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P2 Answer Key

The document provides strategies for effectively answering Paper 2 questions by emphasizing the importance of application, considering multiple stakeholder perspectives, and approaching the case as a consultant. It outlines steps to identify writing skill requirements based on marks and offers a template for structuring answers according to the skills needed. Key writing skills include knowledge, application, analysis, and evaluation, with specific guidance on how to address each in responses.

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P2 Answer Key

The document provides strategies for effectively answering Paper 2 questions by emphasizing the importance of application, considering multiple stakeholder perspectives, and approaching the case as a consultant. It outlines steps to identify writing skill requirements based on marks and offers a template for structuring answers according to the skills needed. Key writing skills include knowledge, application, analysis, and evaluation, with specific guidance on how to address each in responses.

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How to master the art of writing Paper 2 answers

The best way to approach Paper 2 is to make a combination of the following


strategies:

1. Application is absolutely locked in. You can only mention the business or the
business situations you see in the case. Refrain from making assumptions or
creating situations in the internal/external environment which aren’t mentioned in
the case, just to support your answer. If a point needs to go in your answer, it must
have some clue/root/hint in the case connected to it.

2. Never approach the case from only the perspective of owners. Owners are just one
of the many stakeholders and just answering from their perspective makes it
biased.

3. Approach the case as a consultant who has been approached by the business in
the case to help them identify what has been going well for them, and what hasn’t
been going so well.

4. Provide reasons for success and solutions to problems of the business.

Recall the writing skills (Knowledge, Application, Analysis, Evaluation).

Steps needed to identify writing skill clues hidden in the questions

1. Always take an extra minute to divide the question into the writing skill requirements

2. Identify the marks attached with each question and recall the template needed for
answering that question. The template is provide in the table below.

Command Points
Marks Writing skills required
word needed

1 Identify 1 Knowledge (1)

3 (a) Explain 1 Knowledge (1) + Application (2)

3 (b) Explain 1 Application (1) + Analysis (2)

8 Analyse 2 [ Knowledge (1) + Application (1) + Analysis (2) ] x 2

Evaluate /
12 Discuss / Min. 3 Knowledge (2) + Application (2) + Analysis (2) + Evaluation (6)
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3. By looking at the marks, you will have identi ed which skills you need to show in your
answer (e.g. 8 marks require knowledge, application, analysis)
4. Highlight the exact word(s) in the question which is giving the following clues about
each writing skill.
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• Knowledge - identify the word which you can de ne in a one line business
concept.

• Application - the entire case, numbers, objectives, etc.


• Analysis - discuss the advantage and disadvantages of the concept in
knowledge on the business in the case.

• Evaluation - provide a judgement on whether your analysis will work or not work.
Do this by dividing your evaluation into 3 levels.

Level 1 - Answer whether the decisions being taken or correct or


incorrect.

Level 2 - If the decisions are correct, provide reason(s) from the case to
support it.

Level 3 - If the decisions are incorrect, provide solution(s) which can be


implemented in the short term to nullify them.

Important to remember:

• Always check you answer according to the template provided above to ensure all
requirements are being met.

• Number of points are not awarded marks. Examiners are looking for writing skills in the
correct proportion.

• Each case study is di erent. Therefore this is just a guide to help your approach.
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