Life Orientation: Chapter 3: Study skills:
Unit 1: Reflect in the process of assessment and examination writing skills,
apply these skills and revise examination writing skills:
1.1 Process of assessment:
Assessment includes evaluation of your mind maps, role-plays, demonstrations, tasks,
quizzes, oral presentations, checklists, test, and examinations.
Not all assessments are formal or for marks. For example, informal assessments include
a short class test, a debate, an oral report, a role-play, a short homework task, or
observation of group work. Informal assessments can show you your strengths and
weaknesses, test your knowledge and skills, and motivate and encourage you.
Formal assessments are tasks, tests and exams for marks. It is important to keep track of
your formal assessments so that you know what you still need to learn, revise,
understand, and improve. These assessments are an opportunity to practice your exam
writing skills. Examples of formal assessment tasks:
Types of tasks: What you need to do: Examples:
Case studies: A real life Read carefully and understand the case A newspaper report on a
situation, current problem or study. Answer all questions. Give examples current issue.
incident. from own experiences. Interpret, analyze,
give advice, solve problems, and make
decisions.
Written reports: Written Gather information through, for example, A friend came to you for
evidence of a survey, analysis interviews, reading, consulting with an assistance with a specific
or investigation, contains sub- expert. Organize evidence. Draw relationship problem. Write
topics such as a summary, conclusions. Include reference to sources. a report on how you have
conclusion, and suggestions. assisted them and include all
the steps you have taken to
overcome the problem using
informed decision-making
and problem solving.
Written and oral Collect information on an issue. Gather Various routes available to
presentations: Oral visual aids. Prepare a speech or access the job market.
presentation with written presentation.
evidence in the form of text,
slides, a poster, pictures.
Project: Extend task, a long Read and write extensively. Investigate and Community project to
report-type essay with a cover find information through, for example, address one of the social or
page, table of contents, text interviews and observation. Prepare environmental issues.
divided into sections, pictures, questions for interviews. Collect data.
diagrams, graphs and
bibliography.
1.2 Revise own study skills, strategies and styles:
Study skills:
Flashcards: Flashcards are small cards or pieces of paper on which you write key points
and short bits of information. You can carry the cards around with you and revise.
Mind maps: Mind maps link information in a logical way that will help you to remember.
They break large pieces of information into smaller manageable sizes.
Unit 1: Reflect in the process of assessment and examination writing skills,
apply these skills and revise examination writing skills:
1.1 Process of assessment:
Assessment includes evaluation of your mind maps, role-plays, demonstrations, tasks,
quizzes, oral presentations, checklists, test, and examinations.
Not all assessments are formal or for marks. For example, informal assessments include
a short class test, a debate, an oral report, a role-play, a short homework task, or
observation of group work. Informal assessments can show you your strengths and
weaknesses, test your knowledge and skills, and motivate and encourage you.
Formal assessments are tasks, tests and exams for marks. It is important to keep track of
your formal assessments so that you know what you still need to learn, revise,
understand, and improve. These assessments are an opportunity to practice your exam
writing skills. Examples of formal assessment tasks:
Types of tasks: What you need to do: Examples:
Case studies: A real life Read carefully and understand the case A newspaper report on a
situation, current problem or study. Answer all questions. Give examples current issue.
incident. from own experiences. Interpret, analyze,
give advice, solve problems, and make
decisions.
Written reports: Written Gather information through, for example, A friend came to you for
evidence of a survey, analysis interviews, reading, consulting with an assistance with a specific
or investigation, contains sub- expert. Organize evidence. Draw relationship problem. Write
topics such as a summary, conclusions. Include reference to sources. a report on how you have
conclusion, and suggestions. assisted them and include all
the steps you have taken to
overcome the problem using
informed decision-making
and problem solving.
Written and oral Collect information on an issue. Gather Various routes available to
presentations: Oral visual aids. Prepare a speech or access the job market.
presentation with written presentation.
evidence in the form of text,
slides, a poster, pictures.
Project: Extend task, a long Read and write extensively. Investigate and Community project to
report-type essay with a cover find information through, for example, address one of the social or
page, table of contents, text interviews and observation. Prepare environmental issues.
divided into sections, pictures, questions for interviews. Collect data.
diagrams, graphs and
bibliography.
1.2 Revise own study skills, strategies and styles:
Study skills:
Flashcards: Flashcards are small cards or pieces of paper on which you write key points
and short bits of information. You can carry the cards around with you and revise.
Mind maps: Mind maps link information in a logical way that will help you to remember.
They break large pieces of information into smaller manageable sizes.
