Genral info.

Er, no! So far as I am aware, the ACCA instructions dictate that you use black ink, and it specifically specifies BLACK! Do we have a problem with this? Is your answer any different if you use black rather than blue? I believe that it’s a matter of scanning your answers to the marker and black is more clearly scanned than any other colour.

Presentation? There USED to be marks awarded for presentation, but you’re going quite a way back in history since those days! However!!!!! if your answers are presented in a clear, neat, understandable format, it makes it mush easier for the marker to see where you have approached problems in the structured, logical way and, even though you will make mistakes, it’s substantially easier for a marker to give you credit for points of principle correctly applied even though your figures may be incorrect. So….make your answers presentable

Cuting (cutting?) and overwriting (what’s overwriting?)?? Where your written answers (or computations overlap the pre-printed margin, there is the chance that your answer booklet may not be fully scanned so you run the risk of losing marks. Incidentally, how and why would you overlap your answers into the margin – it’s unthinkable!

How to manage time pressure? You’re an adult! You can read the time on a watch? So when your time allocation runs out, then STOP. It’s easy – just STOP. Then move on to the next question