If you are studying GCSE courses for Edexcel (B), OCR (B) or WJEC (B), one of your examinations will be a decisionmaking exercise (DME). In this kind of exam, you are given resources designed to introduce you to a place and an issue. The issues are contemporary and real — this is not fiction. You are usually asked to suggest a solution or a strategy from a list of options, and to justify the solution you select. For some exam boards, teachers are notified in advance about which topics will feature in the DME.
In the case of Edexcel and OCR, the DME is a full examination paper; for WJEC it forms part of Paper 2. The DME for Edexcel is not specifically linked to any part of the course. OCR’s DME assesses one of the taught units and WJEC’s is a problem-solving exercise designed to assess your understanding of how all the units link together.
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