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Re: Evolio's VCE Journey
« Reply #150 on: October 11, 2019, 08:56:48 pm »
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Thank you!
I'm excited whenever you post a new journal entry! I always look forward to reading the next update!  :)
By the way, how are you going with biology exam prep?

Hey Evolio! I can most definitely say the same about your journal!!! My biology exam prep has been quite slow and I've consequently only done 2 praccy exams...but Year 11 classes are finishing up so i have more time to focus on Bio :)
How did you find the 2018 Bio praccy exam? I'm halfway through the short answer and my brain is like "nope nope nope nope done nope"
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Re: Evolio's VCE Journey
« Reply #151 on: October 12, 2019, 01:18:36 pm »
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Hey Evolio! I can most definitely say the same about your journal!!! My biology exam prep has been quite slow and I've consequently only done 2 praccy exams...but Year 11 classes are finishing up so i have more time to focus on Bio :)
How did you find the 2018 Bio praccy exam? I'm halfway through the short answer and my brain is like "nope nope nope nope done nope"
Yeah, my 3 4 year 12 classes are DONE after this coming week, so I'll have like 12 free period a week! Lots of time for us to revise!
I found the 2018 exam okay but there were some weird questions that literally made my heart stop, reminding me of how much I need to revise.

Update
I've got my last SAC for methods back and got a 92%! Wowee! I was so scared as my teacher went around the class, passing back our sacs, and I was thinking how I must have failed because I realised after the SAC that I didn't take into account large sample and small sample and what method you use for each. This was on probability. This is my highest SAC for methods and for both of my 3 4 subjects! It's motivated me to ace the exam. That's what I'm aiming for.
Also, I had my chemistry exam yesterday and it wasn't too bad, considering the fact that I didn't study much for it. But, I do know I messed up an organic chemistry question because I didn't draw in the hydrogens...
Because, 3 4 priorities. I don't have ANY time to do any other subjects because I'm already struggling to do one methods exam 2 and one biology exam a day since they total up to like 6 hours or so! And I come home at 5 and sleep at 10 or so so you see the problem there. So, I've been trying to utilise my time, not wasting a single drop of time, studying in the library in the morning for 30 mins, at lunchtimes when I'm free.
I have my specialist exam in week 3 Friday, so a bit of time, but I need to do well. And I need to look over the HARD mechanics stuff because I don't get it, no matter how many people explain it to me. I'll try watch some videos. That helped with the circle geometry stuff when I was studying for my Sem 1 exam.
Also, I came back from methods tution and I got 95% on the exam 1 we did today. Yay! But, for me, it doesn't really mean much because the exam itself wasn't even that hard and the VCAA one is going to be a different story...

Well, that's all folks!
Have a wonderful weekend!
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Re: Evolio's VCE Journey
« Reply #152 on: October 12, 2019, 01:54:10 pm »
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Yeah, my 3 4 year 12 classes are DONE after this coming week, so I'll have like 12 free period a week! Lots of time for us to revise!
I found the 2018 exam okay but there were some weird questions that literally made my heart stop, reminding me of how much I need to revise.

Update
I've got my last SAC for methods back and got a 92%! Wowee! I was so scared as my teacher went around the class, passing back our sacs, and I was thinking how I must have failed because I realised after the SAC that I didn't take into account large sample and small sample and what method you use for each. This was on probability. This is my highest SAC for methods and for both of my 3 4 subjects! It's motivated me to ace the exam. That's what I'm aiming for.
Also, I had my chemistry exam yesterday and it wasn't too bad, considering the fact that I didn't study much for it. But, I do know I messed up an organic chemistry question because I didn't draw in the hydrogens...
Because, 3 4 priorities. I don't have ANY time to do any other subjects because I'm already struggling to do one methods exam 2 and one biology exam a day since they total up to like 6 hours or so! And I come home at 5 and sleep at 10 or so so you see the problem there. So, I've been trying to utilise my time, not wasting a single drop of time, studying in the library in the morning for 30 mins, at lunchtimes when I'm free.
I have my specialist exam in week 3 Friday, so a bit of time, but I need to do well. And I need to look over the HARD mechanics stuff because I don't get it, no matter how many people explain it to me. I'll try watch some videos. That helped with the circle geometry stuff when I was studying for my Sem 1 exam.
Also, I came back from methods tution and I got 95% on the exam 1 we did today. Yay! But, for me, it doesn't really mean much because the exam itself wasn't even that hard and the VCAA one is going to be a different story...

Well, that's all folks!
Have a wonderful weekend!
 ;D

Congrats on you sac!!! I'm in Methods 1/2 currently and we just started probability, it's pretty annoying and seemingly difficult ngl
I'm sure you will reach ur goal and ace the real VCAA exam, even if you thought your tutor's one wasn't hard : ))
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Re: Evolio's VCE Journey
« Reply #153 on: October 12, 2019, 07:02:30 pm »
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Congrats on you sac!!! I'm in Methods 1/2 currently and we just started probability, it's pretty annoying and seemingly difficult ngl
I'm sure you will reach ur goal and ace the real VCAA exam, even if you thought your tutor's one wasn't hard : ))
Thank you!  ;D Yeah, I need to work really hard in the coming weeks to achieve that! Need to stay strong and persistent!
What probability topics are you doing?


