Month: January 2015
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Answering a Constructed Response (Essay) Question: Allocating Your Time
This will be a very short article. When you are allocating your time to answering a constructed response (i.e., essay, morning session) question, follow this simple rule: ⅔ – ¾ of your time should be spent thinking about your answer ¼ – ⅓ of your time should be spent writing your answer. Suppose that the question asks…
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Essay (Constructed Response) Questions: What’s the Point?
A recent session with one of my tutoring candidates brought to mind an interesting idea that is more than worthy of an article of its own: What’s the point? When you are writing an answer to a constructed response (essay) question, you should ask yourself one simple question: What’s the point of my answer? Huh?…