ABSTRACT
At this point in the book you have acquired the knowledge necessary to tackle the exam itself. Answering exam questions is a skill and in this chapter we hope to help you improve this skill. By studying the essays presented in this chapter, and the examiner’s comments, you can learn how to improve your essays and examination answers. Please note that marks given by the examiner in the practice essays should be used as a guide only and are not definitive. They represent the raw marks given by an AQA(A) examiner: that is, the marks the examiner would give to the Examining Board based on a total of 24 marks per question broken down into Skill A01 (description) and Skill A02 (evaluation). A table showing this scheme is in the Appendix of Paul Humphreys’ title in this series, Exam Successes in AEB Psychology.
