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For the editorial exam on friday - do we have a choice of two questions per info-pack, so 4 questions in total?

I cant find the exam spec.

Cheers.

For the editorial exam on friday - do we have a choice of two questions per info-pack, so 4 questions in total?

I cant find the exam spec.

Cheers.

Yeah, that's right - 2 for each, 4 in total, you do 1.

Awesome. Do you have your packs yet?

I started looking @ the Grace Darling one - it's kinda boring.

Whats in the pack this year?

I did this exam 2 years ago.

Paradox: wrote:
> Awesome. Do you have your packs yet?
>
> I started looking @ the Grace Darling one - it's kinda boring.

Yeah, I got them last Friday - read them both all the way through but haven't made any notes or whatever.

They're both pretty boring, to be honest - but it's an exam, I wasn't really expecting to have the time of my life. And they seem to get longer and heavier everytime I pick them up.

Pro Evo wrote:
> Whats in the pack this year?
>
> I did this exam 2 years ago.

One pack is about the life of Grace Darling (saved some people from a boat wreck)

One is about Ibiza and its wildlife etc

The cowboy one was the best practise exam

You got cowboys? You bast.
We had ... spelling.

We got a few practises- The cowboys one was good and actually pretty interesting.

Also did one on spiders and one on a national park.

You going to make one of those tables for the inside cover?

We did the spiders one as well - would have liked something like that again here.

Tables suck - they don't help me at all.

The best thing I've found to do is get a load of different coloured highlighters and give each colour a topic - like in the Ibiza one, have one for the wildlife, one for the clubbing bit, problems with clubbing, history etc. Then just go through the whole book highlighting all the interesting bits on whichever topic.

Bit of advice - make an index for like key topics:

So like:

Clubbing - Text 1,7,8,9,15

Wildlife - text 2,3,4,10

Traditions - Text 5,6,11,12

(theyre made up by the way)

So if you get a question on wildlife you know where to turn to instead of flicking through looking for a colour.

I'm highlighting facts first (solid facts) then going to go through and find different audiences within each text and highlight them diff colours. So like Yellow for a mature/educated audience, blue for children, another for subject specific/jargon - seems more practical thay way.