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Lessons from an examiner

Ian Yule provides a distillation of the most common mistakes he witnessed over 20 years as an examiner

All the problems below recur year after year, and could easily be avoided if students and teachers analysed the examiners’ reports published after each examination. As I used to say to my own students, be sure to learn from the errors and omissions of previous students, so if you do make a mistake, at least it will be original.

Many more marks are lost by omissions and irrelevancies than because of mistakes. The most common omissions include:

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