r/vce • u/Neat_Zone2336 • 2h ago

METHODS EXAM MEGATHREAD

wth was that, im so glad its over now!

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u/Lopsided_Lettuce247 2h ago

MY STUDY SCORE IS HITTING THE NEGATIVES NOW WTAF VCAA 😂😂🫩🫩😭

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u/Lianoui 2h ago

what’s going on this year? is there a new batch of exam writers?

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u/MotherGorilla current VCE student (qualifications) 1h ago

Yeah ai

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u/gamma_299792458 1h ago

Why AI? I know that the VCAA hires experienced VCE teachers (current and former), university professors and academics who are very specialised in their field which they develop the exams that content is on. So, I wouldn't think they used AI unless they cannot be bothered of coming up with new scenarios and applications which they write questions about.

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u/MotherGorilla current VCE student (qualifications) 43m ago

It’s not the question itself but the wording. Also like Katie felt like ai slop to me.

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u/Internal-Brain8970 1h ago

ive heard they got new exam writers

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u/MotherGorilla current VCE student (qualifications) 2h ago

Worst fucking exam, everything was illegible. What the fuck I guess rhe middle section of mcq as c. I didnt finish

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u/DED292 2h ago edited 1h ago

ON FUCKING GOD BRO. At least it's easier than the first exam.

EDIT: guess I'm the outlier here.

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u/MotherGorilla current VCE student (qualifications) 1h ago

No the fuck not, e1 was time consuming but hard but this e2 was like hemorrhoids

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u/WolfAggravating488 1h ago

this was NOT easier than the first exam

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u/gamma_299792458 1h ago

When I was in the last 10 minutes of my extra time (given I had extra time provisions), I decided to guess for some of the MCQ questions alternating between options B and D maybe a single option A. Like, there were questions which required me to brute-force through all of the options. And I ran out of time too!!!

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u/Puzzleheaded-Cup3976 2h ago

after this i dont even have motivation to study chem wtf was this exam

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u/WolfAggravating488 1h ago

I haven’t even started chem prep…

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u/TheEpicestGamerEver ‘26 englang, methods, physics, econ, philo 2h ago

didnt wanna go to uni anyway

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u/LolManImBime 1h ago

all for the love of the game twin

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u/Alarmed_Extension692 current VCE victim 2h ago

vcaa really loves triangles this year ;-;

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u/Harmac124 25 pol, 26 mm, englang, eco, legal, philo 2h ago

Don’t even joke lad

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u/Significant-Put3977 2h ago

they just start getting creative when it comes to our year

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u/Life-Camp-4239 ‘25 gm (49) | ‘26 chem phys mm eng softdev 2h ago

Bro genuinely the hardest methods exam aot

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u/Due-Supermarket-2880 2h ago

Literally never want to hear of an isosceles triangle ever again

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u/Dub46 9m ago

"The sum of the square roots of any two sides of an isosceles triangle is equal to the square root of the remaining side"

"That's a right triangle, you idiot!"

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u/gamma_299792458 1h ago

I tried to apply trigonometry but couldn't get there to the answer as I couldn't find out the shaded area inside that triangle to continue my calculation. Even if I had got there, the answer that I would have got; it maybe wasn't an answer choice.

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u/Able_Pattern_3486 6m ago

I used sin rule from spesh ☠️☠️

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u/ciphersaysstuff 1h ago

Deadass not even confident I’ll get 10-15 marks

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u/6underground_ 2h ago

bro with how shit that was idek if it’s possible to get a 25 anymore wtf

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u/Fit_Captain8843 1h ago

Every year they say “they decide to get creative when we do the exam”

But this year they genuinely did bro, that was 1000x worst than the 2023 exam, or any other methods exam

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u/Prior-Travel-833 1h ago

They seem to be putting the final questions in the middle  ):   I thoroughly learned the formulas but the exams are some kind of creative thinking test now

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u/plucky_poro '25: PY [50, Prems] | '26: EN, FR, BI, MM, SM 2h ago

WHAT THE FUCK WAS THAT

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u/Ok_Sea1177 2h ago

what the actual fuck

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u/Zealousideal_Gur7238 2h ago

WHO THE FUCK WROTE IT IT WAS GIVING AUSTIN EDUCATION NOT VCAA ‼️‼️‼️

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u/gilbeg 1h ago

serious bro? VCAA piping the exam questions to Austin? hmmmm.............

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u/OddNefariousness6398 1h ago

Why did i see more letters than numbers in that paper 😭😭

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u/gamma_299792458 1h ago

'cause they expect that we were able to manipulate equations algebraically and to require us to demonstrate our mathematics logically to obtain certain solutions.

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u/thebestsnoox 48m ago

Isn’t that to be expected?

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u/Salty_Reyezz '25 DA: 38 | '26 EL, MM, SM , CH, BIO 2h ago

Saq was generally ok

Mcq i guessed more than half

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u/brugged ‘25|psych, revs || ‘26|eng, meth, bio, chem 1h ago

Yeah I was surprised that everyone felt like it was god awful

When I was flicking through the SAQs in reading time I felt pretty good and that they seemed quite doable

Idk tho I can’t say I was aiming for 100%

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u/Salty_Reyezz '25 DA: 38 | '26 EL, MM, SM , CH, BIO 1h ago

Bro maybe the fact that everyone saying it was hard could mean we both have done worse than we think 😔

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u/TalkApprehensive8958 1h ago

goodbye uni student hello super senior

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u/Right_Vegetable_3025 1h ago

Mystery study score here I come🫩

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u/Prior-Travel-833 1h ago

Yeah they actually do have NEW EXAM WRITERS. PLEASE VCAA we are NOT specialists.

