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VCE Stuff => VCE Humanities => VCE Arts/Humanities/Health => VCE Subjects + Help => VCE Global Politics => Topic started by: Insane_Emm on November 02, 2007, 06:08:04 pm
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does anyone else do that here? just wondering about the different ways its being taught at schools and stuff.
what subject did you focus the most on? global conflics; internationalism and globalisation.... etcetc?
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international politics goes into either national politics or international studies at 3/4 i think
i do international studies, it's a great subject, probably the most interesting one ive done/am doing :)
our 4 areas of study were
1. internationalism and globalisation
2. global conflicts (e.g. the Iraq wars, breakup of Yugoslavia, Somalia, Rwanda etc, as well as studying terrorism)
3. Asia-Pacific region (our 'detailed study' was the China-Taiwan crisis)
4. Australian foreign policy
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I'll be doing the subject next year through distance ed. Would those of you that have done it think of it as a subject that would be easy to complete via distance ed (i.e, mostly comprising of doing some reading and writing essays)?
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which one, international studies or national politics?
international studies is a LOT of reading. for all my other subjects i barely used up one folder for the whole year ... for international studies i needed 5. there are lots and lots and lots of handouts, since there is only i think one IS textbook in victoria :roll:
i think you could do it quite easily via distance ed. its really just lotsa reading which you do in your own time :)
do IS, its such an interesting subject :)
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I'm intending to do both National Politics and International Studies, actually! Both through distance ed, since my school doesn't offer the subjects. Ugh, stupid VCAL oriented school.
I'm hoping that some of the content from the international studies course will tie in with history revolutions and UMEP history (hopefully!) next year, that'd make it a lot more mangeable. Is there much opportunity use current events within your answers?
You 2007ers have got a really nice section B topic ths year! I'd love to be doign power in asia/pacific.
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ninwa, why do I get the impression you are underestimating yourself with your predictions hmm?
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I'm intending to do both National Politics and International Studies, actually! Both through distance ed, since my school doesn't offer the subjects. Ugh, stupid VCAL oriented school.
I'm hoping that some of the content from the international studies course will tie in with history revolutions and UMEP history (hopefully!) next year, that'd make it a lot more mangeable. Is there much opportunity use current events within your answers?
You 2007ers have got a really nice section B topic ths year! I'd love to be doign power in asia/pacific.
Well there's not a lot of history in IS, except the wars bit, and those are all post-Cold-War conflicts, which I dont think the history course goes into?
And yes, examiners apparently LOVE it when you mention something current. Like I'm planning on trying to mention that N. Korea has signed that agreement this year to stop with the nuclear weapons or whatever it was lol :)
Yea, I love the Asia-Pacific area of study, esp China-Taiwan, cos then I can argue with my parents over it :P (I'm chinese)
Also I'm just glad we don't have to write on Australian foreign policy lol.
goosefraba: which bit do you think I'm underestimating :P
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Nina, if I am estimating a score in Language for myself higher than your one for English, then something is definitely wrong with the world :P
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not if you knew just how much i screwed up that exam :P
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Ok then, worst case scenario, one of the 10 mark things with that 'are we overprotected' thing you get say 6, that is still 56/60 :P
And you know based on your SoM that chem/bio are estimated too low as well, for a start :)
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huh, I thought chem was being generous. Maybe I should ask some ppl :P
bio seems ok seeing as it was a low A+
ok so i dont really know much about study scores lol
EDIT: also, its not just the POV that i screwed up. i wrote possibly two of my worst essays in history in that exam. also i forgot a conclusion for my analysis. woot.
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I think that if you got exactly the same end of year, mid 40s for chem, low 40s for bio at the very least.
If you think about it, if you lost about the same # of marks end of year, and near perfect sac, then there aren't physically enough study score slots to have a unique # of points between 50 to 40 (eg say 300/300 - 50, 299/300- 49 etc). Which won't be the case hopefully because hopefully not all subjects are as tight or stupid as methods was last year.
