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Exam - is there an emphasis on quotes?
mel_77777:
--- Quote from: Aurelian on September 18, 2011, 10:19:50 pm ---
Do not use quotes. If your teachers are telling you to use an extensive amount of quoting, particularly longish quotes, ignore them.
:)
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Thank you!!
My teacher has emphasised the need for quotes, in fact he marked me down on an essay because i failed to provide ENOUGH quotes. I took a look at the assessment report of last year and the high range responses displayed did not appear to have any quotes within them.
mel_77777:
--- Quote from: Menang on September 18, 2011, 09:15:22 pm ---Just as a point of reference, I memorised over 80 quotes last year for Revs (which I see you did too) so you should be used to it by now! :D
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WoW! That is really impressive, i hope you did well. I did not memorise anything for that rev exam, nor did i memorise all that theory for my biology exam and hence i got a pretty lousy study score. I personally do not like memorising things, so this year i have tried to steer clear of subjects which incoporate a heavy load of memorising. Thank god, philosophy does not require the memorising of quotes!
Menang:
Oh wow, I've actually never heard of not memorising anything before, Aurelian!
You did amazingly well, so I'm thus sure it's entirely possible to get a good study score without memorising quotes, but personally I've always gone by quotes.
Hannah Gould (if you've heard of her - she's a bit of a legend at MacRob) came to give us a little talk last term and she recommended (strongly) memorising quotes. There're obviously different camps to this one.
Personally, memorising for me is easier than writing essays and can be done when you want to study but are too tired for difficult thinking. It's also a convenient thing to do on public transport etc. So normally I just memorise anyway.
Ghost!:
CBF making a new thread, so I'll just keep things going here.
My teacher seems pretty certain this year's section D will be on Knowledge/Truth/Science, has anyone else heard anything different?
Also! How many essays are most people finishing the year with! I'm surprised, I've probably only got five or six... oh well, I'll write more soon. Particularly interested in a response from Aurelian on this one, considering you're our guide in VCE Philosophy!
EvangelionZeta:
--- Quote from: Menang on October 01, 2011, 06:17:48 pm ---Oh wow, I've actually never heard of not memorising anything before, Aurelian!
You did amazingly well, so I'm thus sure it's entirely possible to get a good study score without memorising quotes, but personally I've always gone by quotes.
Hannah Gould (if you've heard of her - she's a bit of a legend at MacRob) came to give us a little talk last term and she recommended (strongly) memorising quotes. There're obviously different camps to this one.
Personally, memorising for me is easier than writing essays and can be done when you want to study but are too tired for difficult thinking. It's also a convenient thing to do on public transport etc. So normally I just memorise anyway.
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Will say that quoting is bad practice for if you ever go into academic philosophy - it's much more concise (and in my opinion, easier) to just express arguments simply in your own terms unless you're writing some weird interpretation paper. And lol @ Hannah Gould - funny kid, that one.
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