P3 General Questions

Hi Ken,

I am sure this question has featured before so apologies if it has, but when using the revision kits for practice questions is it advisable to focus on those questions that have been examined previously, or those that haven’t or both? The kits provide over 70 questions (most have been examined and adapted since they were last examined but some appear to have never been examined and it (at least in my eyes) isn’t possible to get through all with a reasonable amount of commitment and coverage hence I am looking to adopt the best strategy…

in addition, I have been considering the mark allocation together with all of the past examiner reports and all mention poor time management particularly at P level, is it therefore reasonable to think you should spend between 60% and 65% of your time reading and answer planning with the remaining 40% or 35% being spent on the actual answer?

Putting this into context, this would mean spending about hour reading and answer planning question 1 (50 marks) with around 40 minutes focussing purely on the answer?

I will post this on the general P3 forum as well however I would really like to hear your view on this as well.

Thanks,