I wish I knew what I got for chem. Oh well. Should have a fair indication in 1.5 months anyway :)
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You woulda got just about full marks miss science and maths nerd :P you better get 50 for chem melissa! (no pressure)
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Are the POV and analysis similar to the GAT tasks 2 and 1 respectively, btw? Or something completely different =P
Btw, sorry greater beings I know this is off-topic now xD
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I think that if you got exactly the same end of year, mid 40s for chem, low 40s for bio at the very least.
If you think about it, if you lost about the same # of marks end of year, and near perfect sac, then there aren't physically enough study score slots to have a unique # of points between 50 to 40 (eg say 300/300 - 50, 299/300- 49 etc). Which won't be the case hopefully because hopefully not all subjects are as tight or stupid as methods was last year.
oh, and that went right over my head. i have no powers of logic.
POV is like GAT. analysis is a bit like 1/2 english language ... except we analyse the effect of the language rather than "oh hey here's a noun!" :P
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THERE IS NOTHING WRONG WITH BEING ABLE TO WORK OUT WHAT A NOUN IS!
It is nice, those questions are like 1 mark for 5s of thinking, and there seems to be a few of them. Hopefuly they will still be there this year seeing they decided to make the exam out of 75 not 100, and we're in the 2nd year of a study design so it's like wth, what are you doing to usssss?
I have no idea why for language unit 1 we didn't have an essay on the exam, all the fun stuff is in them...
Anyway, ty :) My only regret of doing language is that I feel excluded from everyone else, it was only a month ago I learnt how the english marking system works etc, and I have no knowledge about what part 1/part 2 means, or how lantana is synonymous with torture, or what the hell room 101 is? (assumedly it isn't somewhere where you start a uni subject)
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THERE IS NOTHING WRONG WITH BEING ABLE TO WORK OUT WHAT A NOUN IS!
Of course there isn't :) [/patronising]
Room 101 is the thing you fear the most in the world (I'm not joking btw)
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international politics? ron paul FTW!
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THERE IS NOTHING WRONG WITH BEING ABLE TO WORK OUT WHAT A NOUN IS!
Of course there isn't :) [/patronising]
Room 101 is the thing you fear the most in the world (I'm not joking btw)
Why would anyone want to go there then?
Haha, I think I'd be most scared of the actual physical room than anything else. I think.
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grr, my school seems to be crap. but then, i knew tht already. we didnt have enough students to do international studies AND national politics or whatever so my school called it International Politics. wonderful.
and we had to do Australians foreign policy. we focusd on taiwan and china too... yay... cos its easy... cough full marks on SAC coughh....
lol
but the exam is my freaking second last one. all my friends finish about the 16th whereas i have politics on the 21st, indo written on the 22nd, grad on the 23rd, WONDERFUL. i seriuosly wil be the only sober person in my group of friends, all that week. ill turn up to grad to watch everyone fall up the stairs on the way to get their certificates, an then ILL fall up the stairs cos im naturally UNCO.
WONDERFUL.
but on tht.. LOVE POLITICS... BEST CLASS... inspired me so much im doing it at Uni next year XD
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THERE IS NOTHING WRONG WITH BEING ABLE TO WORK OUT WHAT A NOUN IS!
Of course there isn't :) [/patronising]
Room 101 is the thing you fear the most in the world (I'm not joking btw)
Why would anyone want to go there then?
Haha, I think I'd be most scared of the actual physical room than anything else. I think.
sif they had a choice :P
ron paul rules :P
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So people are forced into going to see what they fear the most?
Thats horrible, why ;o
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cos the ruling Party are jerks :)
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and what the is this room 101 thing?
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1984 by George Orwell - awesome book :P
Basically if you don't follow the ruling Party you're arrested, tortured and sent to Room 101 - in which your worst fear resides.
e.g. the main character's worse fear is rats, so they stuck a cage on his head full of hungry rats and threatened to let them run loose and basically eat his head alive.
Yeah, it's lovely.
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Basically if you don't follow the ruling Party you're arrested, tortured and sent to Room 101 - in which your worst fear resides.
Great leadership there o_o
Did they eat his head alive? :o
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Nope, cos it was this which caused him to finally capitulate to the Party.
