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VCE Stuff => VCE Science => VCE Mathematics/Science/Technology => VCE Subjects + Help => VCE Psychology => Topic started by: Eriny on May 25, 2008, 05:32:40 pm
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The Psych mid-year is coming up soon and I hope you all do well and I'll probably think of you as you're completing it.
Hopefully you're feeling confident and you more or less know the course. If not, don't fret, there is still time left.
If you know the whole course off by heart, there is a limit to what else you can do (is that a relieving thought?). Keep revising your notes every couple of days to maintain the same level of knowledge, do as many practice exams as physically possible and try to make your revision interesting - posters, lecturing your stuffed animals with no notes, etc. Invariably, on practice exams you will get questions wrong. Look back on these questions and analyse exactly what you did wrong. Is there a gap in your knowledge? Is it more to do with exam technique? Make sure you understand why you're getting it wrong and then write down what you've learned from it, also make a lists of the little obscure bits of information you pick up as well as more troubling concepts. Review this list. There isn't really any point to practice exams unless you're drawing this kind of thing from them.
It does well to remember that with Psych, as with any subject, just knowing the course is not going to earn you a perfect score, you have to be good at applying your knowledge, which is a bit more difficult (and difficult to discern whether or not you can do it).
All the best!!
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Good advice :) I hope it works out well for me then :P
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thanks :D
hopefully i do well seeing as though its my only mid year :)
good luck to everyone else too!
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The Psych mid-year is coming up soon and I hope you all do well and I'll probably think of you as you're completing it.
Hopefully you're feeling confident and you more or less know the course. If not, don't fret, there is still time left.
If you know the whole course off by heart, there is a limit to what else you can do (is that a relieving thought?). Keep revising your notes every couple of days to maintain the same level of knowledge, do as many practice exams as physically possible and try to make your revision interesting - posters, lecturing your stuffed animals with no notes, etc. Invariably, on practice exams you will get questions wrong. Look back on these questions and analyse exactly what you did wrong. Is there a gap in your knowledge? Is it more to do with exam technique? Make sure you understand why you're getting it wrong and then write down what you've learned from it, also make a lists of the little obscure bits of information you pick up as well as more troubling concepts. Review this list. There isn't really any point to practice exams unless you're drawing this kind of thing from them.
It does well to remember that with Psych, as with any subject, just knowing the course is not going to earn you a perfect score, you have to be good at applying your knowledge, which is a bit more difficult (and difficult to discern whether or not you can do it).
All the best!!
Thanks for the advice! I would also add for all the psych students to read multiple choice clearly and try to cross out ones that you know are wrong. In some practice exams i have made easy mistake for not doing this and realised once I had read over it again.
Also, like i said above, when you finish the exam try to correct it or read over it and you should hopefully be able to pick up any mistakes, if you've made any.
The exam is good for time, most of them i have done there is still about 25 minutes left, so i correct them myself and correct ny errors.
Goodluck to everyone and I look forward to see how you and I went on August 4th!!!!!!!
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BTW do you know when and how we get results? I think it is on the 4th of August?
Is it the same as the end of year results? Can you call, get msg, look on the internet or wait for it via the mail?
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It gets given to you by the staff, I think during August or September.
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Sorry to go of topic again: but can you write in grey lead on the exam? Therefore, you can erase it easier and amend mistakes? Or would you suggest not to use pencil?
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don't use pencil, its not a very good choice. write in pen. because if you write in pencil, by the time your exam moves through everything as in delivered then marked and stuff your writing might rub off, so best to go with black or blue biro
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You have to do multiple choice in pencil though.
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IMO pencil is alot easier to work with. And i dont think that it would rub off when transported. If it was a neccessity, then vcaa would have said so- but yeah- whatever works for you!
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You have to do multiple choice in pencil though.
correct, forgot to mention that
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Hey Eriny, i was just wondering what SAC marks and Exam marks (out of 180) you got in order to get a 50. Thanks.
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4 nights to go!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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whats orientation reflex? and do we have the define it? It's been on a couple of exams iv seen now and i couldn't find it in my book.
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whats orientation reflex?!?!?!?!?! Do you mean orientation constancy lol?
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Hey Eriny, i was just wondering what SAC marks and Exam marks (out of 180) you got in order to get a 50. Thanks.
My SAC marks were all A+, but varied between getting full marks and losing about 6 marks. I was ranked first in my class. As for the exams, I lost 2.5 marks on exam 1 (5 after doubling) and I don't know how many I lost on exam 2, but I think it was only one mark.
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i have no idea what orientation reflex is either! is it from AOS1? i came across a question about reflex arcs/spinal reflexes as well (are they related to orientation reflexes?)...and i couldn't find any info about that in my notes
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i dont think thats part of the study design.
where did you get this questions from?
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Well if you dont know about it and neither do I and its not in the study design, I doubt we have to know it lol.
