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Mastering the assessment objectives

Application

In this series Ian Marcousé looks at each of the assessment objectives that determine the grade you achieve. More than any other, application provides the route to A grades

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To show application, you need to pick the key factors, events and concepts from the examiner’s text. Ultimately this requires one ability above all others: the ability to understand the significance of the business story being unfolded. This ‘Exam guide’ will set out some of the factors that recur in exam papers — because they recur in business life. Before that, though, it is helpful to understand how to read a piece of exam text.

In the hands of a weak student, a quick read of the examiner’s case study yields no more than a few references to the company name and a few facts plucked from the text.

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