Extension of FSN exams

[Odette]

Hey it's Nina and Odette's Business Mangement Exam =P lol

[costargh]

Im going to court (not in the traditional sense) my dream co-contributer

[Nick]

I'd be happy to contribute to producing History Revs and Psych exams. Pending my study scores of course. 

[costargh]

So at the moment we have offers to do:

• Legal Studies- costargh + unmentioned
• Psychology- Nick + Eriny
• History Revs- Nick
• Business Management- Ninwa + Odette
• Economics- Eriny + Applexy
• Accounting- Applxy
• Biology- Ninwa + lids
• International Studies -Ninwa
• German- Ninwa
• Further Maths- Odette
• IT: Applications- Obsolete chaos

+ the already announced ones by enwiabe being Methods, Spesh and Chem

[Mao]

i'll give a crack at writing the IT:A one, waiting on SS, anyone want in?

[enwiabe]

Wow, guys, I don't know what to say. That'd be great! I'm not expecting anything, but if you actually get it done...

Also: We're not going to release any exam without worked solutions. So, yeah, even if they are essay-based, worked solutions are an imperative.

[Mao]

essay based IT exam:

technology is great, discuss.

[ninwa]

So, yeah, even if they are essay-based, worked solutions are an imperative.

So you expect a sample essay then?

[Collin Li]

So you expect a sample essay then?

Yeah, I thought that was pretty obvious though, haha.

For something like an essay, it's probably good to include criteria on what makes a relevant long answer response and what other factors contribute to higher marks. Use VCAA examiner reports to find out what they want.

[costargh]

Answers to Legal Studies exams rarely have the entire answers written up.
Rather, a list of dot points will be included that are required to be addressed to ascertain a certain number or marks. Also, a sample extract of an answer is usually included for 6-10 mark questions where it is inconvenient to type up the entire answer.
For questions with lesser marks it is either in dot point format or just a short paragraph.

[Collin Li]

Okay, but don't confuse examiner reports as being actual solutions, because they aren't (science assessor's reports don't have all the solutions). Dot points sounds sufficient to me, but sample answers would be nicer.

[Odette]

Answers to Legal Studies exams rarely have the entire answers written up.
Rather, a list of dot points will be included that are required to be addressed to ascertain a certain number or marks. Also, a sample extract of an answer is usually included for 6-10 mark questions where it is inconvenient to type up the entire answer.
For questions with lesser marks it is either in dot point format or just a short paragraph.

We'll probably do the same with business management... a few dot points covering various answers and one sample answer =)

[Nick]

With the History Revs one:

Is it okay if I actually write out proper sample responses?

Dot points really don't cut it with history. Dot points will be useless for Revolutions.

Slash I have a personal hatred of dot points lol

[ninwa]

Oh and for international studies - if FSN is going to produce IS practice exams, a new one will have to be written every year, because the area of study which is an essay changes every year x.x

[Collin Li]

Here is what I think the convention should be:

Short answer questions can be answered sufficiently with dot points, but alongside sample answers would be nicer.
Long answer questions will definitely require at least a sample extract, and an outline of the rest of the solution, but a full sample answer is desirable.

Long answer questions are roughly defined as questions worth more than 4 marks, but use your commonsense here: it depends on the subject.