Exam kit writing style doubts

ACCA does not mind bullet points as such, but they each must be at least a sentence so that you properly explain the point you are making. A list of one or two word will gain few if any marks.

Try a progression:

1 Use one or two word bullet points for planning – presumably you know why you have mentioned the point.

2 Expand that into one or two sentences to fully explain the point and its implications and possible response.

3 You won’t have to add very much to turn each bullet point into a paragraph (or even to combine two related points into one paragraph. Instead of bullets.

Markers always hope for separate paragraphs as they make answers much easier to read and to award marks. They hate pages with no paragraphs as it is much harder to allocate marks.

So you are starting at the right end of the spectrum: easier to turn bullet points into paragraphs than turn pages into paragraphs. Of course, you will never have time to write as much as is in model answers, but that isn’t needed.

Note that is you are doing your exam using their CBE system and the word processor, you can easily use the above system: first the one or two word bullets. Then amend by expanding these and maybe reordering to produce a coherent answer.