For many years, Edexcel has given an instruction to examiners which has been repeated, regardless of specification or paper. It is: ‘always work for the best interests of the candidate’. This means that the examiner is on your side — he or she is looking to find ways in which your response can be given credit, not looking for ways in which they can avoid giving you marks. Underlying this philosophy is the recognition that candidates may not perform their best under the stress of an exam.
Exam stress and time constraints are such that having some wellpracticed structural guidelines in mind can be very helpful. In this article, I will explore the 20-mark essays found on A-level Paper 3, Section C (and on the Clinical section of Paper 2), as these are something new to Edexcel, so teachers and students alike need to work out how best to tackle them.
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