You’ve finished the course now. But before you go, let’s do revision and a final exam!

Revision Points

To do well in your exams, remember to identify the requirement, break things down into parts if need be and then solve! These are time-based exams, however, during preparation, it’s critical that you spend a lot of time thinking through the questions to deepen your understanding of parts of argument and how to work through information.

In terms of exam strategy, remember to identify whether you can answer the question quickly, if not, move on and then revisit to solve. With tests that are online, assessors can use data to make a judgement call as to whether someone guesses an answer, but as long as you are not penalised for ‘guessing’, we do recommend that you do not leave questions unanswered at the end.

This strategy will help you move through quickly but also help with getting a higher quantity of questions correct.

Overarching points to remember for each of the checkpoints are:

• Assumptions – Identify these ‘weakness’ points as they are beliefs held without proof.
• Principles & 1st Principles Thinking – They’re fundamental ‘assumptions’ or rules and can also be a point of weakness if not abided by or abided by in a faulty way. 1st principles thinking helps break down a problem to identify where an improvement, if any, can be made.
• Weakest / Strongest Argument – Identify the argument and then look at evidence that adds to (supports and therefore strengthens) or breaks down, negates or makes the argument irrelevant (in the case of weakening an argument).
• Parallel Reasoning – Match up the ordering from one subject to another and set up ordering in symbol format to make it easier to understand the structure.
• Flaws in Arguments – There are a range of flaws from mistaken analogies, incorrect assumptions, lack of evidence and more! And to pick up flaws, remember to think about what is being said or claimed, break down the argument into parts and then find out what can be disputed.
• Conclusions – Finding a suitable conclusion requires you to consider what’s broad, narrow and just right in ‘wrapping’ up the paragraph.
• Outliers – Interesting in that outliers can be ‘mistakes’ and/or can be valuable pieces of information. Either way, they can impact conclusions so it’s important they are identified.
• Figurative Language – Break down parts and look at how they can be associated and decide whether the scope of application can be broad or narrow.
• Comedic Devices – Various types of comedic devices can be used and the main ones to recognise are irony, sarcasm, parody and incongruities. Breaking down visual elements and text will help you recognise comedic devices.
• Thinking About Data (General) – Data is about context and understanding the essential parts of data (background, title, axis), the types of depictions (tabular, chart, visual) can help you better understand information. A systematic process e.g., context, high-level and then in-detail can help you find the exam question requirement more quickly.
• Thinking About Data in Tables (How to Analyse & Interpret) – Usually have values that require two parts (row and column).
• Thinking About Data in Bar Charts (How to Analyse & Interpret) – These depict information visually and are like a ‘tally’. Bar charts provide values given two sides (x and y axis).
• Thinking About Data in Line Charts (How to Analyse & Interpret) – These depict information visually and are generally used to show trends over time. They also have values for usually two sides (x and y axis).
• Thinking About Data in Pie Charts & Combined Graphs (How to Analyse & Interpret) – Combined graphs usually compare multiple sets of information in one chart and usually have more than two axes (a right axis also sometimes appears as well!). Pie charts are used generally to show ‘division’.
• Graph Trends – Orientation of axis and directional understanding is key here in getting these questions correct (upward trend, downward trend, constant).
• Views, Perspectives and Nets – Familiarisation with nets and different views of perspective can help you orientate and aid in recognition when you get these questions in your exam.

Final Exam

The final exam contains a full-length multiple choice set of questions. Your time limit: 40 minutes. Number of questions: 40.

Click on the button below and start your final set of questions. We recommend doing timed mode first to get the experience of a timed exam, and then, when you're ready, do untimed mode and work through understanding questions thoroughly.

Every question has two solutions videos after you complete the question. The first is a quick 60 second video that shows you how our expert answers the question quickly. The second video is a more in-depth 5-steps or less explainer video that shows you the steps to take to answer the question. It's really important that you review the second video because that's where you'll learn additional tips and tricks.

Once you're done with the final set of question, you’ve finished!

It’s been a journey and well done and congratulations!

We wish you all the best for your upcoming exam and will be cheering you on!!

If you have news you’d like to share – we would love to hear about it, get in touch anytime at success@examsuccess.com.au.

Now, let’s get started on your final set of questions.