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Thursday, 4 November 2010

Business Exam: Command Words

Command words


With the January exams approaching you need to thinking about getting used to some of the command words you will encounter in the exams and the assessment criteria being assessed.

In general,


* for knowledge expect: describe, identify, what, name, state


* for application expect: how would X, how might X, describe how X (where X relates to the context)


* for analysis expect: explain, comment on, why might X (analysis is essentially about consequences or causes of business behaviour)
* for evaluation expect: assess, evaluate, examine, 'to what extent' and 'recommend'

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