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Answering shorter substantive law questions in AQA exams

In A-LEVEL LAW REVIEW, Vol. 15, No. 1, pp. 26–28, Peter Darwent showed how to answer the 30-mark substantive law questions. Here, he focuses on the shorter questions

One of the challenges of the AQA specification is that every paper requires you to answer a variety of different question types. In order to do this successfully, it is important to prepare for each type of question.Because the same pattern of questions is repeated on all the papers, the skills you use in answering questions on Paper 1 are transferable to questions on each of the other papers.

Question 8 is a 10-mark problem-solving question and it will always be narrower in scope than the 30-mark questions. For example, where Paper 1 Question 10 might require discussion of three major areas, Question 8 is likely to focus on just one. Another difference is that the 30-mark questions are open-ended, i.e. they don’t identify the areas you need to discuss. In Question 8, it is likely that the wording of the question will direct you to a particular area of law.

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