National 5 Modern Studies 2018-2019

Most likely not because most people will be focusing on other exams but a teacher maybe could. Plus your right a lot of the questions asked are either new or have been reworded so its hard to judge what the sqa want you to say. Especially in crime I imagine there will be a lot of different responses

I think i will get my teacher to do go over it tomorrow, I will put his answers on here for yous x

Oof, I put in something about how knife crime/gang crime is a problem and underage drinking

oh jesus, I put that the rate of vandalism crime is high and the rate of dishonesty crime is high😭

Wow, that was difficult. Everyone I’ve spoken to seems to be in agreement so it’s hopefully not to be a huge source of concern.

I think the problem was that they

(a) asked really specific questions meaning you’re less likely to get an accurate representation of what you know on the topics. I could have cried tbh when I saw biological causes of crime, which we were told not to learn because the theories are rubbish and they never ask them.
(b) asked lots of difficult questions. Felt like more of them were those ‘stretch’ -type Q’s or as you say new ones (that one about how crime is an issue eg). Furthermore for me I wasn’t lucky in that none of the stuff I was most strong on with best exemplification for came up. At all. Dk if anyone else was the same.
(c) They seemed to reverse some of the questions I’d organised for. When I know why the Government’s response to crime IS effective, they ask why it isn’t [went with courts option here to be safe], then they ask why some groups in a world power are MORE LIKELY to participate when I only learned barriers to participation. My tactic was to sort-of switch around those answers with opposites, tho’ if this was at all helpful I don’t have a clue.

So yeah all in all I hated that, needed to pee real bad toward the end (actually really liberating btw) and am convinced the SQA do hate us.

I put mental health issues and alcohol/drug addictions, so pretty much the same.

i put drugs and alcohol and mental health issues aswell

Yay! There’s a wee group of us that did so fingers crossed we all get the marks!

I put medical disorders (e,g. ADHD) and low intelligence so RIP me... my teacher said it’s probably fine tho

Wow, that was difficult. Everyone I’ve spoken to seems to be in agreement so it’s hopefully not to be a huge source of concern.

I think the problem was that they

(a) asked really specific questions meaning you’re less likely to get an accurate representation of what you know on the topics. I could have cried tbh when I saw biological causes of crime, which we were told not to learn because the theories are rubbish and they never ask them.
(b) asked lots of difficult questions. Felt like more of them were those ‘stretch’ -type Q’s or as you say new ones (that one about how crime is an issue eg). Furthermore for me I wasn’t lucky in that none of the stuff I was most strong on with best exemplification for came up. At all. Dk if anyone else was the same.
(c) They seemed to reverse some of the questions I’d organised for. When I know why the Government’s response to crime IS effective, they ask why it isn’t [went with courts option here to be safe], then they ask why some groups in a world power are MORE LIKELY to participate when I only learned barriers to participation. My tactic was to sort-of switch around those answers with opposites, tho’ if this was at all helpful I don’t have a clue.

So yeah all in all I hated that, needed to pee real bad toward the end (actually really liberating btw) and am convinced the SQA do hate us.