Louise Boylan

It's just both of them of the same structure.

So we've section A is worth half of the marks and they've to answer five questions out of six.

And they are what we call the short questions.

They're not very short, though.

They're usually about two, eight, four pages each.

I would suggest to the students take about 12 minutes for each of those.

So that's five twelves.

That's one hour.

Your paper two then.

is three questions, three long questions.

They're worth 50 marks each.

And I would say take 20 minutes for each of those.

That's another hour.

And that gives you an hour left over to read it at the start, check at the end, go back and do a thing that you couldn't do.

What's really important for students, though, is to not get bogged down in a question.

If they're working away and they're getting stuck and it's going on too long and they're not getting the answer, just leave it, walk away.

Because the marks tend to be for the starts of the questions, not the hard bits at the end.

Hugely important.

No marks or blanks.

And sometimes, you know, if a question is overpitched and they have done it in the past and it's overpitched and students read it and they panic and they do nothing.