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The document provides 12 exam tips focused on effective answering techniques for theory questions. Key points include using correct terminology, avoiding repetition, and clearly distinguishing between concepts. It emphasizes the importance of understanding the question requirements and structuring answers appropriately to maximize marks.

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!theory Exam Tips

The document provides 12 exam tips focused on effective answering techniques for theory questions. Key points include using correct terminology, avoiding repetition, and clearly distinguishing between concepts. It emphasizes the importance of understanding the question requirements and structuring answers appropriately to maximize marks.

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© Reddam House Constantia 2022

12 Exam Tips
Theory
1. Use the correct terminology. This is vital if you don't really know what you are
talking about and are guessing. The correct terminology can often get a mark.
2. When a question asks for two or three things. Make sure you don't include the same
concept more than once. Don't repeat yourself in different ways. E.g. Networks:
a) data is centralised
b) all the data is stored on the server.
These two points mean the same thing.
3. If you are repeating yourself. You will never get two questions that are looking for
the same answer, go back and reread both questions.
4. Understand the differences between a device, a technology, and software. E.g.
Bluetooth has hardware receivers and transmitters, it also has software that sends
and receives data and passes it onto the relevant app. Both the hardware and the
software would be the technology.
5. When students start sentences "allows for...", "provides…" or "due to…" or similar
they most often get muddled up and are not sure what to say next and write random
words down so the sentence makes no sense. Try to avoid this and use Active Voice.
"A NIC is a… and does this or that …"
6. Do not confuse the person/user with the computer. When you asked about
hardware or software, do not bring the user into it. Clients and servers, apps,
software are not people.
Bad e.g network switches allow for users to communicate with the server.
Good. A switch is a hardware device that connects all the devices on the network
and controls…
7. When you start an answer or use words like it, they, or them in a sentence, it is not
clear to the marker what you are talking about. There may be more than one 'subject'
or 'object' in the question. Say exactly what you mean. Write explicitly.
8. Never ever use things, stuff or equally vague nouns.
9. Only ever use adjectives like faster, slower, cheaper, bigger, etc with
substantiation or justification or comparison in your answer. If something is faster,
markers have to know faster than what and why that is relevant.
10. In a question that asks for TWO or THREE items.Students often give less. So don't
forget to add two or three points. Use numbered lists or bullets.
It is very common to forget to add another point, or waffle on the first point.
BUT if the question asks for one thing and you give two, only the first item will be
marked, if that is wrong and the second one correct you cannot get the mark.
However, if a sentence that somehow has two items in a sort of explanatory way, the
second item that is correct can be marked. It all depends on the sentence.
11. Read the question.
Take note of terms like:
• Definition. What is it?
• Functions. What does it do?
• Why?
• Advantages/Disadvantages
• E.G. Advantage: A cabled connection is faster,
• A Wifi connection is slower) This is the same point and will only get one mark.
12. Be careful with very wordy questions. Read them at least twice, looking out for the
nouns such as give, list, explain, describe as well as words such as and and or and
especially apart from, other than, or except for.
13. If asked to compare two items or concepts. Be aware of giving too much information,
such as adding facts that are not asked for. You will tend to feel you have written
lots so that will be alright, however, they will not be marked.
14. The examiner gives you the space she/he thinks is required for that answer. Use
that as a guide. If you cannot fit your answer into the space provided please state
that you have continued elsewhere. And then do not forget to number the
question at the back.
DO NOT write up the margin, in the marker’s box or all around the page.
15. Questions that are related are numbered together:
4.1
4.1.1
5. Has no relevance to question 4, unless specified or if it is the scenario
question.
16. Use reading time to scan the main questions, check the mark allocations and the
scenario questions. Read the scenarios over more than once. These questions
have to be answered with the scenario in mind.
17. In your spare time at the end. There is often plenty of time. Go back and READ your
answers. Do they make sense? Are they legible? And did you answer the question?

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