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Studying for the SAC HSC exam
Blissfulmelodii:
--- Quote from: jozzl on October 16, 2016, 11:52:01 am ---I feel you! I'm really struggling to do something besides past papers and revision of the same thing over and over. But my topics aren't frequently mentioned in past papers, their all new so its very hard to find a way to study? Could anyone assist?
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I know what you mean. One of my topics is Social Inclusion and Exclusion which literally only has last years question to look at but after speaking to my teacher and informing her about how confused I was with the syllabus she actually sat with me and deconstructed the syllabus points with me. It really helped and made making notes that little bit easier. I would really recommend going into school on a day where you don't have an exam (or even before/after an exam i guess) and see if your teacher could do the same with you. What are your topics by the way?
I realised one of the things that was confusing me was that i had this idea that a case study came under a certain dotpoint which is why i was struggling but then my teacher informed me that you can have various case studies for various dot points and it is okay to repeat statistical data for different dot points because as a whole a topic is about how well you have understood the concepts and how you are able to relate that knowledge to current and real life examples.
Essentially look at the nature and principles of your topics and link facts and statistics to those points.
Hope that helps!
jozzl:
--- Quote from: Blissfulmelodii on October 17, 2016, 11:46:42 am ---deconstructed the syllabus points with me. It really helped and made making notes that little bit easier. I would really recommend going into school on a day where you don't have an exam (or even before/after an exam i guess) and see if your teacher could do the same with you. What are your topics by the way?
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Oh yeah I understand!
On the final days of school my teacher actually went through every topic we did and broke the dot points down into mindmaps, I think I may copy those out again in mindmap form and then again in paper form.
my topics are: Egyptian Revolution for continuity and Change, Animation for Pop Culture and Non- conformity and Conformity with the case study of Survivalists.
Now conformity doesn't have any past papers as the topic was drastically altered to be able to be taught again because of its content. As the girl who just finished prelim mentioned, I have loads of worksheets my teacher has given me to go over the dot points and its not that Im worried I cant do the questions its worried that I wont include as much content as I desire. All my marks have been sitting on you're almost there every time. I haven't started studying quiet extensively for it yet as its my second last exam and I have 3 before then but I think its just remembering names, dates etc. Do you have any tips for that?
Blissfulmelodii:
--- Quote from: jozzl on October 17, 2016, 08:54:15 pm ---Now conformity doesn't have any past papers as the topic was drastically altered to be able to be taught again because of its content. As the girl who just finished prelim mentioned, I have loads of worksheets my teacher has given me to go over the dot points and its not that Im worried I cant do the questions its worried that I wont include as much content as I desire. All my marks have been sitting on you're almost there every time. I haven't started studying quiet extensively for it yet as its my second last exam and I have 3 before then but I think its just remembering names, dates etc. Do you have any tips for that?
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Ah okay, I get what you mean. That's a stress i myself have before going into any SAC exam. What has worked for me in the past and something I am doing to prepare for the HSC exam is to actually pull the case studies out and make a little fact sheet and then turn it into flashcards. Then on the flash cards you would have really short and sweet statistics that can easily trigger an idea. For example my case study for continuity and change is the Flint water crisis so I would have a flashcard dedicated to that and just list short statistics like how much money was spent, 60% of population a minority and 40% living under poverty line etc and then have some quotes from media, individuals, groups, instituions and so on. The key idea is to summarise it all as much as you can so that during the exam all it takes is a word or phrase to trigger all your knowledge. This has always worked for me so I hope it makes sense! haha
Oh and don't forget to always reference where you pulled the statistic from! Nothing worse then nailing your quote perfectly but then getting pulled up with a question mark and your marker asking where you got it from (it happened to me during prelims and I have never let it happen again).
kawther:
Hey Guys,
Just in regards to the dot point "outline how change is a complex process", what are we supposed to know?
Thank youu
Blissfulmelodii:
--- Quote from: kawther on October 19, 2016, 11:16:27 am ---Hey Guys,
Just in regards to the dot point "outline how change is a complex process", what are we supposed to know?
Thank youu
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I'm currently on my way home from an exam so let me check my notes when I arrive and I'll answer your question, if no one else does before that haha
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