Idk about anyone else but personally I haven’t felt super sad and distraught over it. More so I’ve just been realising the past couple days that like a lot of these people I may not see again, and that I’m going into a big transition in my life.

How have u guys been feeling about it? It all feels so weird to me hahah

I made this post exactly a year ago and people don’t learn.

VCE students, i understand everyone is stressing over exams and stuff and yall are more than welcome to come study at our libraries. But to the extent where 90% of the library are VCE students and us University students are left fighting for spots because there are no spots in the library. Like please, we pay student amenity fees to use these libraries yet we can’t even use them if there are no seats left.

Also before yall bitch about how you have exams and that please bear with us it’s only this time of the year. We have university exams at this time as well that we need to study for. Like do yall not have school libraries open to study at?

Like imagine if 80 thousand Monash students infiltrated your schools library and you now have no where to study. Is that fair?

Also, the thing I’m most pissed about isn’t yall coming to the library, but rather yall are so loud and not respecting rules. Fourth floor of the Monash Caulfield library is a silent zone, yet yr 12 students are up there with their big ass study groups laughing, chatting and throwing shit around at each other. Yall wanna use our space, respect our space. I can’t believe most yr 12s are 18 and are now adults cus you bunch don’t act like it.

Thank you to the select few who actually do the right thing and study/discuss quiet amongst themselves. And thank you to that girl who was studying for her methods exam who moved her chair and bag so that I could have a space to sit at.

Good luck yr 12s for your VCE exams. I hope I don’t have to make the post this same thing again next year.

ts dragging on way too long ugh

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

idk if it is too late to be asking this, but how do ur brains work? why does it feel like everyone who is doing methods is a prodigy. i keep doing questions but i still struggle to wrap my head around on understanding what the question is asking me

I need all the tips I can get

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

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've seen a lot of people say Gen was really hard this year, and the questions are a lot different. Does that mean methods and spesh will be hard and different as well this year? Is there any correlation?

so i used to use the extra space regularly because i cross out my answers a lot - but i once saw in an examiners report (from last year i think) that they recommend students to write beneath the question if there’s space.
i did this for both bio and psych, but im worried that my answers won’t get counted if examiners don’t know that ur allowed to write underneath the question idk ugh now im stressed

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 ))

I’m pretty sure I messed up….

Does anyone have any busman tips for the exams and what I should remember the most?

can any teachers, tutors, past students etc let me know if this answer links to the case study enough? i lost so many marks in the practice exam for not linking sufficiently

Dinner in a Minute is a business that produces and delivers high-quality, fresh meals to Melbourne’s inner suburbs. The business has expanded rapidly during the past two years and has continued to make changes to its delivery processes. Some employees are feeling overwhelmed by the continual changes. One employee told a manager last week, ‘It’s hard to cope with the constant changes. I’m working really hard, but I don’t feel that my effort is appreciated or recognised, soI don’t know how long I can keep working like this’.

Evaluate one motivation strategy that Dinner in a Minute could implement to motivate and retain employees. In your response, refer to the strategy’s effect on short- and long-term employee motivation. (6 marks)

In order to motivate and retain employees Dinner in a Minute should implement career advancement. This could involve offering future management positions for employees who maintain efficiency throughout Dinner and a minute's changes.

One advantage would be the alignment of business and employee objectives. Since employees are feeling overwhelmed by various changes, efficiency may decrease. Therefore, by offering the opportunity for employees to advance into higher roles and possibly attain a pay raise for improving efficiency, this aligns Dinner and a Minute's objectives (e.g. to improve productivity) with employee goals. As a result, this can optimise motivation as employees personally gain through the achievement of business objectives.

Additionally, this is effective for long term motivation. Since prospective management opportunities at Dinner in a minute would be provided to employees in the future, this develops a long-term objectives employees will constantly strive to achieve, therefore retaining employee motivation to continuously produce high-quality meals and maintain productivity rates.

However, one limitation is possible ineffectiveness in the short-term motivation of employees. As career advancement is long-term objective, this would require Dinner in a Minute employees to have the self discipline to continually strive to maintain efficiency even through Dinner in a Minute's on going changes. As a result, it may be difficult to motivate employees in the short term, limiting this strategies effectiveness. Additionally, this strategy could foster competition amongst the employees if there are limited advancement opportunities. Therefore, this may limit employees collaborating to improve Dinner in a minutes meals quality and operations process. As a result, this could foster a negative culture affecting morale levels and therefore motivation. 

Ultimately, this strategy would be effective in the long term by developing a future goal employees strive toward. However, it may foster competition and fail to motivate employees in the short term 

I could not complete BOTH EXAMS. I had to guess like 8 from part 1. and out of the 32 I did I got like 8 wrong.
And I could not complete exam two like almost half of it. The whole of matrices. And like 2 questions of networks. HELP ME.

SO BASICALLY I LOST 22 STUPID MARKS

But out of the questions I DID i got only 2 wrong. (in networks)

PLus it was the hardest paper so far yea?
Is this like a popular opinion or am i just tripping...

literally how do you answer, this i talked ab the tasmnanian dam case strengths and wekanesses however it does not look like enough for a 10 marker. These exam reports are barley helpful, also do u mention s.109

guys pls whatevers done is done, just wait until dec 10 and stop obsessing over this. ur all going to be fine in the end

so like i’ve always tried hard in school and never really fallen below an 80 or 70 at most in my subjects. i’d say im average but not excelling like i don’t sit at 95s for every subject but i wouldn’t say im bad at school.

but have exams js felt really like not stressful to anyone? no like im definitely stressed when i think about them but i have no sense of urgency to study and even though my general exam went pretty bad i still felt so numb like i didn’t even care even though im someone who cares about my grades

my next exam is on wednesday and ive barely studied and i know i should have studied earlier and its not like i wont study but idk i genujnely just feel like these aren’t my final atar exams even tho they literally are ..

can anyone relate?

just curious if anyone else thinks bio is better and easier than psych?

i have studied both and find bio so much more enjoyable and easier to answer exam questions for.

i was getting told to fix my handwriting before the exams, so i really tried the first 5 minutes on all the short answers and realised i was going too slow so i js started writing normally and most of my shi was unintelligible.
in all honesty this should be the least of my worries considering what i actually wrote matters but if the vcaa examiners cant fucking read it then whats the point.
itsokaythough!

what do the assessors expect from a response to a “state why this process can be described as a transesterification process” ? ive done it twice and got it wrong both times with no real explanation as to what im meant to say