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Hellow sir
I want to ask about the mark allocation for sbl exam.
How much mark is 1 valid point? Is it 1mark per point or if we expain the point we get 2 marks?like for eg if I identify recession as an economic factor and then state it is unfavourable to our company due to its impact of less customer disposable income therefore less demand to our product is that considered as 1 or 2 marks?
Am confused as some lecturers say each point is 2marks if explained well, while the marking scheme says 1 mark for each relevant point
PLEASE HELP..ThanksIf you take a 10 mark question and believe the marking scheme, that implies 10 points to be made and explained adequately: just repeating what’s in the question will earn few if marks and you need to move things forwards you did in your example. I don’t think you can adequately describe 10 points in the time available …. if indeed the question contains such a concentration of information that would generate 10 important points. So, I am a believer in 2 marks per valid point well explained. Your example is more likely to gain 2 marks than 1. There might, in a real question, be other things to say eg that the product is a discretionary purchase so is likely to be particularly affected by a recession.
Yes sir I always took 1point as 2marks.
But reading the september 2020 marking scheme confused me as many answers in marking scheme were written as 1 mark per relevant valid point so i was wondering if there was a change in approach to marking by examiner or just depend on the requiremnts and as u said the information available.?
The best advice is to answer the question as fully, professionally and as relevantly as you can and not to keep counting ‘points’. Use marks as a guide to the time you should spend on each question part.
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