Spoof VCE exam quizzes kids on vaping, urinating and TikTok

Year 12 students are sharing a mock assessment featuring questions on video games and social media doom-scrolling. See the exam.

One of the topics covered in the spoof exam is the video game Clash Royale.

A spoof exam doing the rounds of exhausted year 12 students perfectly captures the assessment kids wish they’d been given.

Formatted like an actual exam, the “Study Period Written Examination”, is due to be held on Friday at 9am and has seven questions worth 80 marks.

Topics covered include video game Clash Royale, the most efficient methods of studying (A is doing nothing) and reasons to leave the study area to use the bathroom (E is crying).

Another question asks who is to blame for the oversized curriculum. There is only one answer – A – The VCAA, which is the Victorian Curriculum and Assessment Authority which is responsible for the setting and marking of exams.

Another question asks how to best avoid studying for a maths exam worth 40 per cent of the final grade. “Discuss two different activities that you may undertake at this time to completely avoid studying for this particular exam, and waste as much time as possible,” the six-mark question states.

Other students are letting off steam by boasting about their impressive results.

One who goes by the name “Reggie Cactus” wrote:

“Hey guys, I achieved a Raw 0 in methods. I know it is sort of hard to believe that such an impeccable score is achievable, but I guess you have to take my word for it. I know I am just simply better than everyone in methods. For those asking what my score for exams were in methods, I got a UG (Undeniably Great) mark for both exam 1 and 2, and my teacher said I ranked in the bottom 0.0001 percentile for the cohort (I think it was meant to say “top” instead of “bottom”, teacher must have mistaken me for another student in his email).”

It comes as frustrated legal studies students vented on social media about what they perceived to be a very difficult exam.

“What the heck was that legal exam?” wrote one.

“Worst exam ever” said another.

“VCAA did us dirty,” said another.

The ‘Study Period Written Examination’ is formatted to look like a real exam.

A commercial lawyer was moved to reassure students on one forum.

“If it’s any consolation, I’ve read some of the VCE legal exams and saw zero resemblance to actual legal practice or knowledge required for practising lawyers. If your aim is to become a lawyer, please do not think that your result in this exam will have any bearing on your success as a lawyer,” the lawyer wrote.

Rion Ahl and Andrew Kroger, co-founders of the 50Coach online tutoring program, said there “will be years where VCE exams appear to be harder and less representative of the entire study design, like this year’s legal studies exam”.

“Students have a right to feel upset about this but at the same time, understand that the exam will still function to separate those who have focused hard on their studies and those who have not,” they said.

“If you’ve had a bad exam performance, remember that your final score depends heavily on four of your subjects, your top four. One bad performance won’t markedly affect your broader score.”

The last exam for more than 42,000 students is on November 16, ushering in the next phase: schoolies.