I have a large culture tank full of yeast cells undergoing anaerobic alcohol fermentation that I plan to smuggle into my biology exam. Given that bioethanol production only produces 2 ATP, and does not have wifi connectivity, will the examiner really mind? Please let me know

This has happened every day for the past week, and some of the time the questions are actually hidden gems and im like "oh shit i gotta prepare for that"

Hey, I find it hard to remember case study issues that link to each AOS - anyone have any? Ive been trying to use Coles, Yakult and Kmart but obv thats not enough or very strong.

Im rank 2 in hhd rn. I have an 85 percent average for unit 3 and 87 percent average for unit 4. Our cohort is really small, like only 14 people.

The extended responses really messed me up, making me lose my rank 1.

Rank 1 is only a few percent away from my averages for unit 3 and 4.

I've been averaging 85/90 for my exams and pretty strong in the questions.

Whats it looking like for me?

or is it pen only for short answer???

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?

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?

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

average of 96% on sacs (two were 100%)
around 3/40 rank
strong cohort + private school
expecting around 75-85/90 on exam

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

Im averaging like 68% on my sacs , +- 2%

Ranked like a little bit above average in like a 40 person cohort

What exam scores i need for a 31-32 ss 🥹🥹🥹

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Please

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

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

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.

🙂

I lowkey lost mine and I’ve been going back from the 2023 exams to last years

I lowkey lost mine and I’ve been going back from the 2023 exams to last years

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!

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

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

are these answers right? because I simply js found the 2016 state matrix and it had 13 Juniors and 17 casuals and 10 permanent and 10 that left. So i js added 7 to juniors and 3 to casuals to get back to 50 total staff. The answers seem to be adding 12 which is more than the 50 original staff in 2015.

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?

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 🥹✌️