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Hello mike 🙂
Do we have to provide case laws in answers of knowledge based questions? or is it possible to achieve full marks without doing so and by providing all points in that specific area?Ofcourse case laws are required in scenario based, but i was just wondering about the knowledge based questions? how high can we achieve out of 10 without stating any associated case laws, thanks 🙂
and also how long do we have to write? for 10 marks, if we state 10 valid points and explain them enough in 1-2 lines, is it enough?
There are some knowledge based questions which are improved by quoting cases to illustrate points. or example “Silence cannot be acceptance ( Felthouse v Bindley )” or “Offers can be made to the World at large ( Carlill v Carbolic Smokeball Co )”
In answer to your question, some knowledge based questions are crying out for cases to illustrate but others aren’t eg “What does the abbreviation “Ltd” mean?”
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Ok thanks 🙂 But what if we cant extract one liners out of the case, or if i only manage to remember the story not the name, or partial name of the case? Like can i say In Fenthouse’s case, it was stated that nephew didn’t reply to uncle but uncle assumed it as acceptance but silence cant be acceptance, OR what if i just state Felthouse v Bindley but fail to mention the point in it though its related to the question.
The mark earning point is “Silence cannot be acceptance” The icing on the cake is mentioning the Felthouse ( not Fenthouse! ) case
Thanks alot mike 🙂 that explains it, so its more about having knowledge related to the particular topic rather then learning all those case names and facts inside them. Since they actually just prove the particular rule in application.
by the way i have a small question, how long do we have to write for 10 marks? i mean mentioning 10 points related to the question is good or just lengthy lengthy paragraphs associated with each point
You have 18 minutes per question and, if you tackle the exam the way I always recommend, you have 5 of those 18 minutes planning how you are going to get 10 points. That leaves you with just 13 minutes to write out your 10 mark earning paragraphs.
So, let me ask you, how long are your “lengthy lengthy paragraphs associated with each point” going to be? How much can you write in 1.3 minutes? A page? Half a page? Or, realistically, just one sentence of maybe ( at most ) three lines length.
This is called discipline and, just because you do happen to have revised the particular question which David Kelly has been kind enough to ask, this does NOT give you licence to prove to some anonymous marker tat you are the World expert on that topic. You have 18 minutes per question! Not 21, 20 nor even 19. You have 18 minutes. Per question.
If it’s not too late, look at a past exam question and see if you can attempt it reasonably in 18 minutes – I’m asking you to write out your effort as though you were actually in the exam room. And stop after 18 minutes. In fact, you could spend 19.5 minutes on the question to allow for one tenth of the “reading and planning time”.
You can …. but it won’t do you any good. Equally you could ask if you could answer in Chinese characters. Again the answer is yes. And again, it won’t do you any good.
How can you “identify”, “explain”, “discuss” or “comment” on a subject matter in bullet points? No, the ACCA want proper sentences
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