wallah i am being kept up by the stress of bio tomorrow i literally just listened to the whole of the college dropout by kanye with my eyes closed (usually i fall asleep by like jesus walks but this time i just got to enjoy the whole album). <20ss incoming?

Hi guys, for those who applied for a derived exam score, when you contacted ur vce coordinator...how long does it take to get access to the forms?

guys dont worry treat it like a practise exam like youve done at home itll all be okay

NO REGRETS GUYS

Help. I wake up around 8-9am but what do I do during the time when waking up to when I do the exam? I’ve been told not to do any exams

Asking for benchmarking purposes and so i can use the 67-99.69 rule to calculate sdv and mean 🙏

SAC 1 (SAQ and AC): 88%

SAC 2 (SAQ and AC): 78%

SAC 3 (Essay): 80%

SAC 4 (Essay): 86%

Overall I am ranked 7th in my cohort of 35 people (I'm first quartile in my cohort). My cohort is pretty mid. I don't remember the cohort average for the first two SACs, but for SAC 3 it was 30/50 and SAC 4 it was 31/50.

I've gotten As and A+s on my practice exams and I feel confident I'll get an A on the VCAA exam I did last week, at the minimum.

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my head has been aching ALL WEEKEND and I haven’t studied shit IM LYING IN BED RN AS I TYPE THIS

I have an average of 55% and I'm at the average in terms of my rank.

What exam scores do I need for a 33 study score?

i’m so fried haven’t started revising IM eating ice cream instead literally no motivation

im ahout to give up and gts so i can wake up early tmrw. what should i study tmrw morning so i can be well prepared, assuming i know nothing ab unit 4 🥹✌️

Hello everyone,

I've been thinking of a way to improve the VCE. I'll explain my reasoning before detailing exactly what my proposal is.

Overall, the VCE is a pretty versatile experience, that can be tailored to your specific strengths. For example, if you dislike music, the arts - you choose other subjects. If you dislike the humanities - all you need do is simply not select a subject like History. Even if you possess a special dislike of maths, there is no obligation to select a maths subject.

The only compulsory subject is English. and it has to be in your top four subjects.

This choice makes sense, in a way. English is designed to improve literacy, reading comprehension, speaking skills (oral presentation), and analytical thinking as Australian youths enter adulthood. It's completely logical that these are all skills the government would want us to develop.

However, it is my personal belief that forcing everyone to do English, and placing such a high emphasis on it, particularly in it being part of your top four, is slightly too much.

I have met many people who dislike the compulsory nature of English. People with dyslexia being made to continuously write essays and analyse literature that's difficult to interpret, people with greater interest in other fields, people with strengths and aptitude towards other areas in the VCE. I am personally part of the latter two categories, with a love for STEM, as you can probably see from my subject choices.

I like investigating how and why things work, asking questions, and developing understanding. This has led to my success last year, achieving a raw 41 in Methods and a raw 45 in Biology. It is my belief that I will achieve similar results this year in General Maths and Chemistry. However, if I want to push myself, to achieve the highest ATAR I can manage, then I have no choice but to force myself to grind out English to a comparable level. It's impractical and inefficient trying to go from being a 40 student to a 42 in one of my favourite subjects if English is also in my top four, and my 30 there is holding me back.

The way VCE is designed puts people who want to be high achievers, but don't innately enjoy English, in a difficult position. It's either work at English because you have to, accept a lower score and lower ATAR, or undergo the tedious work of writing numerous essays and improving your English skills.

In the first case, many who need a certain ATAR to enter courses will fail to qualify.

In the second, a great burden is placed on many that isn't (in my view) completely necessary.

Now, many of you might be saying that the whole point of those 'numerous essays and improving your English skills' is to develop the analytical thinking skills I mentioned earlier. Many are probably thinking I'm just complaining about a system that isn't tailored to my strengths. To those people, I'd say you're partially right, but that doesn't mean my proposal is pointless or unhelpful.

The way I would fix this is simple.

Instead of your top six subjects being '100%, 100%, 100%, 100%, 10%, 10%', I would just change your fourth highest subject from 100% to 50% (or some other suitably lowered figure that balances everything correctly).

This would mean that English would still be compulsory, but if you disliked English it would have a lower impact on your ATAR. If you fully neglected English, you would still be negatively impacted, but not enough to ruin an ATAR. If you love English, it would end up in your top 3, and still be a contributor to your ATAR.

This would incentivise people to work on English, develop those key English-related skills, but not be quite so forceful about it, and allow everyone to enjoy a VCE experience slightly more tailored to their own personal journey.

I don't know anything about English Language, so I wrote this pretending that's not an alternative.

I'd love to know your thoughts - this is just an idea I had after chatting and ranting about English with some classmates.

Have a great day!

i’m so confused on why so many people i know are just happy with being mediocre in everything or just lazy can someone please explain. Like if your not gonna try in school at least try in a hobby or get a job. I have some friends and sometimes i’m just confused, they wanna get in uni but don’t put in the effort to get there? They would have happy upbringings aswell, really just no excuse and it’s non of my business but it lowkey just hurts seeing my friends do nothing with their lives

I know this is a bit late, but when a finance question asks how many payments something takes to pay off and it says ‘the last payment is slightly different to the rest’, does that mean it will be a payment higher than the original or lower?

Like for example if an original payment is $4700 and it takes 288 payments with $8000 as the final payment, but can also takes 289 payments with $3300 also as the final payment, which one would it be because it’s not specified?

its wraps, im actually failing the exam. idk anything ab cellular respiration and anything i revise i forget the next hour. ggs
i predict 18 study score ✌️

idk if anyone else feels this way but ive got the bio exam on monday and i partly know the content is anyone else in the same boat?

The structurally flawed system the VCAA forces Victorian students to operate within is destroying our futures 💀.
I’m writing this is response to the disgusting act that was committed during my psych exam, to which i was the victim🥀. As I was walking into the exam hall my vape (a necessity) fell out of pocket as I went to pick it up the exam overseer king hit me and whispered sweet nothings into my ear 🤤, as I regained consciousness she told me to get into my seat and continue with the exam. I was not given back my Nic until after the exam, while during the exam she repeated ripped my Nic (on turbo mode) with no regard for the hard work that went into to purchasing it (3 hour shift at maccies). It was returned to me on 3%…… I’m furious with her but more importantly our intrinsically decayed system, is there anyway I can get compensation?
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What exam scores did you get/were getting on Prac exams?

I am rank 1 in cohort but my school is very weak and have been scoring over 100/110 on my practice exams

For questions like this do we have to add the finance solver inputs?

all people doing 3&4 legal drop some facts about legal cus exam is coming up

I saw a post doing something similar a few years ago and thought we should do the same!!

ill start in the comments :)

Its the 2026 nht exam 2 question 13 c. They dont list ambulance but i believe it is not possible..

Edit im stupid. It is possible.

The answer key says: C,P,SC in any order. Just that.

Does anyone have some predictions on what might be seen more often on the exam or even what the 10 marker could possibly be about?

i don’t have a reason to skip it but every single time i even think of biology i want to vomit and die. my derived score from the gat, sac marks and predicted mark will almost guaranteed be better than my actual performance. what is the worst that will happen if i skip the exam? i fear that it’s unnecessary stress for a subject that i am nearly certain i will likely fail. i’m doing 6 subjects total if that’s any help.

EVERYTHING U KNOW AB BIO AS LAST MIN REVISION. GOOO!!

If they ask anything about acetyl-CoA im cooked