Hi,
As an example of not answering the question - I remember distinctly marking one second year undergraduate exam paper in which the three required answers were identical. The exam was assessing knowledge of a particular procedural system in terms of its applications. The student had simply learnt the stages of the procedure by heart and in every question where the procedure was mentioned wrote out what he had learnt. If he had read/understood the questions he would have realised that there were such words as "compare and contrast" "assess the impact" "using examples, describe" etc. As he was the only student in a group of 45 who'd done so, I felt reasonably confident that the fault didn't lie with the questions. But it's an exam script I'll never forget.
All the best,
Ann
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