Planning Questions

I’m pretty sure you can…in fact, it might not be a bad idea if you are running a bit short of time and think the gong will go before you’ve written up the whole answer in long-hand. At least with the plan there, the marker can consider giving you a teeny bit of credit for a key word or two which you never got to use.

However, you must clearly mark your plan “Plan/Notes”, and even draw a ruler line between it and the proper answer, so the marker can see where the plan ends and the answer begins.

I’ve tried both approaches in previous exams…and my personal pref is to write my plan in the question booklet (then I don’t worry if it’s a shambles, or looks messy).
But I do remember one exam where the gong went and I had written a super list of key phrases in my question booklet, but which I never had time to transfer to the answer booklet…so the marker never got to see it & I lost the marks for it.

It’s swings and roundabouts really…a matter of personal pref…but, yes, you can write plans in the answer booklet.

(Although not during the 15min reading time…no writing at all in the answer-booklet during the reading time….only in the question paper).