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LazyLinePainterJane
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Any advice on how the answers required differ between these instruction words?
Looking at past papers and ActEd materials, it seems they all mean "write a short sentence about each idea for half a mark each".
In normal English usage, they of course have different meanings, but I'm not sure how to apply this to exam questions. "Explain" implies more detail to "Outline" but seems pretty similar to "Describe".
I assume I should be dealing with each of these instructions differently, but how? If they all earn half a mark per point, then do they need a different level of detail? Or is the detail in the range of ideas, rather than the detail given to each idea?
Any help would be much appreciated, wordiness was never my strength!
(I'm taking CA1 by the way, but presumably the same applies to all ST and SA subjects too)
Looking at past papers and ActEd materials, it seems they all mean "write a short sentence about each idea for half a mark each".
In normal English usage, they of course have different meanings, but I'm not sure how to apply this to exam questions. "Explain" implies more detail to "Outline" but seems pretty similar to "Describe".
I assume I should be dealing with each of these instructions differently, but how? If they all earn half a mark per point, then do they need a different level of detail? Or is the detail in the range of ideas, rather than the detail given to each idea?
Any help would be much appreciated, wordiness was never my strength!
(I'm taking CA1 by the way, but presumably the same applies to all ST and SA subjects too)