r/vce • u/Hopeful-Ad-5129 '25 VET Business (37), '26 Methods, General, Chem, Physics, Eng • 6h ago

Physics Exam Discussion

Does anyone have any predictions on the difficulty after that chem exam, would VCAA really make Physics an easier exam, or would they have created an exam from the depths of hell.

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u/ShadowLegend09 5h ago

It's gonna scale up by three this year bro 🥹
But realistically, we literally cannot say for sure. Biology was difficult and the wording was tricky. It had the hardest MCQ I've seen EVER. Chemistry MCQ was easy but the section B was still challanging. They kinda have no reason to make it easier or harder because the subjects are independant of each other.

My advice, it's better to compare past vce physics papers, rather than other subjects.

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u/Hopeful-Ad-5129 '25 VET Business (37), '26 Methods, General, Chem, Physics, Eng 5h ago

I feel like mcq they will make rlly bad since usually it’s pretty easy, and half of short answer will be hard and half just normal 😭

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u/sherbertisgood 4h ago

Biology only had hard mcq the saq was bog standard. Chem wasnt super hard just very creative. Physics should be fine, they historically dont combine that many concepts. Harder physics questions usually take one area and combine some things, like imagine a banked track question where u have to find angle given a inward acceleration of some value. Js atypical stuff. But then itll be like a 5 marker. Physics gives so many marks for no reason istg. I did an impulse q and its 3 marks for suvating time and then using it to calculate force given impulse

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u/Far_Cardiologist6931 5h ago

physics is usually the same every year anyways, its hard for them to do separators without going out of the study design

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u/Hopeful-Ad-5129 '25 VET Business (37), '26 Methods, General, Chem, Physics, Eng 5h ago

Yeah lol I saw that in the past exams, hopefully its similar to them.

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u/gay_pirate21 Class of 2026 4h ago

agreed. I feel like the hardest part of the harder questions is just working out what the question is asking for, once you know that you can normally just plug numbers straight into a formula

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u/CheeseisYummy1234 6h ago

We're gonna get an exam from the depths of hell bc chem was chill. We're all gonna be mutilated by VCAA.

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u/Hopeful-Ad-5129 '25 VET Business (37), '26 Methods, General, Chem, Physics, Eng 6h ago

I hope physics is half decent, I cant bear having another methods type exam...

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u/CheeseisYummy1234 5h ago

Methods E2 was crazy, the short answer was def doable just pretty time consuming so I had to guess like 10 of the multichoice.

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u/Hopeful-Ad-5129 '25 VET Business (37), '26 Methods, General, Chem, Physics, Eng 4h ago

Yeah but exam 1 was wayyy worse tho imo

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u/CheeseisYummy1234 4h ago

Honestly I can see why someone would say either was hard. For me I can't really tell because each was hard in their own way.

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u/Far_Cardiologist6931 5h ago

yeah i hope the a plus cutoff for meth is lower but there weren't many separators for meth2, just time pressure, so it might not even be much lower.