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Mike,
I asked this question two days ago in the ATT P3 forums and got no reply. I presume Gromit is busy these days. Since you are the one who is most active on the forums I have decided to ask it here. P3 and P7 both being theoretical papers I believe my question is related, more or less. I have copy pasted my post below.
Gromit,
I have completed multiple past papers and while I am writing I feel as though everything I write is perfectly relevant and sufficiently detailed.
However when I turn towards the answers I am often shocked to see that, on best cases I managed to write two-three things that match with the answer within a specific part. So I’m here to seek your advice on what to do in this situation when little only time is left before the exam.
Thanks.Bit of a bummer that, isn’t it! But you’re not alone (if that helps!)
Actually, when you read through the answer a second time, and put your own words to the interpretation of the printed comments, you could well find that you’ve got more than just the two-three similar matters.
Besides, if it’s only a three mark part question, that’s a comfortable pass! 🙂
What may help you is this technique. When you read a question, and you write your plan, planning time allocation is now complete …… just before you start to write your proper full answer, read the question again.
This time, you’re checking to see that you have answered the question that was asked and not some favourite tangential question that you had hoped for.
In addition, you’re checking to see that, if you write out your plan, you will answer the FULL question (remember ATFQ) and that you haven’t missed any crucial parts
And thirdly, if you write out what you have planned does that answer go into matters that lie beyond the realms of the question?
It’s like those words spoken by witnesses in court cases on the television where they swear to tell the truth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth
Applied to you and P3 and P7, you need to answer the question, the whole question and nothing but the question
Hope that helps
Yes I do try to answer the whole of the question. But how do I prepare so I can enhance my analytical skills to the point that I am able to infer more and match more than three points to the answer? Obviously I do not expect myself to get to the analytical level of the examiner but I still want to do better.
The exam is tomorrow! My best suggestion is spend the rest of today reading through past exam answers.
The formula applicable to law question (old style) was the idea of IDEA
identify the problem, define any matters requiring definition, expand upon those thoughts and apply the expansion to the question
I’ve never tried that at P1, P2 nor P7 but it could help
But still, I would spend the rest of today just reading
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