Arghhh its complicated lol. Read the book - it freaked me out so much the first time I read it.
btw mel ... adorable pic! :)
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cara.mel:
Cutest avatar ever.
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Definitions of capitulate on the Web:
* surrender under agreed conditions
haha thank you. It is a meepit, a petpet off neopets xD They are evil :)
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oh ok thanks
so mine would be either my boyfriend dumping me for this 'friend' of mine
or
spiders
lots and lots of SPIDERS
which i cannot STAND
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oh ok thanks
so mine would be either my boyfriend dumping me for this 'friend' of mine
or
spiders
lots and lots of SPIDERS
which i cannot STAND
mine would be being burnt alive.
tho now that you mention the bf thing ... maybe that's up there for me too :P
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ron paul rules :P
Seconded.
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grr, my school seems to be crap. but then, i knew tht already. we didnt have enough students to do international studies AND national politics or whatever so my school called it International Politics. wonderful.
and we had to do Australians foreign policy. we focusd on taiwan and china too... yay... cos its easy... cough full marks on SAC coughh....
lol
i don't understand how they could have taught you a different subject... I'm pretty sure that you have been studying International Studies.
If your exam is on the 21st it's International Studies.
If you exam is on the 15th it's National Politics.
HERE IS THE DIFFERENCE:
Int. Studies:
1: Globalisation / Internationalism
2: Global Conflict / Terrorism
3: Asia / Pacific Region
4: Australian Foreign Policy
Nat. Pol.
1: AUS / US Political systems
2: Continuity & Change
3: Aus Domestic Policy
4: Aus Foreign Policy
they are 2 different subjects. Although the 'foreign policy' area of study overlaps they are approached differently.
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whats politics like?
I wanted to do it last year instead of boring old bus man, but seeing as only 2 ppl signed up for it my school cancelled it for last year :( and I didnt know about distance ed then lol
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it's really good. There is heaps of reading like in International, however the material can be more bland at times. More learning about systems and processes than IR theory (which is more fascinating in my opinion). But yeah, it's a really good subject with loads upon loads of content (like IS) which you heightens your awareness/understanding of the world in which we live.
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Yeah I do International Studies/Politics whatever you want to call it. I thought it'd be an awesome subject, but by the end I've got notes and shit all over the place, there was no set structure like my other subjects, I do somewhat like it, I can learn the informaiton easily because it is actually kind of interesting.. but certainly not what I expected it to be AND it gets marked up by 2 if you get over 35!
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do you have the text book by Derek Scott and Anna Lousie Simpson? It sets out the structure clearly and covers all areas in 'some' detail.
Look at the study design --> the key knowledge dot points. they cleary outline the content of the course and what you will need to know for the exam.
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pfft choc bananas, thanks for telling me how my school runs stuff.
the class is International Studies. i know that. i said we CALLLLL it International Politics, and we've COVERED some stuff from Politics, like a deeper look at Aust Foreign Policy. k?
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So will that Power and Int Politics book suffice for revision and know some current updates in the news? The book even has the vcaa key learning points and stuff... I don't know how else I can revise. cheers
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So will that Power and Int Politics book suffice for revision and know some current updates in the news? The book even has the vcaa key learning points and stuff... I don't know how else I can revise. cheers
Yeah the text is a good starting point for revision.
Organize your notes under the key knowledge dot points.
Try to keep the brief and in your own words.
Once your notes are compiled I would recommend going through each topic and locating recent examples, statistics, quotes etc.
Also go through all the key terms that could be used as definitions and make sure you are able to define them properly and clearly - have examples for these aswell...
hope that helps! :-)
any questions feel free to ask. :-)
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Thanks dude, also, I know the essay topic is on Power in the Asia-Pacific, i've decided to do China, does that mean I don't need to know anything on North Korea or could there be questions on it throughout the exam? Any ideas on what the Asia-Pacific topic will be, like the use of hard and soft power or something?
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Yeah you are fine to only focus on China.
I dont know much about Nth Korea but knowledge may also be helpful for other sections. For example.