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Re: Evolio's VCE Journey
« Reply #154 on: October 24, 2019, 04:19:55 pm »
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How are you going evolio?

Feel prepared for your exams?
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Re: Evolio's VCE Journey
« Reply #155 on: October 24, 2019, 04:57:02 pm »
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How are you going evolio?

Feel prepared for your exams?
Hey Geoo!
I'm going okay, I guess.  I just have so many questions to ask and whenever I get some answered, I have to go away and think about it and digest it and sometimes I get it, but other times, I don't so that's annoying. I have like a million methods questions to ask and they are so hard but hopefully I get them answered real soon! I'm probably going to stop doing practice exams for biology soon and just revise everything. I feel pretty calm about Biology. I think it will be alright.

How are you going with biology exam prep?

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Re: Evolio's VCE Journey
« Reply #156 on: October 24, 2019, 06:40:40 pm »
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Yeah I know that feeling! It happens a lot in maths for me when the teacher use language that I don't understand and then explains that language with other jargon I don't know. So I don't end up feeling like I got a lot of help.

How many practice exams have you done for bio? It is nice to feel like you are almost at the end. I have done about 12-13 past VCAA exams, and this weekend I am going to do all the relevant ones for the study design. But I will be doing what you are, which is just revising! I am terrified of forgetting that one tiny detail that you thought you wouldn't have to know, but then VCAA decides to give you a surprise....  I don't know what to feel for bio at the moment. On the on hand I am not stressed about it, but on the other I am just really disappointed with how my practice exam scores are going, so that got me down a bit, but I just keep trying and hope that everything will turn out alright.
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Re: Evolio's VCE Journey
« Reply #157 on: October 24, 2019, 07:10:23 pm »
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I'm going okay, I guess.  I just have so many questions to ask and whenever I get some answered, I have to go away and think about it and digest it and sometimes I get it, but other times, I don't so that's annoying. I have like a million methods questions to ask and they are so hard but hopefully I get them answered real soon! I'm probably going to stop doing practice exams for biology soon and just revise everything. I feel pretty calm about Biology. I think it will be alright.
That's good to hear in terms of biology! How much of the methods content are you feeling confident about at the minute?

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Re: Evolio's VCE Journey
« Reply #158 on: October 25, 2019, 08:44:43 pm »
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Yeah I know that feeling! It happens a lot in maths for me when the teacher use language that I don't understand and then explains that language with other jargon I don't know. So I don't end up feeling like I got a lot of help.

How many practice exams have you done for bio? It is nice to feel like you are almost at the end. I have done about 12-13 past VCAA exams, and this weekend I am going to do all the relevant ones for the study design. But I will be doing what you are, which is just revising! I am terrified of forgetting that one tiny detail that you thought you wouldn't have to know, but then VCAA decides to give you a surprise....  I don't know what to feel for bio at the moment. On the on hand I am not stressed about it, but on the other I am just really disappointed with how my practice exam scores are going, so that got me down a bit, but I just keep trying and hope that everything will turn out alright.
I've done many VCAA exams but not many trial exams. That's really good! That's sort of what I'm doing. I just finished my second attempt at the 2016 VCAA exam and I will second attempt the 2017, 2018 and 2015 ones as well.
I know right! I'm expecting VCAA to chuck the weirdest, most random question at us. I can feel it.
Same! I feel like my exam scores are stagnant and aren't progressing in the right direction. That's all we can do. Keep trying and doing our best and we will smash it in the end!

That's good to hear in terms of biology! How much of the methods content are you feeling confident about at the minute?
I feel confident about the concepts and stuff. But applying that stuff is a horror story, especially in exam 2. There are some questions that I'm not even able to do from the trial exams which is so bad and there are only two weeks left! What have I been doing! I've been annoying my teachers for questions and will annoy my methods tuition teacher tomorrow with a bunch of questions. I want to clarify my doubts so bad but I also have to focus on biology because it's in a week. Well, all this will be over in exactly two weeks. Which is so weird but nice to think about.

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Re: Evolio's VCE Journey
« Reply #159 on: October 25, 2019, 09:30:22 pm »
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Thank you!  ;D Yeah, I need to work really hard in the coming weeks to achieve that! Need to stay strong and persistent!
What probability topics are you doing?

Sorry, I didn't even see this until now
We just finished the basics like conditional probability, tree diagrams, truth tables etc

Just wondering, which Methods topics did you personally enjoy the most
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Re: Evolio's VCE Journey
« Reply #160 on: October 30, 2019, 11:38:34 am »
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Sorry, I didn't even see this until now
We just finished the basics like conditional probability, tree diagrams, truth tables etc

Just wondering, which Methods topics did you personally enjoy the most
Exponentials and logs and probability. Maybe because my SAC score was the best for probability, lol.


