Hello 🙂
Honestly I think revision is good if you do all the things you mentioned. The importance of doing practice exams is always stressed, but I believe you should make cue cards or try to remember the content so you can remember definitions (depending if it's a content heavy subject or not). Otherwise you might get the same kind of questions wrong during the exams due to a lack of study. However, yes practice exams is definitely beneficial. From doing practice exams (and getting feedback from a teacher rather than marking it yourself), you can:
- realise where your weaknesses lie (e.g., you keep getting questions based on AOS1 incorrect), hence you start reading over your notes based on that
- see how long it takes for you to do an exam; if you're running out of time or finishing quickly every exam, focus on time management
- start getting used to being in test conditions and therefore you won't be as stressed during the actual exam
- and eventually as you do exams, you will see a pattern in the type of questions they ask and have an overall prediction of sorts of what they would ask (e.g., they've asked how to define everything in AOS1 except for ___)
I would also recommend looking at examiners reports as they often put questions in the next years exam that students struggled with in the previous year. Remember to always get feedback for exams as the amount of exams you do does not necessarily matter, but instead how you take the feedback you get to improve.
However, don't dismiss the power of doing quizlets or getting your friend to ask you random questions if you're in the same subject or you're just going to get tired from exams.
In terms of maintaining motivation, I'm not very good at that 😅
Just think of it as this- there are less than 2 months until the end of exams until there is no more VCE (!!!)
For reducing feelings of fatigue, remember that whatever your result is in the end will not have a large impact on you post-VCE, so don't stress too much about studying or if you're not getting what you want in the practice exams you're doing. Remember that nothing is guaranteed in these few months. You can do this!
