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Top Tips⚖️Engage in Class - ask questions, get feedback and not only contribute to class discusion but create them - ask about current cases or past cases or how the topic you are learning applies to real life
⚖️Apply to real life - this will solidify your understanding of all aspects of the legal system including appeals, mitigating/aggravating factors, benefits and limitations of jury trials. Continuously exposing yourself to the media about cases will not only benefit your understanding but also the language you use when discussing and analysing cases.
⚖️Make sure you know your instruction words! These are so so key in Legal Studies - for short answer questions you can use the acronym SEE -
S – Make a statement
E – Explain that statement further
E – Provide an example to qualify your statement if at all possible.
And for more in-depth questions;
1. Identify the task words, like describe, evaluate, or analyse.
2. Look for focus words which may limit or help refine your response, like ‘other than… method x’, ‘always… better.’
3. Determine how many parts there are to a question. Higher marked questions usually require students to answer multiple parts.
4. Use the layout of your question to structure your response. You should always start with the first part of the question posed.
5. Use the keywords from the question in your response. For example, ‘significance…’ or ‘difference’
6: Signpost your response. For example, if asked to evaluate the jury system you should begin with something like; ‘One strength of the jury system is…’
⚖️Teach each other! Form a study group of 3 - 4 people and each week allocate a topic, over the course of the week you need to become an ‘expert’ on the topic and create notes on your topic. At the end of the week, you teach each other - you will not only gain more in-depth knowledge on 4 topics in less time than if you did it yourself you also get 4 sets of topic notes!
⚖️Do practice questions continually throughout the year - it is likley your teachers will structure the SAC’s similar to the exam so you will require the ability to answer short answer and extended response questions that could range from 1 mark to 11 marks! So it is crucial you develop and improve your clarity of writing and consolidate your knowledge. Practice questions also allow you to see your areas of weakness
⚖️Use the study design - make sure you have notes/knowledge of each dot point in there as well as the SKILLS. Many students focus on the content but ignore the ‘Key Skills’ which you can be examined on.
⚖️Cue cards/palm cards/revision cards - easy to take around with you and allows you to memorise key terminology and legislation. If it works for you you can even put easy practice questions on there
⚖️EVIDENCE - Just like English you should have evidence to support what you say, a great piece of evidence is relevant legislation, if you KNOW the legislation you have nothing to lose by including it
Legal Studies Resources The Legal Studies GuyThis guy covers everything just like Edrolo, but with bad audio quality - a great wat to consolidate your knowledge
Free VCE Notes - Legal Studies Jigsaw’s Legal Guide VCE Legal Studies Practice Questions - Elevate Education And as said previously, if you would like to contribute either via giving tips and or resources feel free to reply to a post or PM me and I’ll add it in with a nice little mention. If you think I should have other subjects, or would like to regularly contribute let me know and we’ll work something out
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