CSSA Legal Studies Paper Discussion!

[elysepopplewell]

Tell us what you thought!

We had a few people trying to predict questions in advance - do you think this paid off?

How did you go with your time management? In which order did you do the paper?

Importantly, do you think you'd change your study methods prior to the exam for HSC or were you really happy with how you prepared for this one?

Papers were required to be held until today (Thursday 17th) so we can now chat about the questions and the approaches we took. However, please do not share copies of the exam or anything similar!

[rodero]

The paper wasn't too bad honestly. I just think the short answer questions might have been a little iffy, especially since the 7 marker kind of benefit people who did a certain contemporary issue

[georgiia]

The paper wasn't too bad honestly. I just think the short answer questions might have been a little iffy, especially since the 7 marker kind of benefit people who did a certain contemporary issue

Yeah I agree about the 7marker, but otherwise it was pretty ok

[elysepopplewell]

In my opinion, the Crime question was a blessing, but I would have had to think carefully about the short answers!

Did you all think you prepared well?

[JD99]

I totally agree about the 7 marker...I had nooo idea how to fill two pages about that...............

Did anyone else struggle with a couple of the MC questions?? I went thru at the end and changed a couple of my answers...i hope it pays off coz usually when I change they end up being wrong anyways....

[JD99]

In my opinion, the Crime question was a blessing, but I would have had to think carefully about the short answers!

Did you all think you prepared well?

Yes it was!!

No.....i felt like most of the things i had prepared for weren't in there...
Hopefully they are in the HSC

[rodero]

Without getting too specific, how did you guys go about answering that 7 marker? I felt like I was bending the question a bit too much and trying to make my own contemporary issue fit

[fantasticbeasts3]

the crime question was a little broad, thank goodness, because i definitely wouldn't be able to write enough for a 15 marker. some of the multiple choice i had no idea what to choose so at least there's that 1 in 4 chance of getting it right because i guessed a lot 😂 the short answers, especially the 7 marker was a big wtf moment for me but the options were better :-) i don't think i'd change the way i studied for the hsc because i have a one week gap between exams then so i would have a lot more time to study.

[oliviamarie]

I owe my life to these forums for correctly predicting the crime and family option essay qs. Did a practice essay on them yesterday.

[elysepopplewell]

I owe my life to these forums for correctly predicting the crime and family option essay qs. Did a practice essay on them yesterday.

I'm so glad :')

[maria1999]

so essentially my school does family law and world order but we haven't learned world order yet so we needed to do both of the family law options and one was an actual joke. One of the legal teachers is a lawyer and said even she couldn't answer it. It just sucked because I had to sit there and answer both knowing that everything was soooo wrong. Multiple choice was also a little like trivia and really random. I hope other people went better hahaha

[TheFreeMarketeer]

Yeah I agree about the 7marker, but otherwise it was pretty ok

The seven marker was iffy. I didn't discuss the seven marker in relation to a contemporary issue, did we have to? I think I might've misread.

I knew going on that multiple choice was my weakest area. For past papers, it'd always be an area where I struggled and as the exam came, i would simply do past papers for the multiple choice.

I walked out and I know a got a couple wrong already but I do rush the multiple choice and don't put enough thought into it so, D: Besides that, and the seven marker, everything else went fairly well. I could've done better but oh well.

Essays went pretty well for me. Hopefully I maintain rank :S Glad it's over though.

[lucyjayne]

My teacher is so incredibly un creative and wrote our exam and it was exactly the same as a practice exam he gave us like almost identical, normally this would be good but now I feel like I'll have an unfair disadvantage in the HSC from not having any knowledge of the CSSA exams. Some people didn't get the practice exam too so now my class is angry lol.

[~BK~]

for me, the mc was def the worst
there was so many i didn't know and a lot were really specific...
overall, it was a bit of a struggle.... 

[Primallis]

The seven marker was iffy. I didn't discuss the seven marker in relation to a contemporary issue, did we have to? I think I might've misread.

No it just said with reference to the above extract and provide examples. It didn't explicitly state a contemporary issue so you would be fine to do so without the address of a contemporary issue. In the past HSC questions (2013 for example) there was a generic question like that.