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VCE Stuff => VCE Business Studies => VCE Subjects + Help => VCE Economics => Topic started by: p.taaa on February 18, 2013, 06:30:29 pm

Title: Practice outcomes AOS1
Post by: p.taaa on February 18, 2013, 06:30:29 pm

could anyone link me to practice outcomes for AOS1?

Title: Re: Practice outcomes AOS1
Post by: dantan on February 18, 2013, 08:24:58 pm

By practice outcomes do you mean practice questions? What sort of resources do you have so far?

Title: Re: Practice outcomes AOS1
Post by: p.taaa on February 19, 2013, 05:21:24 pm

yeah practice questions that are related to AOS1
so far i have checkpoints and some tssm outcomes, thats pretty much it

Title: Re: Practice outcomes AOS1
Post by: dantan on February 19, 2013, 11:55:36 pm

To be completely honest, I didn't really any additional resources for practice questions. That said, I had an excellent teacher who wrote plenty of practice sacs for us. However, he was of the belief (and having done eco I agree) that for SACs and exams, mastering you content is far more important.

Have you done things like come up with concise definitions for key terms and things like that? To be honest I think that'll get you much further than doing practice questions ad nauseum! But that's my opinion anyway :)

Title: Re: Practice outcomes AOS1
Post by: p.taaa on February 23, 2013, 11:45:00 am

yeah, i know a majority of the theory, but the way i structure my answers causes me to lose marks
so i was thinking that more practice questions would lead to better answers
any tips?

Title: Re: Practice outcomes AOS1
Post by: dantan on February 25, 2013, 07:48:27 am

Ah ok, if I may ask, what sort of areas are you losing marks in, or more specifically, what do you commonly notice yourself losing marks for? I might be able to point out some structure issues a bit easier that way.

Title: Re: Practice outcomes AOS1
Post by: p.taaa on February 26, 2013, 12:52:28 pm

using examples i guess
how would i incorporate examples into an explanation and when will i know when to include examples?

Title: Re: Practice outcomes AOS1
Post by: abcdqdxD on February 27, 2013, 07:21:35 pm

Quote from: p.taaa on February 26, 2013, 12:52:28 pm

using examples i guess
how would i incorporate examples into an explanation and when will i know when to include examples?

Use examples whenever possible

Title: Re: Practice outcomes AOS1
Post by: dantan on February 28, 2013, 09:22:13 am

Quote from: abcdqdxD on February 27, 2013, 07:21:35 pm

Use examples whenever possible

That said, keep your use of examples practical and within reason. Usually, if there is a point you feel needs clarifying, then use them. For example, if you want to elucidate the effect of a certain policy, you might talk about how a fall in cash rate coincided with low CPI inflation figures in a particular month (that's a very rudimentary example). But there will be more specific types of questions in Unit 4 that you definitely need examples :)