A Good Essay Answer
Perhaps the most frequent complaint I've encountered as a teacher is, "I wrote such a long answer for the question! For so and so pages. Still, I got only so and so marks!" I used to tire of questioning the logic of such an argument, and so decided to ask these students to generate their own answer to this question, so that they remember what makes an answer a good answer. I give them an exercise of comparing poor and good quality answers (like in the IGCSE candidate's booklet), and list out to me what the differences are between the answers. If you are a student, you can try this 'find the differences' exercise: Question: What is Psychology? What are the major sub-fields of Psychology? (10 marks) A typical 'D' grade (fail) answer : Psychology is study of mind. When we want to see what is in mind of a person, we use psychology. We see thinking of mind in psychology. Psychology has many sub...