Hello guys! I haven't updated this for quite a while.
So...my biology exam is on Friday and I feel pretty calm. This whole experience is reminding me of my selective school experience. But, at the same time, it's really different.
I just got home from school today since I only had first period,Literature and I did a bit of the 2018 Biology exam in the library here and there before catching my train, sleeping in the train and finally arriving at home. I've been repeating the Biology Exams. It's my third attempt of doing the 2018 Exam so hopefully I get 100%. Tomorrow, we get a day off and so I'll probably correct the 2019 STAV exam I did a long long time ago. Then, I'll probably review my error book for biology. It's gotten quite big now. It takes me an hour to read through all the mistakes. This is my most valuable resource for revision and I hope the time and effort I've put into creating it, pays off!
Well, there are no kids screaming outside which is a benefit of studying at this time. I've also been trying to memorise my student number because we're not allowed to take the ID inside so I even made up a little song to remember it but it sort of backfired because I switched one of the numbers around. Oops.
I should also be doing method because that's next week and I haven't finished everything I wanted to have by this time! I need to get cracking after my biology exam but even today, thursday and friday, I should do methods. Just keep pushing and working hard so that I get a decent score for methods because it's so hard and the questions are so weird and I really need to practice.

Well, there's my rambling for today.
See you guys later!

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Re: Evolio's VCE Journey
« Reply #161 on: October 30, 2019, 06:53:38 pm »
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Exponentials and logs and probability. Maybe because my SAC score was the best for probability, lol.


Hello guys! I haven't updated this for quite a while.
So...my biology exam is on Friday and I feel pretty calm. This whole experience is reminding me of my selective school experience. But, at the same time, it's really different.
I just got home from school today since I only had first period,Literature and I did a bit of the 2018 Biology exam in the library here and there before catching my train, sleeping in the train and finally arriving at home. I've been repeating the Biology Exams. It's my third attempt of doing the 2018 Exam so hopefully I get 100%. Tomorrow, we get a day off and so I'll probably correct the 2019 STAV exam I did a long long time ago. Then, I'll probably review my error book for biology. It's gotten quite big now. It takes me an hour to read through all the mistakes. This is my most valuable resource for revision and I hope the time and effort I've put into creating it, pays off!
Well, there are no kids screaming outside which is a benefit of studying at this time. I've also been trying to memorise my student number because we're not allowed to take the ID inside so I even made up a little song to remember it but it sort of backfired because I switched one of the numbers around. Oops.
I should also be doing method because that's next week and I haven't finished everything I wanted to have by this time! I need to get cracking after my biology exam but even today, thursday and friday, I should do methods. Just keep pushing and working hard so that I get a decent score for methods because it's so hard and the questions are so weird and I really need to practice.

Well, there's my rambling for today.
See you guys later!

omg you have to memorise your number?
we just get a slip of paper stuck on the table with our number on it
Good luck for biology :)

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Re: Evolio's VCE Journey
« Reply #162 on: November 01, 2019, 07:01:14 am »
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Then, I'll probably review my error book for biology. It's gotten quite big now. It takes me an hour to read through all the mistakes. This is my most valuable resource for revision and I hope the time and effort I've put into creating it, pays off!
That sounds like a great resource!! Have you been creating it throughout the whole year? ;D Do you set it out by topic or by the order in which you've done the questions?

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« Reply #163 on: November 01, 2019, 02:31:45 pm »
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That sounds like a great resource!! Have you been creating it throughout the whole year? ;D Do you set it out by topic or by the order in which you've done the questions?
No, I started to prepare for exams. I write the exam as the heading and then write dot points for questions I got wrong.

Exam thoughts:
THAT WAS SO HARD! It seems like everyone else found it easy or alright but I found it so weird and so HARRRDDDD and so random. I'm expecting a 35 study score. More than two years of hard work and this is what happened. Like, I have no idea if I got the question right or not and I don't want to know to be honest. I found the exam extremely hard and let's be real, I'm going to get a 35 study score. *Very very sad, on the verge of tears sad face*.
AAAAAAAAAGHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!! This is terrible. It's the end of the world and this is a failure and that means I didn't succeed in terms of my goals!!!!!! asdfghjkl

 I'm going to be focusing on methods now and I'm going to punch it in the face and destroy it forever in style.
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Re: Evolio's VCE Journey
« Reply #164 on: November 07, 2019, 10:50:53 pm »
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How are you doing evolio?
Did you smash out methods?

Yeah the biology exam was a bit of a weird one. I was just like, where did these topics come from, and where was AOS 1 from unit four? I spent soooo long studying natural selection, allopatric speciation etc and there was nothing in site....
I was so glad I studies the pollen reaction, I honestly thought that I wouldn't see it on the exam but now I am so thankful I did.... Everything else just seemed a bit out of place.... I can't really remember any of the exam questions except like one or two, which I find really funny, I think my mind just imploded.

I really understand when it comes to not reaching goals! I really wanted a 45+ in bio but that really doesn't seem like that is going to happen, I would be lucky to scrape a 40, but I think i will get something like 37, so yeah really disappointing. The good thing is, is that we are in year 11, so we can make up for it next year! It did take me an entire week to feel better about it though....
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