THE EXAMINATION CARD WORKS AGAIN The timed "VCE Modern History · Examination" card on the Exam Simulator drew an empty paper and quietly did nothing when tapped. It now opens a full timed run of the practice examinations — Section A short answers and Section B extended responses on Units 3 and 4, under the clock. Also in this update • Practice papers are labelled honestly as practice papers (they are original, exam-style papers, not the VCAA papers) and carry the VCAA label instead of a term borrowed from another state. • Past-paper practice now counts towards your Stats and the adaptive challenge, instead of vanishing into an "other" bucket. • Timed papers made of a few long written questions keep their full advertised time instead of being cut to a few minutes. Good luck to everyone sitting Modern History this November — plan the essay before you write a word of it.

Your unit progress actually moves now — the home screen, Practice Bank and Stats all read the same live numbers, so every screen agrees. Also new: pick up where you left off, a card pointing you at the topic needing the most work, and question counts beside every percentage. Empty practice sets are gone. Thanks to the biggest shark fan we know for spotting this one. Sharks hunt using electroreception — jelly-filled pores on the snout that pick up the faint electric field of a heartbeat, letting them find prey buried in sand.

Tick, tock. Every mock in the Exam Simulator now runs on its own clock — pick a 45-minute paper and you get 45 real minutes, no sneaking extra time (sorry). Hand it in and you'll get a time breakdown showing which questions quietly ate your afternoon, so you know exactly what to drill next. Sitting the real thing is the only part we can't make less stressful.