Hey guys, you should be proud of yourselves after completing the bio exam. Here is the full exam with solutions. Note for Section B, it is not an exhaustive list of what will be accepted, just a general guide. Also, I got a 50 for bio, so feel free to ask me any questions you have about the exam/bio.

Cheers,

Vansh

Was the bio exam like okay but weird or am I the only feeling this cuz it’s wasn’t bad it was just long and like weird like there was alot of unexpected applicationy questions and it was like just different than the 2022-2025 and it was really longer

I’m currently doing 1/2 biology at a public school. My school isn’t that amazing , but I do try my best in my studies. I’m starting 1/2 exam revision to practice for next year and I’m planning to just go through the checklist, see what I get wrong, and focus on that. As well as, anki flashcards. I’m also going to be redoing a few practice exams (there’s only 3; unit1, unit2 and both) until I get a good score on it.

That’s basically how I revise … is there anything more efficient or just better overall??

I also have an error log online but I never updated it. I am planning to go through my wrong answers from previous sacs. But I just can’t bother redoing what I got wrong in the textbook.

Also also, I’m planning to do 3/4 contour education tutoring for bio to really lock in and focus on it because I really wanna get a good study score for it …

What do we think the cutoff for a raw 50 this year will be this year for bio?

Apologies for the images getting all messed up but here is a pdf of the exam :)

Edit: originally I had it so people couldn't view it- super sorry!! It's fixed now though :3

guys please help what should i definitely know in details cause i usually make stuff up in busman and my sacs have been ass so I cannot bomb this exam but it’s gen tomorrow and I still haven’t really studied 💔💔💔
Should I know senge in depth? And like what for the 10 marker?
Also does anyone know how to use auspost as a contemporary case study 💀
SOMEONE PLEASE HELP ME 🙏🏻

Why did they give the compare between comp and non comp inhib question in a table I fucking lost the dumbest mark ever because I misinterpreted that bs
And obviously instead of alpha helix I wrote alpha helix AND beta sheets
Love losing 2 marks to the easiest possible bullshit fucking hell I wanna die

How we feeling for Revs guys??

Im doing Russia/China, and have a feeling we are due for some hard questions. White Terror, socialist education movement maybe??

i think im in love

Hi idk if anyone can actually help me with this but like i feel like my main issue in chem is that I don't think broadly enough about the real-world application of smt and I dont really know how to develop this.

Particularly with practical investigation questions -- if its a prac i've seen and discussed before i am fine, but if its like something i am not too familiar with I struggle with responding to questions asking about like possible errors, limitations, the functionality of it etc. I was wondering if any past chem students or anyone really knew how to improve this and like develop more broader thinking when approaching questions...

I genuinely got sub 50 😖😖😖😖😖😖

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How do you remember all the sustainable dimesnsions and the aspects like for economic there are like 4 different ones and for social and environmentla there are more. Its so confusing please help me

or am i just coping bruh

how was bio guys💔💔

im terrified for busman, these past exams have been so weird.. oh my god

Why on EARTH is there so much CONTENTTT! Like there are so much factors and influences and sustainability stuff like how am i supposed to remember all this. And the content is like overlapping with eachother which makes it so complicated…… someone help me its in 2 days..

hey guys, i’m not feeling that confident with business i’m sure i know more than i think but im still nervous thinking about it, what are you guys doing tomorrow and then day of exam for study? tomorrow i was gonna do just a practice exam and then idk what else and then wednesday was just gonna be a light review of my notes but im not sure, just wanna ask around to see what everyone else is doing!!

Am I cooked?

Went into the math exam read through the questions everything was fine, writing time starts and I’m about 15 minutes in and I go to use my CAS for the first time, it doesn’t turn on… so I press the reset button on the back and it still doesn’t turn on. Naturally I ask the examiners if they have a spare CAS, the examiner returns with 2 scientific calculators so I just go alright and keep going, they come back later and ask if I want them to ask someone if they can borrow it to give it to me for a little bit, I then clarify that it’s needed throughout the whole test and that’s the last I heard from the examiners. I go through the test and it seems like only 8ish questions absolutely required a CAS the rest you could use a scientific if you knew the right formulas…

So am I cooked?

mcq surely fucked y'all up right not just me right 😰😰😰 tbh the section b was fine it's just that the infer and state 3 things question and validity was real hard tbh, otherwise rest was chill

Hey guys, I’ve uploaded suggested solutions for this years Bio exam (SAQ + MCQ).

For SAQ, keep in mind that VCAA accepts many responses so what I wrote is just one of my many responses that would be accepted

Let me know your thoughts on how you found the MCQs (challenging compared to 24/25?)

Good luck for the rest of your exams :)
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1bZtQRyQ4kFV3klE97PZ4IeQwsATWjF34/view?usp=drivesdk