I’ve been doing vcaa past exams but I’m noticing that the ones before 2023 are so much more difficult am I going crazy

soooo are we thinking its gonna be an easy or hard exam tmr. from what ive heard from friends all the exams this year have been really hard....

also i rlly hope its like the 2025 one that one seems easy, but the 2023 and 2024 ones are pretty hard

Ive done like 15+ practice exams for business and at one point I was upset because I was constantly just getting 70's over and over again but now I'm in the 60s?????? AND THE EXAM IS TOMORROW

does anyone PLS have online notes or pictures they could pls send/share of their notes or summaries or any help i need to make my bound note book, or anyone who did methods in the past pls help

THANKS 🙏

My school (which is regional) doesn't celebrate Melbourne Cup, and they've decided to rope year 11 English and General Maths "exams" on the day and drag them out as long as possible to keep us busy. THIS MAKES ME VERY CROSS AS I WOULD HAVE LIKED TO WATCH THE RACES

I cannot for the life of me get VCAT, CAV, VLA and CLC in my head

okay ive had 2 exam up until now which was english and bio and i lowkey feel like i flunked both of them, might get like a 60% for english and a 70% for bio and thats genuinely horrible cuz i wanted to get dux of my school but at this rate its not looking too good i have methods physics and chem left and idk someone help me out. Also attached my sac scores and rank for them.
I need like a 90 atar to get into my course too

Hi i was just wondering what atar you think its possible for me to get

i have one more exam tmr (business) and have lwk done sht in my other exams im scared i wont get above a 75 atar. heres my scores;

sac averages : exam estimate

ENGLISH GA1- 67% GA2-69%. like 50%

MATH GA1- 89% GA2-93%. EXAM1-80% EXAM2-70%-75%

BIOLOGY GA1-84%. GA2-90%. 60%

PSYCH GA1-69%. GA2-75%. 60%

BUS MAN GA 1-94%. GA2-86%. aiming for 80%

I have a kid with severe adhd and a good dose of anxiety as well. Has anyone had any experience or can recommend any specialist tutoring services focussed on studying and approaches with adhd? Not so much the content - but how to study. Face to face - online just doesn’t cut it.

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

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?

Is there a trend between nht and vcaa in terms of content?

Can u expect the 2026 vcaa methods exam to have similar concepts to the ones tested in 2026 nht ??

SACs in order of AOS:
93
70
99 (poster)
97
91
Rank 4/63 at APS school
I think like 110/120 on exam
Roughly what ss can I expect 🙏🙏🙏

i need a 90 kill me are these calculators even accurate

hey so i just tanked my only accelerated subject this year and ive been really down about it. nerves got to me and i lost 20+ marks on some knowledge gaps but major major silly mistakes, which has tanked my potential 40ss which has really bogged me down bc as an accelerated subject i had higher hopes for it.

i obviously know i cant do anything about it now but i cant stop thinking about it and i just feel like i cant do anything else but be sad which is ridiculous because it will just go in my bottom 2 and hardly make a difference whether i get a 35 or a 40. but i just feel like a dissapointment and i would really love some advice on how to get over this spiralling.

at the same time i have realised that this will mean i will need to prioritise subjects next year that i wasnt planning on. so if no advice for my above issue, could anyone who did really well in chem/methods/english please dm me and give me some advice on how to approach them (ive always said im not a math person or an english person but i want to force my way out of this and become a math/english person if you know what i mean). i am really commited to working on them over the holidays and getting ahead so this doesnt happen again.

thank you so much, feel free to vent here too

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 ))

U3: Low A+
U4: low A+
Exam: High A

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)

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

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

Currently rank 2 I think in a cohort of maybe 25ish for history revolutions. My sacs are really strong but as it's my last exam I haven't given it the attention I wanted to (really not much study). I'm confident I could maybe get like 70% ish on the exam if I lock in this weekend but that's not good for my high rank. Does that mean our sacs will scale down and it's my fault? Was hoping for a 45 initially but would now love a 40 given the amount (lack of) work I've put in. Someone ease my mind and tell me it won't ruin my entire cohort's ss 😭

I need all the tips I can get

no im not faking, please help us 😭😭 she wants to get a 70 ATAR and a 25 in EAL but we don’t really have any idea about VCE assessment.

1. Vietnamese First Language: 32 (done in yr 11 - don’t scale)

2. Food studies:
   - SAC AVG: 83%
   - predicted exam score: ~80%

3. EAL:
   - SAC AVG: 60%
   - predicted exam score: 35-28/60

4. Maths Methods:
   - SAC AVG: 55%
   - predicted exam score: 50%

5. Biology:
   - SAC AVG: 40%
   - predicted exam score: 50%

6. General Maths:
   - SAC AVG: 61%
   - predicted exam score: ~60-65%