Faced with mountains of scripts to mark, examiners will quickly look for two things in your essays: that you have answered the whole actual question, and that you have an organised structure to convey that answer. Often students do not complete these basic requirements, and failure to do so leads to middling marks.
Make sure you answer the actual question. Both exam boards have reduced the importance of providing knowledge. Overwhelmingly, most marks reward analysis (exploring the component features) and evaluation (giving value to the analysis). More importantly, this means that ‘it’s not what you know, it’s how you use it’ that makes your grade. Therefore, answering the actual question set rather than writing just any old knowledge connected to the question is of utmost importance: more than ever, description is not wanted.
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