Globalisation/Internationlism
Nth Korea hasn't opened its markets to the economic forces of globalisation. What have been the consequences/benefits?
Multi National Corps haven't infringed on its sovereignty in any way.. however, UN sanctions have.
Terrorism/Conflict
Was listed by the US as a state that sponsored terrorism.
In the 'axis of evil'
Maybe an example of state terrorism?
Example of limitations to US power?
power in the asia pacific
definitely important to China.
Influences China's national interest and foreign policy formulation/implementation.
History - Korean War, Communist heritage...
China's use of diplomacy, aid etc (many examples)
Aus Foreign Policy
Potential point of conflict for our region - important to national interest.
Important consideration with relationship with China.
US alliance - whats their stance? Does it match ours? Why?
..there is just a few i could come up with but im sure theres more! The good thing about IS is you can never have too many examples!
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oh and the essay topic - i don't know what it will be (sadly)!
Just remember there will be a choice of 3 and they will come straight out of the key knowledge dot points... look at last years and see.
:-)
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oh and the essay topic - i don't know what it will be (sadly)!
Just remember there will be a choice of 3 and they will come straight out of the key knowledge dot points... look at last years and see.
:-)
There's really not that many different topics they can give us. Most of them will be something to do with how a state in the APR uses power to achieve its aims/objectives. Except worded differently to try to trick you :P
You can also mention how the US relies on China as one of the only states which can negotiate with N.Korea re: its nuclear weapons program and part of its power comes from that, or something (I read it somewhere but I can't remember exactly what it said ... I promise I'm not making it up :P)
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International politics is easy, maybe because I can retai the information well I guess compared to other subjects, my teacher reckons no one will get over 40 its hard, but firstly it gets marked up 2 if you get over 35, and getting 35-36 can't be hard
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You can also mention how the US relies on China as one of the only states which can negotiate with N.Korea re: its nuclear weapons program and part of its power comes from that, or something (I read it somewhere but I can't remember exactly what it said ... I promise I'm not making it up :P)
yep. Perfect example. As a bonus it can also be used as an example of a limit to US unilateralism!
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As a bonus it can also be used as an example of a limit to US unilateralism!
yep :) hehe i love this subject
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yep :) hehe i love this subject
me too! :D
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yep :) hehe i love this subject
me too! :D
are you also doing China-Taiwan as your case study for APR?
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Sure am!
A quick tip though - Don't just discuss China-Taiwan in your essay. You will not receive top marks if do. The assessors don't want people just talking about that relationship, they want other case studies, examples and such.
The essay is about China - not China-Taiwan. ;-)
...unification is not China's sole national interest!
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Sure am!
A quick tip though - Don't just discuss China-Taiwan in your essay. You will not receive top marks if do. The assessors don't want people just talking about that relationship, they want other case studies, examples and such.
The essay is about China - not China-Taiwan. ;-)
...unification is not China's sole national interest!
I know :( my whole class thought we only had to talk about China-Taiwan because that's the only stuff we'd learnt .... then in our 2nd last lesson EVER my teacher goes to us, oh btw, you do realise that the One China policy is only a part of China's objectives, you gotta talk about the other parts too ... and we were like :shock: what other parts?!?!
So yeah :( now I have to learn all this new stuff cos my teacher is forgetful. Grr.
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http://www.news.com.au/heraldsun/story/0,21985,22666199-5011680,00.html
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I know :( my whole class thought we only had to talk about China-Taiwan because that's the only stuff we'd learnt .... then in our 2nd last lesson EVER my teacher goes to us, oh btw, you do realise that the One China policy is only a part of China's objectives, you gotta talk about the other parts too ... and we were like :shock: what other parts?!?!
So yeah :( now I have to learn all this new stuff cos my teacher is forgetful. Grr.
lol. my teacher similarly focused almost solely on China-Taiwan.. im dreading the work im going to have to do when I start revising for IS... at least its my last exam so i can focus hard and know the end is not far. :-)
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Sure am!
A quick tip though - Don't just discuss China-Taiwan in your essay. You will not receive top marks if do. The assessors don't want people just talking about that relationship, they want other case studies, examples and such.
