(18-08-2010, 06:15 AM)hiteshp Wrote: Hi,
Please find attached our attempts at the Mod 1 2007 paper Questions 1 - 3. [Q1 and Q3 now filed separately PJW]
This was done under time pressure and therefore may be lacking in content!
Cheers,
Hitesh & Laura
Yes your answers were pretty sketchy; I am assuming that you each made your separate attempts and that each represents 30 minutes, but perhaps you were only allowing yourselves 20 minutes as will be the case in 2010 (and either the questions will be shorter or a more outline style of answer is inevitable). You didn't say whether you actually wrote your answers long hand and then typed in for my convenience or whether you were against time but typing on a computer.......
I have added some comments to the text; occasionally I have added a little in track changes, but do refer also to the earlier attempts in this thread and the commentary thereon.
Laura was definitely the better for "competence", BUT had really spread this content over part a) as well as part b); therefore would not have scored much for part a) as the question was much wider than that.
Hitesh would at least have got some of the marks for part a) but wouldn't have scored that well since the answer didn't refer to the detailed pragmatic things that really help control the risk rather than just document an audit trail.
The best portion of the Hitesh answer was the last part but it could have done with more detail throughout although it did have the range. Conversely Laura started off fine and was explaining at an appropriate level of detail but then it seemed just to stop without covering all the ground; I am not sure whether she just run out of time to complete or alternatively didn't think there was more to say. The fact that it ended on an irrelevance suggests it might have been the latter- otherwise it was a poor use of the last few seconds which could have been more usefully spent in a quick bullet point list to pick up as many of the remaining marks within the last few seconds.
I haven't attempted to score the answers- both were definitely too brief for 30 minutes and therefore would have been struggling to pick up enough marks to ensure a pass. Hitesh did the better job of uniform if very thin coverage, whilst Laura was far more convincing on sections addressed but may have scored worse overall
Doing a question against time is rather different than discussing at leisure in a group. Practice may not make perfect, but it certainly helps improve.
PJW