Saw two of the mod 2 examiners yesterday. One piece of early feedback re 2016 exam attempts: in general candidates spending too long on their calculations and not enough on signalling the layout itself. Whereas skimping on the explanation of calculations may lose you some marks, this needs to be balanced against the time it takes; if net effect is lack of time to get the layout substantially complete, then the marks that are not achieved will outweigh the increased ones obtained. As ever think "marks per minute" and do enough practice both to determine the optimum split and just speed up generally!
Apparently there was one case of a candidate who had done pages of calculations and description, yet made not a single mark on their layout diagram; there is no way that this person would have passed....
Apparently there was one case of a candidate who had done pages of calculations and description, yet made not a single mark on their layout diagram; there is no way that this person would have passed....
PJW