The essay is about China - not China-Taiwan. ;-)
...unification is not China's sole national interest!
I know :( my whole class thought we only had to talk about China-Taiwan because that's the only stuff we'd learnt .... then in our 2nd last lesson EVER my teacher goes to us, oh btw, you do realise that the One China policy is only a part of China's objectives, you gotta talk about the other parts too ... and we were like :shock: what other parts?!?!
So yeah :( now I have to learn all this new stuff cos my teacher is forgetful. Grr.
UR JOKING. my class got told tht writing about the divided china issue only would be okay =S shite. i need to study all tht other stuff now, dont i. thank god for this site...
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UR JOKING. my class got told tht writing about the divided china issue only would be okay =S shite. i need to study all tht other stuff now, dont i. thank god for this site...
lol don't worry. Consider yourself lucky that you found out!
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yeah, better to find out now than after the exam!
if you need any help just say, I've got a forest's worth of notes on the other aspects. that I will read. sometime. hopefully before the exam :?
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Hey can anyone give me advice on when to do the essay?? I know this is completely different but for legal last yr i did about half the questions then went to the big question and then went back and did the other questions. I had enough time then. But with this one i really don't know what to do...
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i will be doing it last so that i can get the short answer done quickly, hopefully leaving me enough extra time to write a solid essay. whatever you do make sure you give it 40mins to complete.
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i will be doing it last so that i can get the short answer done quickly, hopefully leaving me enough extra time to write a solid essay. whatever you do make sure you give it 40mins to complete.
Yeah, me too. Otherwise I find that I waste too much time going into too much detail (I love the APR AOS too much lol) and then have no time for the short answer (esp definitions & definition-based qs like what are the root causes of terrorism etc which are easy marks)
But ultimately it's up to you and how you function best. Good luck :)
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Hooray for International Studies.
I've lost all motivation to study...maybe if the exam was a little earlier.
Ah well,
Good luck to all doing it tomorrow. :)
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I've lost all motivation to study...maybe if the exam was a little earlier.
haha so have I. With the recent weather, its just too hard. I'm hoping the rest of the state is lacking motivation like me
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Amen to that.
Do you know how many people do International?
It's hard to gauge, there were just under 2000 who did it last year so I'm hoping that number is similar, less people to rely on being worse than me.
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Not very many I would think, seeing as a lot of schools don't even offer it.
I'm so screwed on this exam :( all my friends have finished so I'm not exactly in the mood for studying lol
Plus there's just so much to remember!! Anyone else feel this way?
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Not very many I would think, seeing as a lot of schools don't even offer it.
I'm so screwed on this exam :( all my friends have finished so I'm not exactly in the mood for studying lol
Plus there's just so much to remember!! Anyone else feel this way?
Know exactly how you feel.
The cricket has been on which almost inevitably leads to sleep, i fell asleep in my textbook yesterday!
There is a lot to remember, so I'm focusing mainly on Power in the Asia Pac as its the big one this year. I thought I'd also go over one Post Cold-War conflict, I'm concentrating on the breakup of Yugoslavia.
But soon it will all be over!
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I can't get motivated to study and its too bloody hot. It better not be like this tomorrow. They had to move us for my german exam it was so hot it will be a pain if they do it again grr
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I can't get motivated to study and its too bloody hot. It better not be like this tomorrow. They had to move us for my german exam it was so hot it will be a pain if they do it again grr
omg another German student! How'd you go? the listening bit about the plane trips was funny :P "he'll need a thick pullover in January!"
did you find the write in German bit of the reading hard? I thought it was and readings my best part :(
ahem. on topic. I'm going thru all my notes now and thinking, farrrk I'm not gonna remember any of this :(
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Studying for this subject, due to the boring material and the timing of the exam, has become near impossible for me :(.
As you guys are saying, hope the rest of the state is lacking motivation too! I just want this crap to be over now. I'm over it.
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Everyone is drained, I was just talking to my friend doing IP with me and we're both drained and over it he goes 'I hope everyone else in the state is drained' looks like they are, i've reach my limit
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Sooo... how did everybody feel they went?
