hi all,
i have a really bad teacher for eco and he doesn't teach anything - i don't learn in class and for prelims, i had to teach myself the content! Do you guys have any advice for learning the year 12 content, and how difficult would it be for me to teach myself at this point in the hsc year?
thanks!
Hi Emily,
Sorry for the delayed response!
Well done on learning the preliminary content, I know it is a little bit tricky to get your head around.
It is quite a usual to need to teach yourself parts of the course, I am sure that your teacher does not intend to not teach you. Have you tried to identify what exactly it is about his teaching that you aren't resonating with? If you brought this up with the teacher I am sure that he would be happy to fix it. I know that for my business studies class I told the teacher that spending too much time on just explaining definitions wasn't really beneficial and we could do more discussions about the broader issues and she took that criticism on board.
If this doesnt work, definitely talk to other teachers in that faculty or at your school.
There are also a heap of other resources out there for you, this forum for example is great for asking questions, answering questions (this really helped me during my HSC), getting essays marked etc. As well as that, there are a plethora of paid and unpaid resources including review questions/notes/tutoring services etc. that you just need to look out for.
If you are going at this alone, definitely your textbook is your bible! read that inside and out and make sure you understand all the dot points, especially the definitions for something like economics. I would also try to test yourself and try to use the content as much as possible --> i.e. doing practice questions, past papers or answering questions on the forum. ANything like this which makes you think about the content come up with an answer is great practice.
I really hope that this doesn't affect your year 12 experience and that you do pull through!
Good luck!
I have an economics assignment due soon and its on comparing the australian economy and one other asian economy. Its a presentation 3-4 mins. In my speech i was wondering whether or not i should start with a definition for each subslide like economic growth, quality of life, etc?
Hey Mani,
It really depends on what the marking criteria is, the question etc.
3/4 mins is not really much time - however i would definitely suggest having a definition for the
key concepts - not for all of them.
I would suggest looking at the marking criteria and making sure you're addressing all those points in your presentation, that is gonna get you more marks than whether or not you have a defintion!
Hope this helps,
Isaac