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Orientation reflex was a term in the old study design (before the current design).
An orientation reflex is a behavioural response. It occurs when the eyes, head and body are turned towards an alarming stimulus. It ties in with elements of the study design relating to stress and stressors.
Don't need to know it :)
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Hey Eriny, i was just wondering what SAC marks and Exam marks (out of 180) you got in order to get a 50. Thanks.
My SAC marks were all A+, but varied between getting full marks and losing about 6 marks. I was ranked first in my class. As for the exams, I lost 2.5 marks on exam 1 (5 after doubling) and I don't know how many I lost on exam 2, but I think it was only one mark.
Do you think your mark would change if you werent ranked first? Because im not ranked first, apparently im third, yet im getting A+ for all my SACS. Do think being ranked lower will impact on my dreams of achieving a perfect score?
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quick question, has it been proven that you can loose 5 marks in both exams and still manage a 50, with 100% sacs?
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I think its 5 marks in one exam or 5 marks all up, not in both exams?
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quick question, has it been proven that you can loose 5 marks in both exams and still manage a 50, with 100% sacs?
5 marks AFTER doubling, yes.
So you would need 175/180 on both exams. That would mean you would lose 2.5 marks on each exam and get 100% for SACs. I'd say you could get a 50 with marks like that.
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I think its 5 marks in one exam or 5 marks all up, not in both exams?
yeah sorry that's what i ment lol. do you know if it depends on the year or is it a 'set in stone' type thing?
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It definitely depends on the year. It depends on the academic strength of the cohort and the difficulty of the exams.
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i dont think thats part of the study design.
where did you get this questions from?
i think from the insight 2005 practice exam, i was rather worried because i thought that any questions i found from exams 2005 onwards would relate directly to the current study design
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Hey Eriny, i was just wondering what SAC marks and Exam marks (out of 180) you got in order to get a 50. Thanks.
My SAC marks were all A+, but varied between getting full marks and losing about 6 marks. I was ranked first in my class. As for the exams, I lost 2.5 marks on exam 1 (5 after doubling) and I don't know how many I lost on exam 2, but I think it was only one mark.
Do you think your mark would change if you werent ranked first? Because im not ranked first, apparently im third, yet im getting A+ for all my SACS. Do think being ranked lower will impact on my dreams of achieving a perfect score?
It depends how well the 2 people ahead of you do as well as how well you do. It's not unheard of for people who are not ranked first to end up getting 50s, but usually when this happens they're in an above average cohort (or at least, the top few performers are very good).
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6 people from my school got 50s last year, and they couldn't have all been ranked equal first, so i'd say you're still in with a fairly decent chance misskaraleah - even if you don't get 50, achieving a score in the high 40s is still pretty spectacular
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6 people from my school got 50s last year, and they couldn't have all been ranked equal first, so i'd say you're still in with a fairly decent chance misskaraleah - even if you don't get 50, achieving a score in the high 40s is still pretty spectacular
6 PEOPLE....what school do you go to????? Only 9 people at my school go over 40 lol!!!
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Thanks for the advice Eriny! :)
6 people from my school got 50s last year, and they couldn't have all been ranked equal first, so i'd say you're still in with a fairly decent chance misskaraleah - even if you don't get 50, achieving a score in the high 40s is still pretty spectacular
Fingers crossed. Lets hope it all works out, or at least i leap frog them in future SACS :P
6 PEOPLE....what school do you go to????? Only 9 people at my school go over 40 lol!!!
*cough* only 2 people at my school..... *cough*
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Thanks for the advice Eriny! :)
6 people from my school got 50s last year, and they couldn't have all been ranked equal first, so i'd say you're still in with a fairly decent chance misskaraleah - even if you don't get 50, achieving a score in the high 40s is still pretty spectacular
Fingers crossed. Lets hope it all works out, or at least i leap frog them in future SACS :P
6 PEOPLE....what school do you go to????? Only 9 people at my school go over 40 lol!!!
*cough* only 2 people at my school..... *cough*
How many students do you have though? I think we would have close to 100 at mine who do psych and 9 got 40. But they were good 40's mainly, like 45 or 44 etc.
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i bet it's Macrob.......i think my school got 15/40 or around that....
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Thanks for the advice Eriny! :)
6 people from my school got 50s last year, and they couldn't have all been ranked equal first, so i'd say you're still in with a fairly decent chance misskaraleah - even if you don't get 50, achieving a score in the high 40s is still pretty spectacular
Fingers crossed. Lets hope it all works out, or at least i leap frog them in future SACS :P
6 PEOPLE....what school do you go to????? Only 9 people at my school go over 40 lol!!!
*cough* only 2 people at my school..... *cough*
How many students do you have though? I think we would have close to 100 at mine who do psych and 9 got 40. But they were good 40's mainly, like 45 or 44 etc.
last year we had about 150 students doing units 3 and 4 studies. so yeah, not so high on that account.