How many past papers ? (2 Viewers)

[Aerath]

did about 70 for 3u hsc last year, atm doing 3 a day, 1 4u 1 phys 1 chem. probably end up with 50x 4u, 30x phys 30x chem

That's insane. And absolutely unnecessary. I bet you don't answer all the questions properly.

Curious and off topic, what was your atar/uai?

99.85, as 4025808 said.

When you do your past papers, do you do it under exam conditions or just pick the questions that you think are hard? For example, for maths, do you go straight to question 6/7 for 3 unit or do the entire test under exam conditions? Because it's a time consuming doing 2-3 hours exams for just 1 paper when you can just do the questions that you think are hard. Or should you combine these two methods?

Do every single question, under exam conditions. If you just skip the 'easy' questions, you forget them, and lose easy marks. I'd rather lose 1-2 marks from a 7 marker I didn't 100% know the answer to, rather than getting 0s and 1s out of 2 for questions that were relatively easy, but I just stupidly forgot certain things. [Yeah, that sentence was a really weirdly worded sentence - sue me]

 

[zhiying]

Its not that insane? I write about 4x A4 pages back to back and I do everything. Takes about 2.5hrs per test, I have nothing else to do since I revised everything a while ago. Plus, I know people who do more :S

 

[apollo1]

did about 70 for 3u hsc last year, atm doing 3 a day, 1 4u 1 phys 1 chem. probably end up with 50x 4u, 30x phys 30x chem

wat did you get for 3U last year? state ranking?

 

[artosis]

Its not that insane? I write about 4x A4 pages back to back and I do everything. Takes about 2.5hrs per test, I have nothing else to do since I revised everything a while ago. Plus, I know people who do more :S

You do 3 exams a day? and u said it takes about 2.5hrs each.
Thats 7.5hrs a day purely on exams only? Wow.

 

[lpodnano]

superb ranks you got

LOL. Its nothing because my cohort is quite weak this year.

 

[apollo1]

LOL. Its nothing because my cohort is quite weak this year.

r u sayin ur skool might drop out of the top 400 this year?

 

[zhiying]

Yeah, I know someone who got 100 and she said she did 10-12 T_T

 

[lpodnano]

r u sayin ur skool might drop out of the top 400 this year?

I'm saying that despite its usual weakness, it's even weaker this year.

 

[apollo1]

Yeah, I know someone who got 100 and she said she did 10-12 T_T

well done on the state rank

 

[zhiying]

LOL nah I wish haha, I was really bad at 3u last year and barely passed my half yearlies (51%) -_- but started to work on it afterwards and got 48 in HSC

 

[Aerath]

Its not that insane? I write about 4x A4 pages back to back and I do everything. Takes about 2.5hrs per test, I have nothing else to do since I revised everything a while ago. Plus, I know people who do more :S

Doing that many past papers doesn't actually help you - it begins to drag down upon you. There are only so many tricks, especially in 3U, where there are even less tricks than 4U.

But yeah, you appear to be an accelerant...so...yeah, 3 papers a day for 3U seems about right.

 

[dalonga]

For MX1 and MX2 I plan to do Ruse papers from 1992 to 2011 plus the last 5 years of hsc papers. Physics and Chem ruse 2000 to 2011 and the last 10 years of hsc papers.

 

[zhiying]

For MX1 and MX2 I plan to do Ruse papers from 1992 to 2011 plus the last 5 years of hsc papers. Physics and Chem ruse 2000 to 2011 and the last 10 years of hsc papers.

Why so much Ruse? I think going back to 1992 is a bit too much, I'd recommend last 10 years of HSC better, its probably as close you can get to the real thing. Also beware of anything not in the syllabus for physics and chemistry before 2003.

Yeah I agree it doesn't all help that much, its just exposure to all sort of questions. I've made plenty of notes so at this point I can't figure out what else to do and I don't want to be lying around and doing nothing lol. And yeah I am an accelerant, did it with Official.

 

[Aindan]

I write out 1 english essay a day and do 1 past paper (rotating about AOS, Mod A,B,C and Mx2, Physics, Chem, Eco). I reckon it's enough. This zhiying - 3 papers a day - that's way too much!

 

[zhiying]

worst liar Aidan lol

 

[apollo1]

worst liar Aidan lol

how culd u possibly no aindan's lying u have never met him. lol.

 

[unknown88]

4 - business, 7- 2u maths, 3- 3u maths, 4-physics, 1-chem, 0- english

 

[2011_]

I am not a 99.95er but I did HSC Geog, HSC Adv English and HSC Chem last year. For Chemistry I did probably 6 or 7 past papers (not necessarily under time pressure) plus two or three Catholic trial papers. I got a Band 6. For Geography, if it's of any interest, I did around 3 past papers, plus half yearly and trial exam at school (Band 6). I was a band 5 in English (I am a slow writer though) and I had done about six past papers, plus half yearly and trial at school

 

[interesting]

hey how do people manage to finish so many past papers?? if you think about it the course ends in term 3 and will leave you like 1 month to do past papers...

 

[Shadowdude]

They obviously do them over the course of the year, not just after term 3.