VCE Legal Studies Question Thread

[Liuy]

You finished AOS1 in ONE DAY?

you are superhuman.

[werdna]

You finished AOS1 in ONE DAY?

you are superhuman.

Sort of. Now that you told me chapter 2 of J&O is AOS1 as well, I haven't exactly finished. BUT, I did cover all of chapter 1 of Key Concepts, which covers all of AOS1.

[Liuy]

Still a pretty Darn good effort.

[eeps]

How many chapters/topics does AOS 1 cover? How many AOS's are there in Unit 3? I never look into these things; I just make notes and do the questions.

[Liuy]

Well depends what Textbook you are using, but for KC whole of Chapter One is AOS1 and Chapters 1 & 2 for J&O.

Unit 3 has Three AOS's.

[werdna]

EPL, I thought you were writing notes off the study design, hence you'd know about all this stuff?

[eeps]

EPL, I thought you were writing notes off the study design, hence you'd know about all this stuff?

Ohh, my textbook clearly doesn't correlate to the study design. In "Making & Breaking the Law", I think there are 2 AOS's for Unit 3?

According to my teacher, the first 4 chapters of the textbook that I'm using is AOS 1. There are only 6 chapters for Unit 3 in my textbook. I've finished Unit 3 in that case. My textbook is by far the worst; it doesn't even show what chapters cover each AOS. Sighh.

[flash36]

AOS 1 is pretty easy, you'll all smash it.

[nacho]

ch.1 is like the stuff we did last year anyway..i felt so bored revising it. To be honest, i think i won't skip ahead and finish the course, i'm going to go a bit ahead of my school, so in class is revision and im ahead on SACs..skipping ahead on legal is too boring/hard to do

[werdna]

Agreed. There's so much to do and cover, there's no way I'd even think about finishing the whole thing..

[werdna]

Does anyone know whether I should set up a file with case studies and examples for every topic in the Legal Studies course? I know I'll need to add an example to some answers to the major topics, but for stuff like 'reasons for a change in the law', 'principles of the parliamentary system' and  other minor stuff, should there be examples and extracts from real life situations to support answers to questions on these topics?

[eeps]

Not necessarily everything covered in the course will be tested on the exam. They; being VCAA can only test so much in a 2-hour exam. I doubt you would need to know examples for minor details. Just have examples of cases, acts for big areas; which you can refer to come the end-of-year exam. For example for 'reasons for a change in the law' you can just say 'changing community values and attitudes' and give an example like marriage. That's as far as I would go. It also depends on the allocated marks for the question; I wouldn't waste my time giving an example for a one-mark question. It's up to you though.

[eeps]

Ohh, and I was going to ask; what's people's set-up for Legal Studies? I've got two exercise books; one for notes and the other for doing questions in. I have also got a plastic folder to put work into (i.e. SACs, worksheets).

[werdna]

Ohh, and I was going to ask; what's people's set-up for Legal Studies? I've got two exercise books; one for notes and the other for doing questions in. I have also got a plastic folder to put work into (i.e. SACs, worksheets).

I've got a ring folder which has looseleaf paper for writing notes for each AOS in, one exercise book for doing questions in, a couple plastic pockets for handouts and stuff. I've got a manilla folder for Legal Unit 3 as well - when I'm done with AOS 1 I'll take the notes for AOS 1, put them into a plastic pocket, and move it from the ring folder to the unit 3 manilla folder, so the ring folder only has stuff that's relevant to what I'm doing at that time. Saves carrying heaps of stuff too.

[Liuy]

Agreed. There's so much to do and cover, there's no way I'd even think about finishing the whole thing..

Yea just finished AOS1 today, not gonna do anything more till school starts.