Is it safe to presume that questions from VCAA’s sample exam definitely won’t be repeated on the end-of-year?
Exact questions will most likely not be repeated - however, a sample exam is made as an indication, or practice paper, of the real final exam - thus, it's safe to assume that extremely similar questions or situations will come up in the end-of-year exam. Best to go over the sample exam as many times as you can.
This is a question I've had throughout the year but only now decided to ask.
Do we even need to know cases for Legal Studies?
Other than the Unit 4 High court, referendum and section 7 and 24 cases, the study design makes no mention of needing case studies for any of the other dot points.
If this is the case, why do teachers push for students to memorise a number of cases for other aspects of the study design?
Do examiners even expect us to mention cases in answers not relating to the ones specifically mentioned in the SD? Is it not possible to receive full marks without referring to a case?
And sorry, Lear, no-one's answered this so I'm just going to say my (speculative) view would be that cases act as decent examples to strengthen points we may make in an exam question. It may be difficult to be given full marks on a question that would be tied together with a case study - answers can seem kind of stilted without examples sometimes. I also use them to link specific points so that I can remember points that are referred to in the study design better. Sorry again that I have no sure answer, I've been waiting for meganrobyn to make a move haha
But my opinion is that we are being taught these cases for a reason - and that reason would, ultimately, be our end-of-year examination.
edit: why don't you ask your teacher about it? I'm sure they'd be happy to tell you, if not a little amused that this has been left for so long