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Hi Mike,
I am one of the ones that run out of time lol. It was a very fair paper and had covered all that came up. But i left out 25 marks ..?
I just didn’t know when to stop writing.
Do you have any lectures on allocating time , i have seen your previous post but need some more help applying this. If possible could you give an example using a question in todays paper.
Thanks In advance.
You really, really, really do not need a lecture!
All you need to do is:
– plan your answer properly
– write sentences that are no more than 3 lines long and which …
– … contain no more than just 1 markable point
What you should now do is practice writing sentences where you can express a point fully in no more than 1 minute 27 seconds
I say “plan properly”
Number of marks in a (part) question say 10
Divide by 2 = 5
Five is the number of minutes you should spend rading, thinking and planning what you are going to write
10 marks = 19.5 minutes in the exam
You’ve just spent 5 on that 19.5 planning so now you have just 14.5 minutes ;eft to write out your answer
And that equals just 1.45 minutes per mark
How much can you physically (and legibly) write in 1.45 minutes (that’s one minute 27 seconds in old money)?
3 lines (probably not more than three)
And that’s the MAXIMUM length of any one sentence, one paragraph, one point in an exam answer
It is SO SIMPLE!
Try it! Get a friend to say “Start” and then “Stop” after 1 minute 27 seconds whilst you copy text from a source document. Any source document … washing machine instructions, data protection notification, procedures manual from work place … it doesn’t matter
That way there is no chance that you walk out of an exam room after 3 hours 15 minutes complaining that you ran out of time. It’s impossible to run out of time. It can’t happen!
And it all boils down to discipline
OK?
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