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- June 8, 2018 at 8:48 pm
Paper based exam
Sec C (3 marks)
Does anyone remember if the two ppl were uk resident or non uk resident ?
I wrote both of them are not resident
Now I feel it’s wrong
I overlooked at the question ! Pls replyJune 8, 2018 at 8:53 pm@janetf said:
Bit of a general question I know but can anyone explain how seeded questions work? Are there 5 questions which are consistent across all the exams for them to assess quality control as everyone now does broadly different mcq. How do they assess it? Have heard a few conspiracy theories which I think are a bit suspect and do not believe, so would appreciate a plain English answer. Thanks in advance.Seeded questions are added to the exam for quality assurance purposes. For F5-F9 papers, additional 10 marks seeded questions are added in the exam. This can be done via an extra OT Case in Section B (like earlier attempts) or 5 extra MCQs in Section A (just like this attempt).
These questions have no marks. If you have done them right, you don’t get any marks and if you have done them wrong there are no marks lost.
But the problem is, you don’t know which questions are seeded. So you just have to take every question equally seriously as if it is NOT seeded and will be marked.Does that answer your question?
June 8, 2018 at 9:14 pmThank you so much for replying, I really appreciate it.
I understand the concept you have described and answered all questions as if they will be marked.
I am not trying to find a way to identify what will/won’t be marked, I simply don’t understand how this done. For example if there were 5 seeded mcq which were on every single exam and 40% got them right, and the overall pass percentage was 40% then I can see this as a viable test of quality assurance. Just saying that they are there for quality assurance without the logic behind it is what I don’t get.
Apologies if I have missed something which would explain that in your response, exam fatigue is strong.
June 8, 2018 at 9:34 pmThank you for replying.
I feel like ‘quality assuarance’ without explanation is vague. It allows for speculation. A clear explanation would be beneficial as interpretations vary wildly. Hopefully this thread will shed light on the logic.
June 9, 2018 at 12:24 amThanks for answer…
I guess I have some knowledge about the WHY but believe me last exam was like completly no hope …Most of question I didnt know from where to startJune 9, 2018 at 2:09 pm@janetf said:
Thank you so much for replying, I really appreciate it.I understand the concept you have described and answered all questions as if they will be marked.
I am not trying to find a way to identify what will/won’t be marked, I simply don’t understand how this done. For example if there were 5 seeded mcq which were on every single exam and 40% got them right, and the overall pass percentage was 40% then I can see this as a viable test of quality assurance. Just saying that they are there for quality assurance without the logic behind it is what I don’t get.
Apologies if I have missed something which would explain that in your response, exam fatigue is strong.
Kinda agree with you. The only logic that i have understood so far is that this helps in not focusing the exams around some particular areas of the syllabus. I have seen so many students, particularly in F6, skipping some parts & only focusing on the selected ones. Seeded questions might help in forcing students to ‘get the knowledge’ rather than pass the exams’.
You can read further on seeded questions here:June 9, 2018 at 6:22 pmHi if some one please reply
Will we get any marks on B section for small error I mean wrong answer but close to correct one . How marking scheme works actually on B section
Is there anything on section B like section C we get some sort of marks
Many thanksJune 9, 2018 at 6:27 pmSection B is marked the same way as section A, automatically. Your answer is either right and you get 2 marks or wrong and you get 0. No marks awarded for partially right answers… unfortunately…
June 11, 2018 at 12:29 pm@beloslava said:
i said he is not a resident, because 2 ties and 100 days (according to the table he needs 3, if hasn’t been resident before and has been in uk for 91-120 days stay) but that might as well be wrong as i literally spent 4 min answering this…..
at first i skipped this part but i had 9 min to spare when i finished with the rest of that question so i decided to give it a go anyway, then spent the other 5 minutes to random choose 3 or 4 answers in MSQs as i didn’t have a clue… let’s hope those were the seeded Qs;-)))
overall it was ok paper.. i have had three so far and this one seemed less difficult…. let’s hope for the bestI wrote that he was not Uk resident in 2015/16 because he had only 2 ties attached to his 100-day stay.
However, I said he was resident in 2016/17 because there was an additional tie which made his total ties to the Uk up to 3. He had accommodation, substantive work, and total number of days spent in the uk within the previous 2 tax years which exceeded 90 days (100 days in 2015/16 and 46 days in 2014/15). These made 3 ties to go with the 100 day.June 11, 2018 at 12:48 pmyeah Adannaya thats how I seen his residence same as yourself think thats near word for word what I put.
June 13, 2018 at 11:55 amFingers crossed for everyone here. Good luck!
I’m planning to take the exam in September.
Has anyone used BPP? How do you think the BPP kits prepared you for the exam?June 13, 2018 at 12:07 pmBPP helped well enough… Used it for all my skills papers. I’m considering trying a mix of BPP and Kaplan for my professional papers in December.
June 15, 2018 at 3:44 pm@adannaya said:
BPP helped well enough… Used it for all my skills papers. I’m considering trying a mix of BPP and Kaplan for my professional papers in December.Ok thanks, good luck!
June 24, 2018 at 9:41 pmGuys, I had to do a lot of corrections in the section C. Resulting in some cutting and corrections. Kinda alot of them. Basically it won’t be as neat and organized as I wanted it to be. Do you think they’ll skip marks for the whole answer because of that? I’m scared af
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