Exam Intelligence

One of the things that came out of the last 7 days spent doing an SAQ and MCQs every day for for a total of about 80 SAQs and about 150 MCQs. One of the benefits has been from marking those SAQs ourselves, against an “ideal answer” sheet.

I actually tried quite hard to give credit for some answers that were difficult to read, but it really was frustrating. And that’s what you want to avoid the examiner feeling to get maximum marks.

Here is a much nicer answer to mark than some of my first attempts.

Note the open spaces, capitalisation and clean underlining of “MANAGEMENT” on the right, and compare with the “Blood glucose” sub-point of “Metabolic derangement” closely followed by the “Malnutrition” sub-heading, and see how different it appears.

For comparison, here is a bad layout in an answer about venous air embolism.

If you want to learn more about how to do this, then you need to go on one of Dr David Gray’s Courses in Liverpool. There is NO substitute for the stress you go through on the course, such that by the time you get to the exam it will worry you less. It is, of course, done in a safe environment, and no trainees came to any physical harm except exhaustion.

Please understand that at the request of the organisers and the time and effort they put in, I can’t put more information about the SAQs or MCQs on this page!

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