Questions about Legal Studies? (1 Viewer)

[Protract]

What are tips to writing a band 6 essay? I know about reffering to past cases. legislations, and media reports, but I don't know what a media report is or how to find it?

What kind of assignments would they give, besides essays? Like, give examples of some of the assignments you were handed.

Is the theory easy to remember?

 

[Shadowdude]

A media report is like newspaper reports.

Tips to writing a Band 6 essay is to answer the question with heavy reference to cases, legislation and the like.


Theory is mostly easy to remember, I found. Just the cases and legislation which is difficult.

 

[Protract]

What's "the like?"

 

[Shadowdude]

Media reports.

 

[muhahahahahaha]

yes, shadowdude is right. I got 91 for my trials and I had to refer a lot to legislation, cases and media reports.
At school, we were also heavily marked on the flow of the essay. They mark you on a certain flair that your essay may have + structure.
They dont like students who waffle on about the topic. They like point, support using case + legislation, reference to contep issues.
Intro is very important. At my school, some students got marked down because their intro was too descriptive. It should be an overview...NOT an essay in itself.
Of you have a look at the structure of the HSC exam, they ask you 15 multiple choice questions, a few short answers (that's the law and society topic), then they give you a section solely on crime where you have to answer a series of short answer-medium answer questions.
Finally, you have the 2 options essays.
At school, we had an assessment for crime that was set out exactly like the hsc question and then we had 2 other assessments that were essays.
Hope this helps

 

[clry]

yes, shadowdude is right. I got 91 for my trials and I had to refer a lot to legislation, cases and media reports.
At school, we were also heavily marked on the flow of the essay. They mark you on a certain flair that your essay may have + structure.
They dont like students who waffle on about the topic. They like point, support using case + legislation, reference to contep issues.
Intro is very important. At my school, some students got marked down because their intro was too descriptive. It should be an overview...NOT an essay in itself.
Of you have a look at the structure of the HSC exam, they ask you 15 multiple choice questions, a few short answers (that's the law and society topic), then they give you a section solely on crime where you have to answer a series of short answer-medium answer questions.
Finally, you have the 2 options essays.
At school, we had an assessment for crime that was set out exactly like the hsc question and then we had 2 other assessments that were essays.
Hope this helps

HSC structure for legal has changed this year though;
We now have 15 crime MC questions, 5 on human rights. Then short answer on HR, followed by a '600 word' essay on crime (aim for 1000+ if you want the marks), followed by the consumer and family essays. MAKE SURE YOU MAKE REFERENCE TO THE CONTEMP ISSUES!!

 

[muhahahahahaha]

i wish our hsc was structured like that last year...this beats last year's structure..the whole short-medium answer questions on crime was absolute hell...writing an essay for crime would be easier.
In any humanities subject you should refer to contemp issues.
The family and consumer essays do not change that much in terms of what they are asking for.
In legal studies the 2 main questions to ask yourself are:
1) how has the law changed over the years to adapt to our rapidly changing society?
2) how does the law (in any area e.g. family, consumers...) aim to protect the various members of society? legislation + examples.
If you can do this well, then you can get a great mark in LS. BTW...markers like students who can properly use legal jargon in their essays. It really pulls up the standard of your essay.