9h - Analyse The Question And Think Logically
| Education : How To Excel In Exams Part III If you have a history exam, you may be asked what the strengths of a particular piece of source material are. Let's imagine, to show you the power of logical thinking, that you did not revise the topic and so have no idea what's going on. To be concrete in our example, let's say you are presented with an eyewitness account of the effects of pollution during the industrial revolution. The question reads 'discuss the strengths of this eyewitness account to historians studying the industrial revolution' You may have little idea of the topic, but the key point to hammer home again is that, by identifying the sort of things the examiner is looking for, you can have a good go. First it is an EYEWITNESS account, written by someone directly present at an event. So immediately we have a strength for the historian - the account will not have been distorted by chinese whispers and hence may be more reliable than a third party story. It is probably factually accurate, and if there are many similar accounts, it can be checked whether it is supported by these other sources. Perhaps the author is a known authority on the subject and wrote reliably on many other topics, and was an impartial observer and hence no bias was involved. Whether you know that to be the case or not, state it to show that you've been thinking. In ways like this, by reading the question, identifying what the examiner is looking for, you can ensure you gain many marks or do not lose marks that you deserve.
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