Thank for your answer, but how am I suppose to l ow fi annotations are good enough for sac preparation cause my aim is 80* on all my sacs that’s why I need very helpful tips and information... need answer for this
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I understand what you mean
it was something I had to figure out as I went along, personally.
One way that I navigated this, was taking on board what the teacher was telling me. I had a great teacher for psychology, and she always made sure that her class had been taught all the necessary information to be tested on. Of course, I know that not everyone gets the best teacher. And I also understand that not everything taught is always relevant! Or you might miss a class, or just zone out to what the teacher is saying for a few minutes and miss something important.
I struggled because I wanted to make sure I knew everything I needed to, but I also didn't want to learn anything that I didn't need to know. I know this sounds a bit silly, but I simply took everything the study design said to its fullest.
For example, I had a look at the biology study design and I've taken a dot point. I don't know any of the answers, but I will list the information that could be relevant from it.
"The distinction between photosynthetic autotrophs, chemosynthetic autotrophs and heterotrophs"
From this, I need to write notes on:
-what does the "troph/autotroph" aspect mean, as it clearly links the three main things together?
-what are autotrophs? (you will likely need to go into more information here, i.e. function, key facts, etc.)
-what are chemosynthetic autotrophs? (Same as bracket above)
-what are heterotrophs? (Same as bracket above)
-what is "distinctive" about each of the above? List 1-3 things that make each different from the other
-list 1-3 things that are similar, as this will also help your understanding.
-how do they interact with one another? As in, what roles do they each play within the environment? How are these the same? How are these different?
Also, if you can, turn the whole dot point into a question and use the information you have written around it to answer it. Using the same dot point as above: What is the distinction between photosynthetic autotrophs, chemosynthetic autotrophs and heterotrophs?
Honestly, just pick each word out, getting rid of thing like "the" or "and", and ask yourself some questions, write down what you find out and then as you go along, you can come back and put down more.
The most important thing is being able to look at the dot point and understand what it wants from you. If you can identify and sprout of information about the key words in the dot point and confidently answer what it means and how it all fits together with the rest of the topic, linking it to other dot points, then you know you have understood it, and therefore, it should be good enough SAC preparation.
Keep in mind, you will likely have practice SACs! If you score below what you were expecting on practice SACs, then you know you need to revisit your notes and you can deduce that you either didn't retain the information, you have gaps in your knowledge/understanding, something else, or a combination. When that happens, you still have time before your SAC to figure that out and rectify it! It's so much easier to figure out where you went wrong in a practice SAC if you literally have all your notes condensed down to a page!
And again, understanding is better than knowing! It's unlikely that you'll be able to know absolutely everything that they list on the study design, but if you understand how the points under the AOS's interact, you don't need to know every point as you should be able to make an educated guess.