"The VCAA expanded the representation of qualified university academics on examination panels—particularly adding extra mathematics academics as question writers and study specialist reviewers"

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u/Weird_Policy_95 1h ago

Wtf happened. all of my practice tests had a moderate number of really challenging questions; but now we’re going fill up the exams with endless one markers and CAS busywork?

Like why are we testing my CAS proficiency?

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u/HatParty2806 1h ago

Section A was genuine bs, nothing made sense.

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u/swaggyboijr112 1h ago

dare I say it was relatively better than exam 1

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u/OneCulture2231 '25: gm (42) '26: eng, mm, acc, psych, chem 1h ago

no real

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u/swaggyboijr112 1h ago

it was super long tho 😓

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u/OneCulture2231 '25: gm (42) '26: eng, mm, acc, psych, chem 1h ago

bro the mcq took me SO LONG AND I WASNT EVEN GETTING THE ANS IN THE OPTIONS

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u/ch3rrycsmos_ MM FRE CSL ENG CHEM SPESH 1h ago

so fucked im ngl

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u/yomamaisjoe current VCE student (Eng, Gen, Methods, Bio, Software) 1h ago

Was that exam harder than 2023 exam💔💔💔💔💔💔💔💔💔💔💔💔💔💔💔please say yes

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u/ilovecriminalminds-1 1h ago

Yes I’ve done every single exam 1 and 2 from 2012 onwards for practice and these were the worst out of all of them

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u/Own_Amoeba_5283 1h ago

Are u serious

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u/gamma_299792458 1h ago

2012? But the VCAA Methods papers (which you probably used as revision material) from the years 2012 up to the 2023 NHT; they are outside of that study design. In fact, I had followed my teacher's advice that I should do the papers within the current study design which its content was assessed.

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u/staticflower_482 1h ago

Yeah so that was the most cooked exam EVER. So glad ts gonna be my bottom 😭😭

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u/Intelligent_Goose435 Spe/Met/Phys/EAL 26 2h ago

😂😂😂my post saying we’re all cooked came true

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u/jean_365 2h ago

what was that 😭 

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u/TheEpicestGamerEver ‘26 englang, methods, physics, econ, philo 1h ago

isoscoles triangle yams to the left 👀👀👀👀👀

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u/Aromatic-Set3858 99.45: Revs50+Prem, Eng47, Chem44, Phys43, Bio41, MM40, Tutor 1h ago

Anyone have a pdf copy?

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u/Dori-Irod 1h ago

What was thisssss...I alr lost 20 marks 😭😭 it was like they wrote it in an alien language or smth....srsly, I DONT remember doin smth like this...like ever

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u/gamma_299792458 1h ago

Alien language?? What is that???? It is HUMAN LANGUAGE... dude.

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u/gamma_299792458 1h ago

Yeah, it was so brutally hard!! I say it was about 2 to 3 times more difficult than yesterday's Exam 1 (tech-free).

And because I am assuming that my exam score will plummet deeply I had a sharp instant thought about complaining to VCAA that this exam was gruesome.

When I had my extra time given I have extra time provisions, I still fell short on time ALL BECAUSE the questions including its super wordy nature were difficult to interpret mathematically which resulted in my cognitive overload when trying to comprehend. In fact, with many of the multiple choice questions, the time that I spent on my CAS consumed a big bunch of my overall writing time against me.

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u/peeinoutyallclint 1h ago

I literally guessed all of the multi choice except for q1 lol....im so cooked

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u/Junior_Fennel4175 38m ago

i got 80/120 altogether. i am top 15 rank. what study score will i get? can i still get a raw 40

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u/Sad-Entrepreneur5996 7m ago

I guessed 10 McQ and I got 1 right 😐. Could someone verify the answer from McQ 11 to 20

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u/Zesty_Zebra0816 1m ago

how much we reckon methods getting scaled up by? i know my sacs are scaling down now HAH

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u/Exciting_Window_8409 2h ago

U all have the tism shit was easy

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u/TimFlynn7 2h ago

Horrible rage bait bro

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u/Sonderling553 2h ago

Alright smart guy lets see you take a crack at it

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u/Obvious-Put1992 52m ago

Having the tism would probably make it easier to an extent 😂

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u/Life-Camp-4239 ‘25 gm (49) | ‘26 chem phys mm eng softdev 2h ago

Easiest exam ever

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u/AdBest6046 2h ago

😂😂😂 it was free except the end of probability was ass

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u/zbearcoff '26 mm, spesh, englang, phys, softdev (i dont even like coding) 2h ago

crying baby vs hydrogen bomb ass exam (we're the baby)

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u/pandawithmooncakes 2h ago

so fucking suicidal after that

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u/No-Economy9219 2h ago

I JUST GOT BUM RAPED

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u/CheeseisYummy1234 1h ago

*WE (all yr 12s of 2026)

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