Ultimate guide to Year 12 exams: QCAA key dates & experts’ top tips

With Queensland’s Year 12 students set for their final exams, here is the ultimate guide to ensure success and the mistakes to avoid.

Desperate to nail those Year 12 exams?

Some of Queensland’s leading teachers are here to help, offering their top tips to ensure you ace the looming QCAA external exams.

Using years of experience at some of the state’s most successful schools, the teachers have broken down all the key areas aspiring students must focus on.

There’s also advice from those who were there before, with hints and tips from a leading Brisbane principal from 2022.

From English to mathematics to biology, these are the top tips from experts in each field on how to achieve test success in 2023.

Adequate preparation and balanced rest is a common theme.

Using your reading time and watching the clock during the exam is another.

And there is also advice from leading students who aced their exams in 2022.

Click the links below to see the expert tips >>

Key dates:

Monday, October 23: First exam

Monday, November 13: Schools: Final date to provide results for interstate VET

Tuesday, November 14: Last exam

Friday, November 17: Final school day for Year 12 students

December 15: Schools: Final subject results for Year 12 students are released via Student Management and Analytical Dashboard, Students: Final subject results and SEPs released via Student Portal

QCAA 2023 timetable

QCAA 2023 timetable

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