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VCE Chemistry Free Trial Exam (2017) - written by me!
« on: October 30, 2017, 12:32:25 am »
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Hi all,

This took a while, but I've finished writing the trial exam that I promised a few weeks back! Share it with friends if you think it is helpful.

The exam covers the new study design, and should be quite a bit harder than the real VCAA exam (in retrospect I think some of the multiple-choice questions are quite fiendish  ::)). Please try it under exam conditions if you can - 15 minutes reading, 150 minutes writing, no notes.

I have also attached full suggested solutions to the exam. Discussion of the questions here is still very much encouraged!

As always I will be happy to help with clarifying anything in the exam/answering individual questions. I will update the pdf ASAP if there are errors in the current version.

Good luck! ;)

v2: Fixed some errors, improved the marking scheme slightly
v3: Found and fixed problems in 3 multi-choice questions! I also now have full suggested solutions to go with this copy of the exam!
v4: Minor corrections as pointed out by gypsyakhyar and VanillaRice
v5: Fixing some numerical answers in the suggested solutions, as pointed out by my students IRL
v6: Fixed Section A Q16 and Section B Q8 b. as pointed out by manishmao

Please make sure you have the latest copy of both the exam and suggested solutions!
« Last Edit: November 10, 2017, 04:44:49 pm by Phenomenol »
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Re: VCE Chemistry Free Trial Exam (2017) - written by me!
« Reply #1 on: October 30, 2017, 01:05:41 am »
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Just skimmed the exam looks so professional  ;D

Added to Useful VCE Chemistry Resources!

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Re: VCE Chemistry Free Trial Exam (2017) - written by me!
« Reply #2 on: October 30, 2017, 01:11:52 am »
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awwwww you are toooo kind
I honestly want to hug you so much!
Thank you!!
I am actually speechless of how kind this is, I really hope everyone helps you out when you need and in other times everyone's really kind to you

  :) :-* :)

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Re: VCE Chemistry Free Trial Exam (2017) - written by me!
« Reply #3 on: October 30, 2017, 09:30:46 am »
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Just skimmed the exam looks so professional  ;D

Added to Useful VCE Chemistry Resources!

Thanks so much :D

awwwww you are toooo kind
I honestly want to hug you so much!
Thank you!!
I am actually speechless of how kind this is, I really hope everyone helps you out when you need and in other times everyone's really kind to you

  :) :-* :)

Thank you! You are the one being too kind! I did have some spare time to invest into something like this. (my exams were done a month ago :P)
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Re: VCE Chemistry Free Trial Exam (2017) - written by me!
« Reply #4 on: October 30, 2017, 02:31:31 pm »
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I've forgotten most of Chem, but this looks amazing! You could even say...phenomenal ;)

Thanks so much for your wonderful contributions, Phenomenol - they're really appreciated ;D

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Re: VCE Chemistry Free Trial Exam (2017) - written by me!
« Reply #5 on: November 01, 2017, 01:16:03 am »
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Hi all,

Please update to v3 as I fixed some glaring problems with three of the multi-choice questions :)

Also please find attached in the original post the full set of solutions to go with the latest copy of the exam!

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Re: VCE Chemistry Free Trial Exam (2017) - written by me!
« Reply #6 on: November 01, 2017, 01:21:30 pm »
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Hi all,

Please update to v3 as I fixed some glaring problems with three of the multi-choice questions :)

Also please find attached in the original post the full set of solutions to go with the latest copy of the exam!

 8)

Thank-you so much for this!!! It looks amazing and will be great use to many of chemistry students who come across it - present or future! Thanks again!

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Re: VCE Chemistry Free Trial Exam (2017) - written by me!
« Reply #7 on: November 01, 2017, 01:27:11 pm »
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Love this! Do you mind if I promote it? :)

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Re: VCE Chemistry Free Trial Exam (2017) - written by me!
« Reply #8 on: November 01, 2017, 02:39:22 pm »
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Love this! Do you mind if I promote it? :)

Go right ahead! (I may still want to fix some small things here and there down the road from the current version, but please do! :) )
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Re: VCE Chemistry Free Trial Exam (2017) - written by me!
« Reply #9 on: November 01, 2017, 02:42:44 pm »
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Wait, for short answer question 1d., biogas includes methane right??
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Re: VCE Chemistry Free Trial Exam (2017) - written by me!
« Reply #10 on: November 01, 2017, 04:04:16 pm »
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Wait, for short answer question 1d., biogas includes methane right??

Yes. If you wrote "methane" then you should specify the biological source it can be derived from, in order to distinguish it from methane sourced from underground. In the latter case it would not be considered a biofuel.
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Re: VCE Chemistry Free Trial Exam (2017) - written by me!
« Reply #11 on: November 03, 2017, 03:41:55 pm »
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Thanks man! You're a legend. Just in Section B: Q1a. Power output, watts aren't a term that's used in the chemistry study design. Might confuse some students, such as myself (needed to do a cheeky google, haha!).

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« Reply #12 on: November 03, 2017, 04:07:58 pm »
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correction: Q4ai) proper iupac name for aminoethane should be ethanamine

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« Reply #13 on: November 03, 2017, 04:38:58 pm »
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Question: 2bi) How do we determine if amount refers to volume or mass?

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Re: VCE Chemistry Free Trial Exam (2017) - written by me!
« Reply #14 on: November 03, 2017, 04:43:32 pm »
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Question: Q3 Why are we only getting singlets in the proton NMR?
(sorry for spam, this is exam is awesome, just need help haha)