When answering multiple choice questions, are we meant to show our working or are the 1 and a half marks just for the answer? Secondly, when a question requires a list of answers and its worth say, 5 marks, are we meant to write five points or 10 or as many as you can think of, seeing as the Q and A bank as well as the X assignments have a lot of half marks?
Regarding multiple-choice questions ... If you're doing them in the exam, you just put the answer down (A,B,C or D). You get 1.5 if you're right and 0 if you're wrong. If you're doing assignments, it's worth writing down your working so that your marker can comment on where you might have gone wrong. Other questions ... If the question asks you to list, eg economies of scale, then you'll probably get half a mark for each point. No explanation is required. If the question asks you to describe/explain/discuss, then you'll probably get 1 mark for each well explained point (or maybe more, depending on how difficult the explanation is). Sometimes the question asks you to state, eg which country has the comparative advantage, and you just have to state it for 1 mark. Calculation questions are sometimes quite generous, eg calculate elasticity of demand for 2 marks, so it's worth writing down the formula and your working so that you can get some method marks in case you make a mistake. Diagram questions can be generous too, but to get all the marks, you have to label everything, show all the correct relationships (eg AC, MC) and show exactly what the question wants you to show. Good luck!
