Building an evidence bank that actually gets used
How to organise cases, legislation, sacred texts, media and statistics so the right evidence arrives when you need it under exam pressure.
Every student has a folder of evidence. Very few can retrieve the right piece under time pressure, because the folder is organised by where the evidence came from rather than by what it proves.
Organise by argument, not by source
Rebuild the bank around the judgements you are likely to make. Under a heading such as 'the law responds slowly to technological change', collect the legislation, the case, the media article and the law reform recommendation that all support that claim. Now the retrieval cue in the exam is the argument, which is exactly what the question gives you.
Keep each entry to three lines
- What it is, with the correct name and year
- What it shows, in one sentence you could write in an essay
- Which criterion or syllabus dot point it serves
A bank of thirty well written entries beats two hundred pages of collected articles. Review it weekly, and delete anything you have never used.
Apply it to your own work
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