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What's the best way to prepare for an economics test?
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Re: economics questions
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Re: economics questions
Hopefully before a test you should have already had:
- Detailed topic notes
- A series of memorisation techniques to keep all the glorious lists of reasons, effects, and causes that the syllabus requires you to know
- A number of practice essays that you've done to ensure that you are comfortable weaving the content of the syllabus into coherent responses to short answer questions and essays
If you are preparing from scratch then review (which is NOT a good position to be in):
- Key point summaries that find themselves at the end of each chapter of the main textbooks (incl. Riley) - make notes from these
- Study in detail "high probability topics" that are commonly assessed (e.g. policy responses to specific economic issues)
- Do as many past papers as you can (if you find yourself stretched for time, do ONLY questions that you are NOT confident you can answer and write essay plans instead of whole essays)
- As the poster above mentioned, memorise some important stats (inflation, economic growth, unemployment, net foreign debt etc. over time periods for year 12, in year 11 this may include things like the interest rate, key budget statistics) to throw into your essay
Hopefully before a test you should have already had:
- Detailed topic notes
- A series of memorisation techniques to keep all the glorious lists of reasons, effects, and causes that the syllabus requires you to know
- A number of practice essays that you've done to ensure that you are comfortable weaving the content of the syllabus into coherent responses to short answer questions and essays
If you are preparing from scratch then review (which is NOT a good position to be in):
- Key point summaries that find themselves at the end of each chapter of the main textbooks (incl. Riley) - make notes from these
- Study in detail "high probability topics" that are commonly assessed (e.g. policy responses to specific economic issues)
- Do as many past papers as you can (if you find yourself stretched for time, do ONLY questions that you are NOT confident you can answer and write essay plans instead of whole essays)
- As the poster above mentioned, memorise some important stats (inflation, economic growth, unemployment, net foreign debt etc. over time periods for year 12, in year 11 this may include things like the interest rate, key budget statistics) to throw into your essay
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Re: economics questions
Will a basic understanding suffice?
How hard will it be to get 50%?Hopefully before a test you should have already had:
- Detailed topic notes
- A series of memorisation techniques to keep all the glorious lists of reasons, effects, and causes that the syllabus requires you to know
- A number of practice essays that you've done to ensure that you are comfortable weaving the content of the syllabus into coherent responses to short answer questions and essays
If you are preparing from scratch then review (which is NOT a good position to be in):
- Key point summaries that find themselves at the end of each chapter of the main textbooks (incl. Riley) - make notes from these
- Study in detail "high probability topics" that are commonly assessed (e.g. policy responses to specific economic issues)
- Do as many past papers as you can (if you find yourself stretched for time, do ONLY questions that you are NOT confident you can answer and write essay plans instead of whole essays)
- As the poster above mentioned, memorise some important stats (inflation, economic growth, unemployment, net foreign debt etc. over time periods for year 12, in year 11 this may include things like the interest rate, key budget statistics) to throw into your essay
Will a basic understanding suffice?
acehsccoaching
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Re: economics questions
50% is a very low bar so probably yes. A rudimentary understanding of the essay topics and regurgitating a few paragraphs from the textbook will likely get you 50% for the essay. Generally a Band 2-3 response for a short answer question is very "high level" and just includes a correct answer without any explanation.
50% is a very low bar so probably yes. A rudimentary understanding of the essay topics and regurgitating a few paragraphs from the textbook will likely get you 50% for the essay. Generally a Band 2-3 response for a short answer question is very "high level" and just includes a correct answer without any explanation.