Is Business managment just rote-learning and applying?

[scandin9]

Many of my friends say units 3 and 4 of this subject are just rote learning and memorizing;is this true?

[academicbulimia]

No, you need to fully grasp the content and be able to apply it to different situations and different types of questions to do well, so no it's not just memorizing and rote learning. 

[lala1911]

I wouldnt say rote learning but its similar. You do need to apply knowledge, but not as extensively as you would in other subjects. Typical answers would include 80% rote and 20% apply IMO.

[ukface]

No, you need to fully grasp the content and be able to apply it to different situations and different types of questions to do well, so no it's not just memorizing and rote learning.

I wouldn't say that.

You get definitions to remember, and when things like management styles don't have definitions, you have several definitions to explain it. I reckon it's all just memorising stuff; don't need to understand anything really.

[EspoirTron]

I wouldn't say that.

You get definitions to remember, and when things like management styles don't have definitions, you have several definitions to explain it. I reckon it's all just memorising stuff; don't need to understand anything really.

Hmm I wouldn't say that. I think Business management, yes, has areas that you must wrote-learn concepts from. For example, definitions from areas such as P.O.L.C, the various KPIs, management skills and styles. However, despite this fact such wrote-learning is supposed to complement your understanding of the subject. Personally, if all a VCE subject was, was learning definitions and spitting it out on an exam, VCAA wouldn't really like that. Because seriously, anyone could learn the whole course in a month of two, and like a machine get 65/65 on the exam purely because they can learn definitions. The best indicator of how much this is not true is VCAA published examinations. The 10 mark questions involves close to no definition spitting and more application of your knowledge relating to a systematic process that a large-scale organisation may adopt during its conduction of business operations.


Let me for a second please relate this to other subjects such as chemistry, specifically organic chemistry and mathematics. I can sit there and read the book tirelessly on how a enzyme functions and interacts with a substrate, however, if I have no idea of how this is applied to unfamiliar molecules then I will be in midst of conundrum; that is, my wrote-learning has not helped me really, it has helped me learn one situation and knowing examinations one I wouldn't expect to be on there. Furthermore, let's say for Mathematics I wrote-learn the formulas for integrals, at the end of the day if I don't understand how to apply this knowledge, yet again I am in a conundrum.

So Business management is no different, you can learn definitions like you can formulas but if you can't apply it to new and unfamiliar situations then you're in a conundrum and this is what examinations will test. But the burning question is that if you wrote-learn definitions but cannot apply it to new and unfamiliar situations, have you actually learnt anything at all or have you just memorised something temporarily to regurgitate it in an exam or SAC? VCE should be about learning new things and taking these skills on with you for the rest of your education be tertiary or for education beyond.


P.S. 200th post, woo!

[ukface]

Hmm I wouldn't say that. I think Business management, yes, has areas that you must wrote-learn concepts from. For example, definitions from areas such as P.O.L.C, the various KPIs, management skills and styles. However, despite this fact such wrote-learning is supposed to complement your understanding of the subject. Personally, if all a VCE subject was, was learning definitions and spitting it out on an exam, VCAA wouldn't really like that. Because seriously, anyone could learn the whole course in a month of two, and like a machine get 65/65 on the exam purely because they can learn definitions. The best indicator of how much this is not true is VCAA published examinations. The 10 mark questions involves close to no definition spitting and more application of your knowledge relating to a systematic process that a large-scale organisation may adopt during its conduction of business operations.


Let me for a second please relate this to other subjects such as chemistry, specifically organic chemistry and mathematics. I can sit there and read the book tirelessly on how a enzyme functions and interacts with a substrate, however, if I have no idea of how this is applied to unfamiliar molecules then I will be in midst of conundrum; that is, my wrote-learning has not helped me really, it has helped me learn one situation and knowing examinations one I wouldn't expect to be on there. Furthermore, let's say for Mathematics I wrote-learn the formulas for integrals, at the end of the day if I don't understand how to apply this knowledge, yet again I am in a conundrum.

So Business management is no different, you can learn definitions like you can formulas but if you can't apply it to new and unfamiliar situations then you're in a conundrum and this is what examinations will test. But the burning question is that if you wrote-learn definitions but cannot apply it to new and unfamiliar situations, have you actually learnt anything at all or have you just memorised something temporarily to regurgitate it in an exam or SAC? VCE should be about learning new things and taking these skills on with you for the rest of your education be tertiary or for education beyond.


P.S. 200th post, woo!

That is what VCE should be like, but Business Management really isn't. From what I've learnt this year, I've been onto some past exams just to look around, and from everything I've learnt so far which goes to the extent of learning definitions, I could answer it all through ROTE.

For all my SACS, I have gotten up at about 3AM on the morning of the SAC I have, sat down for 3-4 hours and absolutely cram learned all the definitions I needed and with that lazy attitude, I've done pretty damn well. From that, I've been able to remember the majority of things I've crammed over the past 3 terms, and apply it into the exam. Apart from Change Management questions, I could easily answer all of it. You could have different SACS than my school does, but if you are able to remember definitions and something about those definitions, like applying it into context and a benefit, which basically comes along with a definition naturally, you're fine.

[sam.utute]

^This was unfortunately my experience as well.

Lots of memorising, not much else.

Economics is the complete opposite.