National Politics '09

[steph753]

Is there anyone out there doing national politics this year??

[wombifat]

yes! me! I'm finding it pretty interesting so far. Do you have the text book?

[steph753]

yeah we are using the Indigo handbook for National Politics by Rod Wise.

do you have the textbook?

[Aurelie.]

wow - I was beginning to dobt the existence of a 2009 Nat Pol class! I did the subject last year, it's very, very interesting - and fun, coz you get to debate and scream across the classroom at people. Our classroom was SO chaotic and loud at times!

[Aurelie.]

Well, it ended up being my worst subject I got As on all of my SACs, and then a WAY lower mark on the exam. So did everyone else in my class > we had a shite teacher.

Anyway, I'm probably not the best for advice for this subject lol. But keep up to date with all aspects of current affairs and try and make a list of a few examples (say in the past year) of affairs regarding each topic.

Write heaps of practice essays and know all of your definitions by heart. I have a fairly extensive list of definitions, if you pm me I can send them to you, some of them are a little scratchy though!

[wombifat]

ok yeah thats cool
we had a sac on definitions today and I wrote so much I ran out of time so now I'm really annoyed at myself But hopefully I managed to scrape a decent score

[Aurelie.]

We were told that it's best to keep definitions to two sentences - first: define the term; second: give an example

[wombifat]

yeah but before the sac he kept telling us "oh and you might wanna add that..."
so i just added everything and ran out of time
oh well i guess I know now

[Nic K]

Hi everyone,

I'm just wondering....how many students are in your politics class?

[wombifat]

ten people! lol minimum number to have a class

are you going to the lecture on friday?

[Nic K]

I'm only in year 11 and am planning to do it next year if a class runs.

[Nic K]

We have International politics and that class always has enough. From there, most of the students choose International Studies over National Politics.

I think we might get a class with 7 because there is a Music Styles class running this year with 7 in it so I'll argue that. I have 5 confirmed students wanting to do Nat.

[Nic K]

I'd prefer to do National

[Nic K]

I only have room to do one. A lot of people aren't interested in Australian politics. A lot like different international issues. I'll probably do international if nat  doesn't run.

[xXNovaxX]

I also wanted international When i picked the subject i didn't relise there were 2 types, i thought Unit 3 was international and unit 4 was national, or something like that,

Its an okayyy subject, but i would have liked to learn more on foreign issues, disagreements between nations, types of government systems world wide etc, ah well.