Common Test
All Murder lectures should be in the KM document library, fyi. When revising, remember that theme and style should be interrelated (i.e. style serves to reinforce themes and themes explain certain stylistic structure choices). Group the information you have under various categories and remember, these categories are always interrelated. Create mindmaps and you find that all these various elements of the text are somewhat linked.
Your common test question tests you on whether you can pick the right links to discuss. Just because the question asks you on specific things doesn't mean that you can't talk about related things. Sometimes, it's all a matter of finding a way to phrase these related things so they will be relevant to the question. Break down the questions and look at related concepts and see if you can bring in these related concepts into discussion.
So, general pointers for common test answering:
1) READ QUESTIONS. BREAK DOWN KEY TERMS OF QUESTION. EXAMINE HOW QUESTION IS PHRASED. What is the question asking for? 'Discuss' and 'Examine' are interchangeable. 'Evaluate' asks you to assess the extent and degree of something, so you can't just put down something generic for your thesis in reply, e.g. "it's good" or "it's true". How good/true is it? Explain your judgment. You have to look at the key terms and find something to say about these terms.
2)GENERATE INFORMATION. Think about what you know about these terms and generate links on related concepts. See if you can bring these related concepts in.
2)FIND SOMETHING TO SAY ABOUT THESE KEY TERMS/ FIND THE ANSWER TO YOUR QUESTION. This will constitute your thesis statement/main thing that you are arguing.
3)PLOT YOUR POINTS/ TOPIC SENTENCES FOR PARAGRAPHS ACCORDING TO THIS THESIS STATEMENT. Your entire essay should be a systematic, detailed, well-supported, well-developed explanation of your thesis statement.
4) END OFF WITH A SATISFACTORY BANG (not a whimper). Finish off -- DO NOT REPEAT YOUR THESIS STATEMENT WORD FOR WORD -- with your thesis statement rephrased in a way that does not make it seem too curt or abrupt.
Your common test question tests you on whether you can pick the right links to discuss. Just because the question asks you on specific things doesn't mean that you can't talk about related things. Sometimes, it's all a matter of finding a way to phrase these related things so they will be relevant to the question. Break down the questions and look at related concepts and see if you can bring in these related concepts into discussion.
So, general pointers for common test answering:
1) READ QUESTIONS. BREAK DOWN KEY TERMS OF QUESTION. EXAMINE HOW QUESTION IS PHRASED. What is the question asking for? 'Discuss' and 'Examine' are interchangeable. 'Evaluate' asks you to assess the extent and degree of something, so you can't just put down something generic for your thesis in reply, e.g. "it's good" or "it's true". How good/true is it? Explain your judgment. You have to look at the key terms and find something to say about these terms.
2)GENERATE INFORMATION. Think about what you know about these terms and generate links on related concepts. See if you can bring these related concepts in.
2)FIND SOMETHING TO SAY ABOUT THESE KEY TERMS/ FIND THE ANSWER TO YOUR QUESTION. This will constitute your thesis statement/main thing that you are arguing.
3)PLOT YOUR POINTS/ TOPIC SENTENCES FOR PARAGRAPHS ACCORDING TO THIS THESIS STATEMENT. Your entire essay should be a systematic, detailed, well-supported, well-developed explanation of your thesis statement.
4) END OFF WITH A SATISFACTORY BANG (not a whimper). Finish off -- DO NOT REPEAT YOUR THESIS STATEMENT WORD FOR WORD -- with your thesis statement rephrased in a way that does not make it seem too curt or abrupt.
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