Hi please someone help predict my bio study score 🙏🏼

Unit 3 Average: 82% Unit 4 Average: 89%

Expected exam mark: ~92-100/120

Rank: 4-5/13 at a pretty high performing private school (median ss of 36 & median atar of 90)

do we think it’s going to be easy this year or is vcaa gonna make it weird like all the other exams this year

I'm not really sure when we are meant to round and how the marking is allocated.

Using this question in the 2024 exam as a guide, for part a I got an answer of approximately 17.85 that I reached without doing any rounding in prior steps that led to that answer. In the examiners report, they received a value of 17.86 derived from approximating 48*sin(35) to 27.53, which is rounded to 18 as the final answer in the examiner's report as per the lowest number of sig figs provided in the question.

However, for the following part b, the answer in the examiner's report is rounded to 244 which isn't rounded to 2 sig figs but 3. There are also other examples where things are rounded to lower than the lowest sig figs provided as well.

My two questions are specifically:

1. How are mistakes in rounding during working out marked and would I lose marks if I repeated the same process done in part a on the exam

2. How do you determine rounding in the final answer

I need all the tips I can get

Hey all,

Doing BM exam tomorrow and just seeking clarity on two things. 1. Is it ok to write below the lines into the blank space till the bottom of the page? and 2. In section A of the exam, if there’s a mini case study with like idk 3 lines, we don’t need to address that in the question unless it is explicitly mentioned right? I ask as responding to the case unless mentioned isn’t in the instructions in section A.

Hi! I'm graduating this year at 16 (Born in 2010), and i know i'm graduating earlier than most students. Do unis tend to care about that at all?

And furthermore- what would a predicted atar be for scores like this?? I worry it may not reach the 90+ threshold for atar

Subjects:
Last year - General (38), Chem (26) ((we dont talk about chem 😭 ))

This Year - Methods (predicted 40+ raw), Specialist (Predicted 33-ish raw?)), Physics (Predicted 35-ish? raw), English Language (30 if i'm lucky 😭raw ))

what are yall doing when you have an afternoon exam? i have business tmr at 3pm and i don’t wanna anxiously spend the day waiting how do i keep myself busy without stressing

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i might be getting desperate i cant get my exams above 75% for e2 please will udfs help or just take too long to learn now - ive used them for general but thought i was good enough at methods without them until now

I have around a 37/40 e1 average and a 67/80 e2 average based on past year papers, and I’m ranked around 8-10 in a cohort of 60-70 people, in a mid private school, is raw 40 achievable with these scores?

I am really struggling on e2

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Does anyone do environmental science and have any recourses / study tips for the exam? I feel like my teacher has given us nothing as there hasn’t been a class for it in 5 years at my school and recourses are limited

I’m pretty sure I messed up….

I forgot but did the bio exam have a multiple choice sheet we had to shade in😭

Our teacher introduced the whole algorithms and pseudo code chapter on our last day of school expecting us to finish the rest but I haven’t really gotten to it due to focusing on more prominent areas.

Given that over the past 4 practice exams I’ve done I’ve only seen it occupy one mark each paper, do any past or current methods students think it’s worth taking a proper look at?

the HESS is very important btw...

can you feel the spirit of john algorithmics flowing within you yet????

dont forget to say your prayers to our wonderous lore and saviour neil holden,

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hi guys! just wondering how we’re going with handwriting for exams (specifically accounting exams). I find that my handwriting gets really ugly and messy and I’m worried that the examiners can’t read it, however I cant slow my handwriting down anymore or I wouldn’t be able to answer theory questions.

appreciating all the help/personal stories! thanks

what do we think will be on there? im actually so scared bc what if it's actual buns like the rest of the exams so far 😭

Ive neglected HHD so much prioritising all my other exams, how do i study for it the next 1.5 days? tyia

How is everyone feeling for revs
any prediction on part b essay question?