Quoting on Exams?

[leenie]

Hi everybody! Regarding the 2010 History: Revolutions Exam - when to quote and not to quote?

There's a week left and I was told NOT to quote for AOS1 on both revolutions

And my Part 1 is Russia while my Part 2 is France

I was looking through the past exams of other years, and do the 'name 3-4 points' questions need to have quotes in them for AOS1? So should I only memorise quotes for AOS 2 for both revolutions?

[Spreadbury]

if a quote fits, I don't know why you wouldn't want to put it in. I would know quotes for both revolutions, they're great evidence and will probably boost your mark

[claire92]

I was told AOS rev 1 (america) don't quote, but mention all your nessasary points, AOS2, do quote, and then quote for AOS 1+2, ESPECIALLY 2! for rev 2.

[Spreadbury]

why shouldn't you quote for area of study 1?

EDIT: can quoting in AOS1 hurt our marks? besides the essay that would be where I quote the most...

[tdor]

I have heard for the revolution you do first AOS1 does not need quotes.
But thats because those are more statistical and fact questions, you have to understand events and causes

[claire92]

I was told that AOS is focusing more on progaganda, leaders, ideals and events, therefore historians really are not nessasary, however directly quoting a revoultionary such as 'James otis was well known for stating 'no taxation w/o representation'.... would not hurt.

[Kotza]

if you read last years assessment report, one of the AOS 1 comments state that:

"(quotes are) undesirable in this section."

However there is NOOOOOOOO way that quoting will prove to be detrimental to your marks.
Its basically saying, "oh here is a student which is demonstrating knowledge and providing evidence, i better mark him down."

haha it wont happen

[leenie]

if you read last years assessment report, one of the AOS 1 comments state that:

"(quotes are) undesirable in this section."

However there is NOOOOOOOO way that quoting will prove to be detrimental to your marks.
Its basically saying, "oh here is a student which is demonstrating knowledge and providing evidence, i better mark him down."

haha it wont happen

Really? Well I was reading through The Age and it said quoting is not necessary for AOS1 but like I see what you mean, they can't exactly mark you down for not quoting.

Anyway, thankyou everybody! Back to major QUOTE REMEMBERING this is horrible.

[Spreadbury]

I can see the value of quotes regarding certain questions, particularly questions about ideology or 'how did Lenin's policies create a revolutionary situation by 1917?' Also, it seems like solid evidence, everything else just seems like stating a fact, and seems lacking in basis. I answered a question about the February Revolution, and there's not many statistics that can prove the people were unhappy. To my knowledge no popularity poll was held during WWI.