Exam Preparation Tutorial

Preparing for the AAP ExamThursday 7 November

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Preparing for the AAP Exam Objectives

To be aware of the style of questions in AAP exams

To demonstrate the ability to answer short answer, video and essay questions from past exams

To allocate time to Sections A, B and C on the exam paper

Short answer and video question tips!

Identify one or two key words Look for any bold print

words/phrases Look for the Task word which tells you

what to do Time: spend about 4 minutes on each Where to start: wherever! Keep on track: use the words of the

question

Question Style: task words

Outline the classical geographer Ptolemy’s description of the Asia Pacific region.

Yamashita claims that Toraja funeral culture and practices have become commodified. What does he mean?

What is the relation between human values and human behaviour?

Question Style: scene setting You are the leader of a research team (4

people) which is planning to do research on tourism in Torajaland, indonesia. The Committee which allocates research funds has asked why you have applied for funds for training in the local Toraja language. The Committee notes that all of the team speak Indonesian, and wants to know why it is necessary for two researchers to be fluent in the Toraja language. Write down the points you would make to the committee.

Question Style: applying your knowledge

Nagata shows how costume can function as a way of making meaning in Malaysia. We can say that in this case costume is a signifying system. Name a signifying system which is part of your culture and indicate what meanings that system communicates. Your example may relate to costume, but could be about any other signifying system you wish to describe.

Question Style: interpretation

A religious teacher (imam) visiting Java, Indonesia in 2001 said “I see Islam all around me, but it still seems different.” What do you think he might have meant by this puzzling statement?

Short Answer Question Practice Module 2

What problems does Fox have with the revisions to the 1974 Memorandum of Agreement between Indonesia and Australia concerning fishing?

What positive suggestions has Fox made about better ways of regulating Indonesian fishing in Australia’s northern waters?

Short Answer Question Practice Module 5

When employed as consultants, expatriates sometimes feel uncomfortable in their new environment because a lot of communication practices seem strange and unfamiliar. To overcome these feelings, would you remind consultants of the old saying “When in Rome, do as the Romans do” (“When in X city, act like the natives of that city”) and recommend that they follow that saying? Justify your answer.

 

Short Answer Question Practice Module 5

Knowing that managers from different cultures have different values and practices, what kind of training do you think might be useful for Australian managers taking a consultancy in Indonesia? Justify your answer.

Short Answer Question Practice Module 5

In the Study Book, you have examined how humans use language and other forms of signification to make meaning. Select an example of non-verbal communication that is familiar to you (perhaps an example of costume, event, ritual, gesture) and describe what cultural meaning your example communicates.

 My example of non-verbal communication: [rule in two lines] (1 mark)

The cultural meaning of the non-verbal communication: [rule in 6 lines] (4 marks)

Short Answer Question Practice Module 5

How are values and behaviour linked? (2 marks)

If you examined a list of values of people from different cultures, is it likely that the lists would be the same? Justify your answer. (3 marks)

Short Answer Question Practice Module 5

What elements in the Toraja funeral ceremony that Yamashita observed make it clear that Sampe had turned his father’s funeral into a ‘spectacle for consumption by tourists’?

When Yamashita says that Toraja funeral culture and practices have become commodified, what does he mean? (2 marks).

 Give an example of the same process of commodification from your own culture. (3 marks)

Short Answer Question Practice Module 5

In her article “Modern Malay Women and the Message of the Veil”, Nagata argues that the tudung-style dress communicates meanings. What meanings does she link to the veil?

Judith Nagata titles her Reading “Modern Malay Women and the Message of the Veil.” What does she mean by that? Isn’t the veil just an article of clothing?

What are the class and education associations of the tudung-style dress according to Nagata?

Short Answer Question Practice Module 6

In Module 6 the authors made a decision to use the phrase “Coherence systems” rather than “religious traditions”. Why was the phrase coherence systems preferred over “religion”?

Welty claim that Hinduism “provides for people on every level to satisfy their diverse spiritual and intellectual capacities”. How does Hinduism do that? Justify your answer.

The Four Noble Truths are claimed to “cure the illness of the spirit”. What is the illness, and how do Buddhists believe the Truths cure the illness?

 

Short Answer Question Practice Module 6

Contrast the idea of god in Buddhism and Islam.

 Imagine you are a disciple of Siddartha Gautama. Walking away from Sarnath after Siddartha Gautama had just preached his first sermon, you overhear a woman say: “That man is a good speaker, but he is so pessimistic!” What do you think you might say to the woman to help her understand the Buddha’s teaching better?

Short Answer Question Practice Module 6

When Bowen writes about Islam in Java, he notes that Islam has a Javanese character. Is that a result of the work of individual reformers or what?

Since the events of September 11 in the USA, we have heard and read statements which suggest that Muslims everywhere, and that Islam, everywhere, is exactly the same. Use your knowledge of the reading by Bowen to say whether or not you agree with this generalisation about Islam we find in the media.

Short Answer Question Practice Module 7

What ethical problems have prompted the United States, the European Union and organisations such as the International Confederation of Free Trade Unions to demonstrate against tourism and investment in Burma?

Short Answer Question Practice Module 7

What does Sternberg mean when he says that tourism sells a “staged” experience?

What connections can you see between tourism in Torajaland (Yamashita) and what the Burmese government is doing to attract tourists to Burma?

 

Video Question Practice Below the Wind: describe the

relationship between the Sama Bajo and the sea.

Margaret Mead and Samoa: identify a scene which sum’s up Freeman’s criticisms of Mead’s work.

Essay Question PracticeMake sure ….!

Allocate 15 mins for planning and writing

Do a strong Introduction Write about 500 words for each essay Try to complete two essays to gain

maximum marks Prepare your essays in advance

Selecting your essay topics

Your essay has set you up well to write on one of the exam essay topics

There are essays set on modules 3, 4, 5, and 7 OR 8

Choose your other essay topic from the module you know best

Allocating time … Perusal: 10 minutes; reading but

no writing Part A: essays – allocate 2x30 mins Part B: short answers – allocate

about 40 mins Part C: videos – 20 mins