I thought it was alright, some of the questions caught me off guard and I just had to 'wing-it', like the Security Council question and most of the foreign policy section :oops: I think my part B was o.k. though, i did question 2, but basically 2 and 3 were the same except one you had to evaluate effectiveness and one you had to do that but in reference to regional relationships.
Hooray it's over!
Hope everyone on FSN kills it and gets a 50 :)
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I thought it was pretty good!
Except the UNSC one. I just made something up about that. I think I mentioned Iraq 2, for some reason.
I also did question 2! I've never written that much in any of my practices haha. 6 pages x.x my hand is killing me. Also I think I made up a couple of dates and numbers. Heh ... hope they don't check.
YAY IM FREEEEEEEEEEEE
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I can't get motivated to study and its too bloody hot. It better not be like this tomorrow. They had to move us for my german exam it was so hot it will be a pain if they do it again grr
omg another German student! How'd you go? the listening bit about the plane trips was funny :P "he'll need a thick pullover in January!"
did you find the write in German bit of the reading hard? I thought it was and readings my best part :(
ahem. on topic. I'm going thru all my notes now and thinking, farrrk I'm not gonna remember any of this :(
mmm german was ok i mean it could have gone better but i'm not expecting anything really high in it. The listening part was great it was soooo much easier than in the prac exams. The first writing part was good but the second one wasnt great :s and my main thingy at the end made up so much cr*p i doubt i'll get a good mark in it. I did the theatre question the 1st one.
ok back to nash:
it was pretty good i think. I did the 3rd question for my essay and i was pretty pleased with it. Winged the UNSC question but afterwards i was thinking i'm pretty sure i would have got at least 2 marks for it. i skipped one 3 mark question in afp cos i had no idea and then didnt have enough time to go back without reading over my essay and i thought that was more important. im kinda glad i did now because there was a couple of small mistakes which i fixed up that could have lost me a couple of marks.
Anyway all over now, and have no idea what to do with myself. BRING ON SCHOOLIES!!
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yer i thought it was good, didnt get to read over my essay, i know i screwed something up in that as i read the first para and a whole line was missing lol! ahh well its over now, i wrote 4 pages which is good i think...6 pages is massive!!!!!!
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I did very well! I did question 3 for asia-pacific, like someone said above, it was the same but there was something in 2 i didnt know. the Security Council one was a left field one but I think I might have got atleast half the marks for it. And the foreign policy question for 10 marks omg I screwed it I have no idea. But apart from that, very well.
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What was the foreign policy 10-marker?
Was it the security - foreign policy - since 1996 one? That was a crappy question :P I'm not really sure what I talked about ........ I said something about terrorism and US bases in Australia and the East Timor/Solomon Islands problems.
:?
I hate Australian foreign policy :P
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i hate australian foreign policy too!
what did everyone write for the question about why ANZUS was still relevant even thought it was signed 50 years ago?
overall it was good :D
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I think i did alright. I barely remember what i wrote, but i didnt leave anything blank, and i'm pretty sure i wont get 0 marks for any question. My section B was 3-4 pages, which i'm satisfied with. I'm just glad that EXAMS ARE OVER!!!!!!
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what did everyone write for the question about why ANZUS was still relevant even thought it was signed 50 years ago?
I .... can't remember =\
I think I said something like ANZUS is a cornerstone of AFP due to the security environment? and economic advantages? or something.
.... fuck I really can't remember LOL
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What was the foreign policy 10-marker?
Was it the security - foreign policy - since 1996 one? That was a crappy question :P I'm not really sure what I talked about ........ I said something about terrorism and US bases in Australia and the East Timor/Solomon Islands problems.
:?
I hate Australian foreign policy :P
Yeah that was it, I mentioned some crap out terrorism and something about the US/Aus alliance for no reason and filled out 3 quarters of the lines
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Is anybody aware of some sort of study guide/check points for International Studies? I know that there are none available from "A+" who makes the "notes" range, and nor from the official CheckPoints range, but apart from reading newspapers, following the study design, is there any other form or help apart from the textbook?