Exams

Exam Details

• Your exam is 15+120 minutes long with a bit over 1 mark per minute. There are three contain 3 sections

  • Section A: 20 Multiple Choice Questions

  • Section B: 20 Short Answer Marks

  • Section C: 60 Case Study Marks

• We will do at least one trial exam in exam conditions that I will mark and give you feedback on

• You are allowed to bring: pens, pencils, highlighters, erasers, sharpeners, rulers and ONE scientific calculator. 

• You are not allowed notes or paper

• The date of the 2025 exam is: Thu 13th November

Subpages

• Summaries, key points, mnemonics, etc

• Exam Revision Sequence 2025

Exam Tips

• Feel free to annotate the questions! Highlight/underline information. Tick off parts of questions as you go

• Reread the question after you've answered it to make sure you answered what it actually asked. Seriously.

• Look for the key action words: describe, explain, justify, identify, outline, etc...

• Sometimes questions are ambiguous - read carefully and do your best to give the answer they probably wanted

• Be smart about MCQs, eliminate the obviously wrong answers before working hard on finding the right one

• In Section C (60% of the exam)

  • information from one question does not (necessarily) affect another. The Case Study and the Question Stem are all you should use for answering any particular question.

  • Remove the Case Study from the booklet during reading time. Make a show of it so that everyone in the class follows suit!

  • ALWAYS refer to the context /  case study.
    ALWAYS. A-L-W-A-Y-S. Without Exception.¹

• Do not abbreviate (for some reason VCAA doesn't like it)

  • Give legislation by its full name then date, 

    • e.g., the Health Records Act 2001 

    • [not the Health Records Act nor Health Act 2001]

  • If asked to identify a line of pseudocode, write it out IN FULL

  • Integer not int, Floating Point Number not float, String not str, Character not char nor chr, Boolean not bool, Dictionary/Associative Array not dict, etc...

  • Only DFD, SRS, XML, CSV, PSM and SQL are acceptable abbreviations. Write SQL injection, not SQLi.

• if a question asks for one thing, then anything after the first will not be marked! (If it asks for two things, et cetera)

• If asked to compare or choose between options, then clearly word your answer to make it obvious that your are comparing

  • If there are more than a couple of marks for such a question, maybe add in definitions of the things you're comparing/choosing

• If  your answer contradicts itself then it will not get full marks

• If you cross out an answer it will not get marked. If you still want it marked, clearly indicate that.