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- November 27, 2012 at 1:41 pm #55824
Hi John,
Do you have any suggestions on the best technique to use on section A?
I.e write an answer plan or just get straight into writing the report etc.
There is obviously a lot of info to get through so how would you go about organising this?November 27, 2012 at 5:21 pm #108899Most tutors would say to plan an answer first, and that is I suppose the best – however I am not very good at that and I personally would not!!!
Assuming that a report is required, then what I would do is to effectively prepare the appendix first. Once I had decided what was needed (I would use the 15 minute reading time for this) then I would start doing my workings and head up the page(s) appendix and number each of my workings.
OK some of them might be wrong and I might need to rework. Some of them I might decide are not relevant, but I would still leave them (my thinking might be wrong and I might still get some marks).
Then I would start a new page and start writing my report – referring to my workings where relevant.
It is surprising how many marks you can get just from a sensible report, even if the workings are minimal – I have had more than one student who has passed P4 by writing a sensible report but not doing any calculations at all 🙂
November 27, 2012 at 6:28 pm #108900Thanks John
November 28, 2012 at 5:37 pm #108901You are welcome 🙂
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