Advise on Time allocation for new exam format

I would suggest that you allocate your time as follows:

For Section A: 54 minutes
For Section B: 54 minutes
For each question ins Section C: 36 minutes

For Paper F5, there is not much need to do any planning first, and so I would get straight on with Section A after having just a quick look through the papers.
Also, save 5 minutes just before the exam finishes to go through and guess any MCQ’s that you either could not do or did not have time to do. You must hand in answers to every MCQ, because even several of them are just guesses you will probably get some of those right, and even just 1 of them being right makes a huge difference if you would otherwise have failed on 49!

For the two questions in Section C make sure you do something for each part of the equation. You might get stuck and not be able to finish, but you can always do something for each part, and doing almost anything will get marks. For the calculation parts, the marks are for the workings (not for the final answer) and so each bit of the workings you do will get marks (as long as it is neat and the marker can follow it). For the written parts, always write something – however little – because almost anything will get a mark if it is at all sensible. You must attempt every part of both questions – that does not mean finish then (you might not be able to) but you must do something for each part.

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As I wrote earlier, save 5 minutes of the extra 15 minutes for the end of the exam to make sure you have guessed any remaining MCQ’s.

The remaining extra 10 minutes gives you a bit of spare time because you are bound to over-run in places. Yes you can start writing immediately which is why I suggest get straight on with Section A.

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