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Anyone here knows what are exams like in uni??
Would it still have lots of essays? Would it be harder?
 

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Harder yes. You need to know all your content very well. More essays yes
 

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Exams in uni are fairly similar to those you do in the HSC, except a tad harder and more vague. Then again, they vary based on the degree one is undergoing. However, you will come across the usual suspects - essays, multiple choice, short answer.
 

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the are carefully constructed to ensure as many students fail as possible
 

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They are weird and I feel, not really standardised like they are in the HSC (where a huge board comes together to write FAIR and *DOABLE* questions).

You can get these questions which you feel like is way out of your scope - questions that you'd have no idea how to answer coz they ask things that aren't even covered in the semester.......... pretty demotivating to study so hard only to realise that a solid portion of the exam is impossible to answer :(

Depends on what course I guess. For medicine there's not really any essays but the exams are definitely harder. In high school 90+% is the norm and expected. In uni, let's lower that to around 60%... (not because people have become lazier, just that it's impossible lol).
 

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Brah like 20 minutes into the exam, the supervisor would interrupt the time, noting a mistake in one of the questions. What is even proofreading?
 

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Brah like 20 minutes into the exam, the supervisor would interrupt the time, noting a mistake in one of the questions. What is even proofreading?
brah i can't deal

last year in one of my finals at the racecourse, there was 2 other subjects doing exams and their exam was munted with errors and the dumbass supervisor kept interrupting and destroying my focus to correct the question fkn hell
 

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Brah like 20 minutes into the exam, the supervisor would interrupt the time, noting a mistake in one of the questions. What is even proofreading?
You would think that they would give it to the head demonstrator to look it over
 
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Exams in uni are fairly similar to those you do in the HSC, except a tad harder and more vague. Then again, they vary based on the degree one is undergoing. However, you will come across the usual suspects - essays, multiple choice, short answer.
oh okay okay okay. thank you!
 
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They are weird and I feel, not really standardised like they are in the HSC (where a huge board comes together to write FAIR and *DOABLE* questions).

You can get these questions which you feel like is way out of your scope - questions that you'd have no idea how to answer coz they ask things that aren't even covered in the semester.......... pretty demotivating to study so hard only to realise that a solid portion of the exam is impossible to answer :(

Depends on what course I guess. For medicine there's not really any essays but the exams are definitely harder. In high school 90+% is the norm and expected. In uni, let's lower that to around 60%... (not because people have become lazier, just that it's impossible lol).
ooohh... that sounds.........terrible.
either way, many thanks to u :)
 

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