relax, everything will work itself out in the end. ENJOY THE LAST COUPLE OF WEEKS!

Maybe because your friends want to actually have something to show for their past 13 years of school work...

 

[Bourky23]

Stop being so negative, you're making me want to kill myself.

haha you'll be fine mate

he's right though, it's a very very strange system the old VCE... as long as it gets you into what you want then it's served its purpose.. don't buy into the whole ranking game system.. eg. your friend might get 97 and you might get 70 but at the end of the day if the 70 gets you into what you want and the 97 doesn't get him into what he wants then you're the winner

obviously try your best and study and all that, but it's not the end of the world

i didn't do as well as i would have liked to and thus had to settle for 3rd pref i think it was, but it has been a blessing in disguise because i've got opportunities i wouldn't have dreamed of getting if i'd got into what i wanted to.. basically only wanted to go there because my friends were and the course looked okay. i still would have enjoyed going there but i'm definitely happy with the way things have turned out for me down here.

 

[Armitage2Riewoldt]

Haha, nah I'm fine man, I only need a 75 and I shouldn't have to put too much effort in to get that. I was aiming for a 91 at the start of the year...

Schools gone 1 year too long for mine, well and truly over it now. Woulda done better if last year was the last year.

On topic, methods non-calc wasn't too bad. Woulda got a C pretty comfortably I think. Made one idiotic mistake thouh. Though .24 + 0.096 was .316 for some reason. *smacks head against wall*

 

[madcat001]

haha yeah A2R, the correct answer to that question was 0.336 I think. I did get quite troubled trying to work out all the little multiplications of decimals in my head but i think i got it right. Overall the exam 1 for methods was neither hard or easy. Pretty fair exam all up i thought.

English was pretty simple like most people have said, but when you're rushing to do 3 essays in three hours its easy to make little grammatical errors and spelling mistakes etc. I think I went ok, I finished with approx. 10-15 mins to go and read over all that I had written except for a paragraph or two. Made a few little changes of words and grammatical changes. Hopefully A to A+ for the exam and a score in the high 30's for the year.

Accounting was pretty simple as well, though its easy to make a small reading mistake etc. The question about the disposal of shop fittings was tricky. The theory aspect of the exam was pretty easy overall though.

 

[carltonfc4eva]

Yeah methods was good today but that only means it won't get scaled as much as last years.

 

[carltonfc4eva]

Haha, nah I'm fine man, I only need a 75 and I shouldn't have to put too much effort in to get that. I was aiming for a 91 at the start of the year...

Schools gone 1 year too long for mine, well and truly over it now. Woulda done better if last year was the last year.

On topic, methods non-calc wasn't too bad. Woulda got a C pretty comfortably I think. Made one idiotic mistake thouh. Though .24 + 0.096 was .316 for some reason. *smacks head against wall*

Its funny that, I know heaps of people that were just over school by year 12 and tried harder in year 11.....me included

 

[Armitage2Riewoldt]

Yeah methods was good today but that only means it won't get scaled as much as last years.

Last years was insane though, 2 marks for a D and 8 marks for a C!

You'd guess that a C would be around 12-14 this year, so I could hope for a C+ to B.