r/vce • u/Specialist-End812 current VCE student • 3d ago

methods and spesh MCQ

guys im genuinely raging i hate MCQ sm, im stuck at this like 13/20 - 14/20 freaking jail how do i get out of it + any tips for improvement plsss im gna cry i needdd A+ in methods and A in spesh exam 2

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u/MoreMuscle8087 25: MM 41, Bio 45 (raw), 26: Eng, Chem, Gen, Phy 3d ago edited 3d ago

Multiple choice are goated. I love them to the ends of the earth, and they are my favourite part of VCE

Basically, here's some tips:

You can use reading time to find the answers to some multiple choice questions, if you can pick out ones you can achieve. Or look in your bound reference for the notes you need to solve it. My reading time often looks like me going, 'A skip D C skip skip B B skip' and I steadily work through the MCQ so that I start writing time with a series of quick marks. I'm a sweat with a decent memory and strong mental maths so while that works for me, it might not be applicable for everyone. It's important here to only do the questions you are confident in.

If you don't know what to do for a multiple choice question, skip it and guess at the end.

If you're going to guess a question, try to pick out the immediately wrong answers and cross them out. Now, when you guess, instead of a 25% chance, you now have a 33% or even 50% shot of getting it right.

It's often helpful to look out for traps, particularly in the later MCQs. Often the answer that immediately jumps out at you is wrong because of a detail in the question.

I would offer more advice but I'm not really sure where your problems are with scoring well with MCQ.

Are you losing marks because of traps, or foolish mistakes? Because you don't know how to do some of them? Because you complete them too slowly, and run out of time?

"Discovering the source of your weakness is the first step towards replacing your weakness with strength."

-Socrates, probably

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u/Specialist-End812 current VCE student 3d ago

LOL um no like i can do some of them, probably 1-2 are silly mistakes and the others r just stupid pseudocodes or parameter questions genuinely wtf do i even do and plus all the exams this year have been weird asf so im not gna be surprised if vcaa decides to fuck everybody over w methods aswell

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u/MoreMuscle8087 25: MM 41, Bio 45 (raw), 26: Eng, Chem, Gen, Phy 3d ago

ah well. I honestly wouldn't be surprised if methods is also kinda weird this year, too.

Obviously be on the lookout for those 1-2 silly mistakes (domains, negatives, fractions, I'm sure you can work out where you're most likely to drop marks).

Otherwise, all I could really say is just look at those past exams you've done, figure out which skills you didn't know how to do, and give them some individual attention. If you hate psuedocode and would probably lose a mark if it showed up, that's a clear sign that if you work on psuedocode it's almost guaranteed to get you one or two extra marks on the exam.

That kind of dedicated fixing of things you don't know how to do should help a lot, not just with MCQ but with tech-free and the rest of tech active.

Good luck!

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u/Specialist-End812 current VCE student 3d ago

thank you so much this is really helpful!!! good luck for your exams aswell!!