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 Anyone who I've taught in the last (I dread to think how many) few years, will be aware of the BLT method of answering questions. Whilst I'm aware that there are individuals outside of my classroom who have questioned it, I've found it a useful way of structuring each paragraph which we present, in order to ensure that the examiner sees that we have covered everything required, but also to ensure that we make sure we cover everything we need to. It's also incredibly easy to remember - but how does it work. BLT stands for: Because Leading To Therefore The idea is that by utilising these three key words in our answers as sentence starters, we are ensuring that we progress through the key areas we need to demonstrate within our response: Knowledge Analysis Evaluation Remember also that whatever question we're answering, we must ensure that we use context - which I discussed in THIS post. So - let's break the BLT approach down so we're clear - please note that...

 Context - you're told frequently to use it in answers, and I'm sure you're aware that it's how we use the case study or information that we're provided with in an exam - but what is it?  All too often, students assume that simply mentioning the name of the business, or one piece of information from the case study is enough to earn full context marks, but there's more to it. As I frequently say to my classes - the exam board don't give you that information because they think you'll be bored and want something to read, they give it to you and expect you to use it. So how can we maximise our context marks? Let's consider the example below: Reading the above, you'll immediately see "Royal Harbor (RH)" mentioned - so that's our first obvious point of note - don't refer to 'the business', 'they', or even worse, 'you' - instead focus on ensuring you use the name of the business since you've been provided wi...

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