Higher Modern Studies Thread 2010

I'm good with USA and Voting Systems. Alright with Devolved Decision Making but absolutely crap on Health & Wealth.

Anyone got any ideas (intelligent guesses, teacher recommendations ..) on what may come up under Health & Wealth?

Does anyone have any tips for the report. I always get 13/20

You don't seem to be doing anything wrong as I can see format wise. You didn't make it clear but you have to link your criticisms directly with you rebuttals. So for each point you make against your proposal, you should provide a reason with statistics to why you rejected this criticism.

No one can help you too much unless you were to post an example essay (?).

the 13/20 was someone elses post i quoted it wrong lol, i was giving a rough idea to them on how to do it

plus you dont need a rebuttal for all points, just one is fine

Hello (:
For the voting systems, what systems have you learnt the advantages and disadvantages of? Is it just FPTP, AMS and STV? Or should I learn the others such as AVS and Regional Party List (we got notes on these)?
Thanks (:

FPTP

PR systems;

Party List
AMS (PL + FPTP)
STV

Ah, I see.

One rebuttal? You sure about that?

Your arguments and rebuttals are what form the main body of the essay and the general source for all your marks. You can't give a criticism without saying why you rejected it in favour of whatever it is you are supporting, otherwise your judgement on the matter is brought into question.

If each argument (backed by statistics) gives you 2 marks, each argument against will give you 2 marks and each rebuttal will give you an extra 2 marks.

4 arguments for + 2 arguments against + 2 rebuttals = 16 marks with some left to spare for the conclusion and use of BK.

Thanks

if you use a report style layout and use ALL sources you're meant to get about 14 makrs then it goes up as you add recall.

Is anybody going to mention the 2010 election in their exam?

Most of what happened in this months election seems to directly contradict some of the advantages of First Past the Post.

For H+W, my teacher said maybe the inequalities or govt policies to reduce health inequalities. Could also be gender or race though as they've never asked them individually. But we all know what the SQA are like and could ask anything, even if they asked it 1/2 years ago

Nice to see you posting again btw Ape

I thought if you didn't mention it you were basically making yourself get a lower grade haha, we were told if you talk about the 2010 election you will get highly marked. Like you can say how FPTP will usually produce a strong parliament or whatever, however, this has been proven to be untrue as in the 2010 general election... etc

I despise that whole section. What section is your strong point? (Don't say all them )

Strong point is probably China don't think you do that?

What do you think will come up for USA?

Nope, we did all the boring stuff.

USA was exciting though. Immigration I would think. I used to be very good at immigration but the revision material for it is lacking in the education materials I use to revise.

I hope it's immigration.

Using a report style and using all the sources doesn't mean you get 14 marks surely, that's way too high?

If you write something extremely basic but relevant to the sources and use all the sources with a few pieces of BK you will get a basic 10.
Using A LOT of BK, synthesizing (sp?) your sources, for example, start of your argument with something from source A, put in some BK, some stats for C2 to back that up, some more BK, to stats from C1, back to source A, etc will get you higher marks. Obviously using a report style and role play will get you an A hopefully, for example "Minister, I strongly urge you implement this proposal immediately.." etc

The layout I use is:

Memorandum

To: Minister of Health etc
From: Your name, Your role
Subject: What it's about, eg. Free prescription Charges
Date: 22/05/2010

Introduction - briefly explain you've been appointed a role and briefly explain the proposal

Recommendation - state if they should reject/implement the proposal

Arguments for my recommendation - about 3 bullet point headings
Argument 1 - discuss it in depth
Argument 2
Argument 3

Arguments against my recommendation and rebuttal - about 3 bullet point headings
Argument 1 - briefly say what opposers might do than go to your 'However, it is evident ..' and totally destroy what opposers would say with evidence against it and do that for another 2 arguments.

Conclusion - sum it all up, stating your recommendation again.

i suppose 14 does seem a lot but thats what ive been told from a few teachers so im not sure. i would say your 3 and 3 points seems quite a lot in the time given though for them to be as detailed as you make them with a rebuttal for each point.
Do you generally manage the DME in the time given along with the questions