The Sage Course Companion on Financial Accounting is an accessible introduction to the subject that will help readers to master key concepts and enhance their thinking skills in line with course requirements. It provides support on how to revise for exams and prepare for and write assessed pieces.

Tips on Interpreting Essay and Exam Questions

Tips on Interpreting Essay and Exam Questions

Tips on interpreting essay and exam questions

This section will show you how to:

  • focus on the issues that are relevant and central;
  • read questions carefully and take account of all the words;
  • produce a balanced critique in your outline structures;
  • screen for the key words that will shape your response;
  • focus on different shades of meaning between ‘critique’, ‘evaluate’, ‘discuss’ and ‘compare and contrast’.

What do You See?

The suggested explanation for visual illusions is the inappropriate use of cues i.e. we try to interpret three-dimensional figures in the real world with the limitations of a two dimensional screen (the retina in the eye). We use cues such as shade, texture, size, background, etc., to interpret distance, motion, shape, etc., and we sometimes use ...

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