Morning all I was just wondering roughly when the upcoming SA7 paper for September 2022 would have been written? The motive for this question relates to the economic impacts of the ongoing Ukraine crisis, which would of course set the scene for a good inflation/rates/geopolitcal/DM vs EM/etc question. Whilst on the topic though - any other thoughts for possible topical questions (perhaps relating to earlier events if the above is deemed too recent)? Thanks in advance and good luck everybody.
Hi, The papers for April and September are normally written around the end of the previous year, possibly drifting into Jan 2022 (for this year's papers). So Ukraine would not have been an issue. Inflation was already picking up and was already a major issue before the Ukraine crisis. Hope this helps.
Hi both Do you think if we made references or examples to current issues which occurred after the exams were written, we would still gain marks provided they were relevant and helped answer the question? Or is it better to limit examples to what happened around when the exams were written, as any examples from the 2022 markets say won't be on the mark scheme.
Candidates should answer exam questions as if they were written on the day in which the exam is sat. There is no requirement to second-guess when the exam questions were written and then only refer to relevant example as at that date. Furthermore, whilst the exam questions may have been written some time ago, the marking schedule can easily be updated immediately before marking commences to bring it in line with contemporary issues.
