When you are sitting in the exam hall and open the exam paper, you may well head straight towards the extended-response questions. These questions are worth the most marks for a single answer, so you need to get them written and get them right. While this is completely true, you must not overlook the short-response questions.
I always say to my students that these are the bread-and-butter marks. Although they seem less important, they give you the foundations to boost your overall grade. Students will often remark after an exam, ‘Well I only missed a couple of 2-mark questions’, or ‘I omitted a few little questions’. However, by not paying attention to or not completing all the short-response questions, you could have just dropped a grade boundary, or more.
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