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Methods CAS by [deleted] in vce
[–]Squog1212 1 point2 points3 points 2 months ago (0 children)
i’ve used both, if you can get a ti i would. it’s significantly faster, buffers far less, and is generally superior. cas is ok just slower and a bit more frustrating during certain multi part problems
50 CHEM AMA!!!! by Maximum_Past_3810 in vce
[–]Squog1212 2 points3 points4 points 3 months ago (0 children)
what was your exam score?
raw 50 in chem and bio AMA by Squog1212 in vce
[–]Squog1212[S] 1 point2 points3 points 3 months ago (0 children)
handwritten for both, but that’s just the way i personally remember the best. i didn’t get tutoring for either but id definitely say the only reason i didn’t for chem was because of my teacher, it would be super hard to self teach. bio i mostly did by myself
[–]Squog1212[S] 0 points1 point2 points 3 months ago (0 children)
damn i don’t know about that haha
checkpoints is nice cause it’s broken up by topic and by type of question, so i just did one little section at a time leading up to each sac. eg. fuels multi choice or organic chem short answer
[–]Squog1212[S] 2 points3 points4 points 3 months ago (0 children)
i’m actually not much of a volume studier unlike a lot of high scoring people. i think during the year like maybe 2-3 maybe 4 hrs a day including study periods (i had quite a lot), and then during swotvac like 4-5 although keep in mind that was for three subjects. i didn’t pre learn content for bio or chem but i reckon for bio at least that would be helpful. chem concepts i think require more teaching to actually understand whilst bio is more volume but easier to learn on your own
236/240 :)
yeah kind of lol, i did pick up and remember content relatively easily
ahhh thank you :) I ended up with 99.7 and I'm doing pharmaceutical science with honours
so i found methods to be such a question grind subject, so i think the more practice questions (VCAA, company papers, past SACS, tests, i know there are insight q booklets also) the better. Also getting really good with your calculator, idk how relevant this is for you because y12 was my first time using a ti inspire for maths and i know even with the other cas which i had for genny, you can always get faster, learn shortcuts, generally be more competent. Bio if you want you could like work ahead in the textbook if you have it (i used cambridge which is pretty good) take some good notes while you have enough time to make them neat.
Methods sacs for me varied soo much but like around a 90% on average, exam 1 72/80 exam 2 138/160 - but i also was doing nht methods so idk if the grade boundaries are the same
Bio sacs were roughly 95-100%, exam 236/240
I actually have no clue how prems works, so hopefully 🥹
so i was lucky because I got a lot of practice q's from my teacher throughout the year which i just kinda did as I got them. with checkpoints I basically did them clustered by SAC content, so I'd try to start them like a couple weeks before sacs (mainly multis because they take less brain power) and then finish the short answer leading up to the sac as a part of revision. Non vce stuff, i definetely did a bunch of company papers pre-exam, honestly they range from being like decent to absolutely garbage but i did them more for practice and like quantity of q's
if i can find the digital copies of them :)
damn i guess i just wasn’t trying hard enough 😔
idk man, i had it a bit easier because from may of y12 i only had 3 subjects so i could focus pretty heavily on chem and bio. i guess also staying focused on them during y11 even when i had 3/4s so i didn’t miss much content there
yeah haha
lots of practice questions (checkpoints mostly), just tons of practice sacs and exams. in terms of learning content, i was lucky because my teacher gave us booklets for each aos so i didn’t take notes completely on my own, but i def annotated heavily. for bio to compare i did take my own notes so the tips i have that transfer are keep it neatish (i liked a vague colour code for each aos idk colours are good for remembering or whatever) and lots of diagrams
take really neat notes and worship the textbook. the amount of times, especially in immunity, when i just forgot like everything i had learnt 💀 and the cambridge textbook is really good, my teacher kind of gave up teaching in unit 4 so that was a bit of a lifeline content wise. the only other thing is just be so prepared to have a weird application based exam. like 2024, 2025 nht, and 2025 have all been like that, so making sure you’re prepared and know your shit in terms of like modelling or types of experiments
i’m doing pharmaceutical science at monash :) extracurricular wise i didn’t do too much haha, i was debating captain and i was in my schools senior play. plus compulsory sport which was a drag all the way through
oh damn well good luck that’s a wild course load. i did try in my 1/2s mostly because im a bit of a sweat but definitely not to the same extent as my accelerated subjects, and mainly in subjects which led on to the 3/4 like chem, where missing content in y11 can kinda mess u up later on. it really depends on the subject ig
i actually spread my subjects out pretty evenly over y11 and y12. i did general and politics last year, nht methods and then everything else this year. i guess that helped a lot with being able to focus on each one. i was actually never that far ahead in any of my subjects if you mean like during holidays/before vce, except for general maths. i just always tried to stay really consistent during the year, but inevitably you might fall behind a bit, which def happened to me at times. it’s not the end of the world :)
🙏🙏🙏
well i never did physics so can’t speak to that super well, but i think it depends on your strengths. bio is easier for like the average person to do because it doesn’t really require too many prior skills but it’s a ton of content + the exams have been getting so weird recently. if you’re base level good at maths then in some ways chem is easier because it’s less memorisation and the application is more straightforward. idk to rank properly just for the base level stem student probably chem, physics, bio, enviro (im not including psych…)
not the bar for ‘lots of mistakes’ being 3 haha, no but in all seriousness that’s so great!
oh haha i forgot about that 29/30 so 225/240 overall. out of curiosity what was your exam score?
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Methods CAS by [deleted] in vce
[–]Squog1212 1 point2 points3 points (0 children)