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Paper one - guidance on the short answer paper

In paper one you will have a short piece of text which will form the basis for your responses. With a total of 20 marks for each question, the question begins with two short answer questions involving one of the following command terms: Define/state/identify. This will then be followed by two, four mark questions using one of the following command terms: Calculate/explain/justify and will very often require students...


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