There’s no doubt that preparing for WACE can be stressful – but we’re here to help. We’ve collected the best advice from lecturers and Year 12 students from our WACE Preparation Seminars, and brought it together in one easy blog.
Your stress-less guide to WACE is full of useful tips to help you set priorities, stay calm and make the most of your study time without giving up on Facebook. You’ll also find handy illustrated notes to print and pin up in your study area for extra inspiration.
-
Think of something you enjoy doing. Have you considered this as a possible career path?
David Sheey did, and now he's at Murdoch studying Games Art and Design.
Prompted by a YouTube series called Extra Credit, which focuses on the Games Design industry, David Sheey started to consider his ...
Another common question in our Advance Standing series is:
Q: I did chemistry in year 12 do I have to do it again in my degree?
In some courses, there are prerequisite units in the first year that are similar in content as year 12 subjects, such as chemistry. These are usually ...
Image ↬ careerealism
Credits and exemptions on your course can be applied for various reasons and for recognition of prior learning and together they are known in the uni world as Advanced Standing.
We often get asked the following question by students wishing to get credited for their previous ...
Image ↬
callcentrehelper
Another common question we get asked about Advanced Standing is around what can be applied to a new course when a current Murdoch student changes their degree.
Q: I’m a Murdoch student and have changed my course, what can be ...
Image ↬ Australia.edu.au
For those who get the travel bug, here are some common questions we get asked around receiving credits and exemptions (aka
Advanced Standing) when you study overseas or at another uni:
Q: I have studied abroad can I apply for Advanced Standing?
Q: I have ...
We get lots of students asking us how they can get credits or exemptions on their uni course from their TAFE studies. Credits and exemptions equal what the uni world calls
Advanced Standing. Below are two popular questions answered:
Q: I have a Certificate III or IV from TAFE, can I ...
You may also like and find these useful:
Breaking up with your ATAR and finding a new pathway into uni
Are you a visual, audio, physical or verbal learner?
Preparing for WACE exams: tips for using old exam papers
How to study smarter (not harder) from now until WACE
Be friends with us on Facebook for heaps of tips, advice and event updates.
Perspective Squarecase by Erik Johansson ↬ Deviantart
We get a lot of questions around Advanced Standing and the difference between credits and exemptions and we know it can seem a little confusing at first, deciphering what they all mean and how they apply to you.
Below we cover ...
Bush Court @ Murdoch Uni
It’s always tricky coming to a new place and trying to figure out where everything is so we have compiled some very useful things to help you get a feel for what the campus is like and to make sure you ...
Image from Keyla Cedano
Remember when you were about 5 and people would ask you what you wanted to be when you grew up you’d say something like, I want to be: a firefighter/teacher/nurse/pilot/vet/astronaut?
No one ever said I want to be a Broadcast Technician/Market Research Analyst/Paralegal ...
Waiting for ATAR results and then actually finding out your ATAR score can be a pretty nerve racking time overall, but remember you are not alone!
No matter what your score, if you are feeling completely baffled about what you want to do, try not to FREAK OUT, you are still ...
-
3 students, 3 different pathways; all have the same degree and have started on the same career path.
Finishing school, getting an ATAR score and jumping straight to uni is just one way of doing it and this way, well it might work for some, but not for others.
For whatever reason ...
Your offer into a course at Murdoch will arrive by snail mail (old fashioned post, you know, with an envelope and a stamp?) so remember to check the letterbox.
The letter will contain some important info such as your student number, which you will need ...
-
Just so you have an idea of what to expect, below is a list of all Murdoch courses and the indicative ATAR score you will need to secure a place for 2012.
Although you won’t know your actual ATAR (Australian Tertiary Admission Rank) until results are ...
Click to see larger version
Everyone has different ways of learning and remembering things – some people find that they learn best by doing, where as others find success in re-reading information until it sticks in their brain.
Knowing and applying your study style can help you to ...
Sometimes when we have been sitting down for a lengthy period of time concentrating super hard on something, we forget how long it has been since we got up and had a move around. That’s when we start to get cricks in our necks, back pain, sore eyes and even headaches.
Ideally you will ...
It might seem like a pretty straightforward task, but there are some tricks to using old exam papers. One of the biggest traps is using the old exam paper as the ultimate guide to what you should be studying, but really, the syllabus (if you haven't already got this ask your ...
When it’s time to put your thinking caps on, choose a study spot where you are inspired to get work done.
We wanted to share this great article with you all from the 99 percent website on increasing productivity as it can ...
Phew! For those of you who came to the WACE seminar you had a lot of tips for this one! We have highlighted the ten top tips but a special mention should go to this tip –
“You can only achieve 10% in the exam with the text book”
Click ...
"We Can Slay It - Buffy the Vampire Slayer" By Tom Trager from http://www.redbubble.com/
WAAAAY back in the 1990s there was this show called Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Buffy made Vampire cool long before the recent Vampire Explosion into pop culture in the ...
With the Modern History exam on the morning of the first day of the WACE timetable, all you History Buffs will be getting right into the thick of it super soon! So, no rest for the wicked lets kick things off already with a brief reminder of some study hints ...
As September rolls speedily to an end we just about come to the 1 month mark before WACE exams start.
Don’t freak out!
Breathe.
All good?
Good.
As promised in our previous post about the WACE seminars we are continuing to share tips, handy hints and offer some pretty posters to get you started, or ...
Hello!
It has been a while since our previous post but a lot of ground has been covered at our WACE seminars over the last month.
If there was a seminar that you couldn’t make it to, don’t fret! We will be providing an overview of some of the common subjects here ...
English is a subject you can study for. As we discussed on one of our WACE Preparation Days, it's a good idea to allocate at least three of your study hours to English every week, to help you breeze through your WACE when the time comes.
Here are the top tips ...
-
It was great to see so many Year 12s at our WACE Preparation Days. We know how stressful this time can be - so we'd like to help you make the most of the time you'll spend studying in the lead-up to WACE.
Here are the top 10 tips from everybody ...
Thank you for attending the WACE Preparation Days last week. I hope you enjoyed the program and took away valuable study tips and material to help you prepare for your exams.
Next week, Murdoch University is holding Open Your Mind Day on Sunday 7 August, which I encourage all of you ...
