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A quiz can be a useful way of finding out whether it is likely that you have learned the things you are expected to know, understand and apply. However there are some limitations to the value of a quiz.
Firstly, a quiz cannot cover everything that you should have learned. The quizzes in this module consist of a fairly small number of questions, only sufficient to give an indication of how well (or otherwise) you are doing. This means that quizzes are only a diagnostic tool. If you score poorly, the diagnosis is that you have insufficient knowledge and understanding of the materials and you need to go back and work through them again. When going back over the materials you should keep in mind the difficulties you had in the quiz. For example, you may have found that you did not know all the special terminology used in legal studies. Or you may have found that you could not recall clearly enough the principles and rules that are laid down in legislation and cases. Such realisations will help you when you go back to the materials to work through them again.
The diagnostic value of a quiz diminishes rapidly if you do it more than once. This is because it is relatively easy to learn the answers to a small set of specific questions and so you will almost always do better on your second attempt, even if you have done no additional work on the materials. Learning the answers to a particular quiz is not going to help you when you do another, different test or exam. Be sensible and don't do a quiz until after you think you have studied the relevant materials sufficiently. Then do the quiz once, and reflect of what your score tells you. Then go back to the materials and work through them again until you have learned the things you need to know. This is the best way of making meaningful progress.
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