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Re: GAT tips
« Reply #90 on: June 13, 2012, 08:06:18 pm »
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Anyone know how each section is marked. Do the multiple choice weigh more than the essays??

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Re: GAT tips
« Reply #91 on: June 13, 2012, 08:07:41 pm »
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Anyone know how each section is marked. Do the multiple choice weigh more than the essays??

Multi choice are used to make your Humanities and Maths/Science scores, written parts for your English score :)

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Re: GAT tips
« Reply #92 on: June 13, 2012, 08:08:31 pm »
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Anyone know how each section is marked. Do the multiple choice weigh more than the essays??
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Re: GAT tips
« Reply #93 on: June 13, 2012, 08:19:22 pm »
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thanks for clarifying. My mentality has completely chnaged. Im going to focus heavily on the english tasks seeing as english is my weaker subject. In the off chance that I freeze up in one of the end of year exams, it would definitely be the english one.

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Re: GAT tips
« Reply #94 on: June 13, 2012, 09:12:51 pm »
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So if I dont do any maths and science subjects (except for psychology) should I mainly focus on the humanities and essays in the GAT?

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Re: GAT tips
« Reply #95 on: June 13, 2012, 09:13:49 pm »
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...F-Focus? ... In... the GAT?!
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Re: GAT tips
« Reply #96 on: June 13, 2012, 09:15:12 pm »
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Re: GAT tips
« Reply #97 on: June 13, 2012, 09:20:54 pm »
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So if I dont do any maths and science subjects (except for psychology) should I mainly focus on the humanities and essays in the GAT?

Yeah, but sometimes it may be hard to tell whether a questions is hums or science (as apparently psych is a science - I know, it's a terrible mistake by vcaa). So I'd just focus on all the questions just in case :)

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Re: GAT tips
« Reply #98 on: June 13, 2012, 09:30:32 pm »
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So if I'm doing Chinese, Biology and Latin this year, which parts of GAT do I need to focus on? If I don't do English until next year, do I need to pay any attention to it at all?
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Re: GAT tips
« Reply #99 on: June 13, 2012, 09:37:45 pm »
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So if I'm doing Chinese, Biology and Latin this year, which parts of GAT do I need to focus on? If I don't do English until next year, do I need to pay any attention to it at all?
Chinese/latin -> humanities/english area
Biology -> sciences.

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Re: GAT tips
« Reply #100 on: June 13, 2012, 09:38:07 pm »
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Re: GAT tips
« Reply #101 on: June 13, 2012, 09:50:14 pm »
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Enough of the frivolity. Time to bring it and go super-hard. For me the GAT is like hitting the skatepark like a kid. I don't care if i fall flat on my face. Aslong as I go super hard and play to win, the outcome is completely irrelevant.

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Re: GAT tips
« Reply #102 on: June 13, 2012, 10:18:56 pm »
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Please take the GAT seriously.
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Re: GAT tips
« Reply #103 on: June 13, 2012, 10:27:23 pm »
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Alright, so aside from all of the trolling and the "the GAT is a complete and utter waste of time" stigma associated with the GAT, I don't think you need to sit down for 3 hours and do a whole practice exam.

However - in my opinion, you should take the time to familiarise yourself with the sorts of questions you can expect to be faced with and the type of essays you will have to write.

Here http://www.vcaa.vic.edu.au/vce/exams/gat/gat.html you can find the GAT papers from past years.

Don't completely mess around in the GAT - just in case you are subjected to an unfortunate situation in which VCAA looks at your GAT mark to help determine a Derived Examination Score and you've completely stuffed around.

By all means, have some fun but don't completely put it aside.
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Re: GAT tips
« Reply #104 on: June 13, 2012, 10:47:22 pm »
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Also, do you normally do doing the reading time? Should i think of the how to go about writing the essays, or is it worth visually scanning through the entire handout to get a feel for it and quickly distinguish the 'easier'questions so that they can be knocked out of the way early on.

- Whats you're game plan?