National 5 Exam date: Wednesday 27th May 9am
The exam is now nearly here, but don’t panic! You can use the below helpsheets and revision notes to help you prepare.
Presentation on the exam from class: Exams!
Not sure what your answers should look like?
Visit the SQA Understanding Standards to have a look at answers from last year’s paper and to see comments from the markers for each:
Enquiry Skills Questions
Access the booklets for each of the enquiry skills questions with a ‘how to answer’ and sample questions below.
Decision-Making Question booklet
Knowledge and Understanding Questions
You will need to answer ‘recall’ questions on information from each of the three units we have studied. You should use the notes in your red jotter and the checklists from class to help you prepare short revision notes that you will be able to answer each question from.
BBC Bitesize has a useful summary of each unit that you could use to fill any gaps in your notes: http://www.bbc.co.uk/education/subjects/zxsnb9q
The below revision notes should help get you started:
1. Political Issues: Democracy in Scotland
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2. Social Issues: Crime and Law
**** new******Crime and Law Revision Notes
3. International Issues: World Power – USA
**** new******USA Social and Economic Inequalities Revision
Revise the USA political system with Smart Songs:
Most importantly…… DON’T PANIC!
Assignment
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As discussed in class you need to put your source evidence onto a template sheet.
You can download the template sheet here: National5ModernStudiesAssignmentResearchSheet
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If you are stuck with writing up your assignment you should go back through the presentation to get some ideas of how to structure it:
Class ppt on how to write up your report: MS_N5_Presentation
Useful articles:
YouGov on Race Relations in USA: https://today.yougov.com/news/2015/01/19/bad-year-race-relations/
Public opinion on new police tactics: https://yougov.co.uk/news/2012/03/20/new-police-tactics/
YouGov on arming the police: https://yougov.co.uk/news/2012/09/20/police-murders-what-next/
Mexican Gangs and USA immigration: http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2014/07/140723-immigration-minors-honduras-gang-violence-central-America/
http://www.npr.org/2014/07/09/329848538/whats-causing-the-latest-immigration-crisis-a-brief-explainer
http://www.pbs.org/newshour/updates/country-lost-kids/
