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HSC Stuff => HSC Humanities Stuff => HSC Subjects + Help => HSC Geography => Topic started by: jessica mo on April 03, 2018, 10:41:22 pm
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I've got a geography exam this thursday and i would like some tips on how to approach it.
My weakness is the multiple choice - skills..im just nto great at it.
how would you structure the last section with the essay?
Any help is appreciated...thanks!
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I've got a geography exam this thursday and i would like some tips on how to approach it.
My weakness is the multiple choice - skills..im just nto great at it.
how would you structure the last section with the essay?
Any help is appreciated...thanks!
Hi!
Ok so;
Skills: go through the skills listed in the syllabus and try and find some practice questions or make your own that test these skills, or you can do section 1 of all the past papers and see how you go. If there's any speciffic skills you need help with you can ask on here and I'll give you more speciffic responses - also I think I have a PowerPoint on how to do all the different skills, just hopefully I didn't delete it, I'll try and find that for you.
Essay: with the essay question the structure depends on the question. Break the question down and see if you can come up with 4 or more main points you can discuss. Ecosystems at risk is easiest to structure because this basic scaffold can be applied to most questions
P1: 1st point, 1st ecosystem
P2: 1st point 2nd ecosystem
P3: 2nd point 1st ecosystem
P4: 2nd point 2nd ecosystem
For other topics it's harder to give a solid outline as it depends on the question, but as an example, if an urban places question asks for evidence of economic and cultural authority I would spend 2 paragraphs on economic and 2 on cultural, or if it was an economic activity question on factors then I'd pick 4 factors I'm most comfortable talking about.
Hope that made sense and that it helps you :)
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Hi!
Ok so;
Skills: go through the skills listed in the syllabus and try and find some practice questions or make your own that test these skills, or you can do section 1 of all the past papers and see how you go. If there's any speciffic skills you need help with you can ask on here and I'll give you more speciffic responses - also I think I have a PowerPoint on how to do all the different skills, just hopefully I didn't delete it, I'll try and find that for you.
Essay: with the essay question the structure depends on the question. Break the question down and see if you can come up with 4 or more main points you can discuss. Ecosystems at risk is easiest to structure because this basic scaffold can be applied to most questions
P1: 1st point, 1st ecosystem
P2: 1st point 2nd ecosystem
P3: 2nd point 1st ecosystem
P4: 2nd point 2nd ecosystem
For other topics it's harder to give a solid outline as it depends on the question, but as an example, if an urban places question asks for evidence of economic and cultural authority I would spend 2 paragraphs on economic and 2 on cultural, or if it was an economic activity question on factors then I'd pick 4 factors I'm most comfortable talking about.
Hope that made sense and that it helps you :)
the essay is based on the great barrier reef for the ecosystems at risk so do i just write about the management strategies?
can i talk about volunteers killing crown of thorn starfish as a management strategy for the great barrier reef?
Mod edit: merged double post
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the essay is based on the great barrier reef for the ecosystems at risk so do i just write about the management strategies?
can i talk about volunteers killing crown of thorn starfish as a management strategy for the great barrier reef?
Mod edit: merged double post
Well what you talk about is dependent on the exact question so yes, if if is about Managment strategies then you write about that. For a management strategy question I reccomend doing 2 paragraphs on contemporary and 2 on traditional. Also yes you can talk about killing COTS, and take this one step further by explaining the inefficiencies in this strategy and the consequent development of the COTSBot
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Well what you talk about is dependent on the exact question so yes, if if is about Managment strategies then you write about that. For a management strategy question I reccomend doing 2 paragraphs on contemporary and 2 on traditional. Also yes you can talk about killing COTS, and take this one step further by explaining the inefficiencies in this strategy and the consequent development of the COTSBot
i have quite a few contemporary management strategies but barely any for traditional. Do you have information for traditional management strategies?
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i have quite a few contemporary management strategies but barely any for traditional. Do you have information for traditional management strategies?
For sure!
So, traditional management strategies follow a few different values
- subsistence
- reciprocity
- sustainability
- custodianship
This results in, for the Great Barrier Reef in particular, management strategies such as
- traditional ecological knowledge
- controlled access to reefs
- traditional fishing techniques (eg. Using spears and fish traps rather than modern fishing techniques destined to catch too many fish)
- totems and taboos
- nomadic lifestyle