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Exams don’t test what you know. They test your ability to communicate what you know.
There’s a common misunderstanding about exams.
People say exams test your knowledge.
They don’t. Not really.
Exams are not mind-reading machines. They cannot see what you understand or what you’ve memorised. They can only assess how well you communicate your understanding or knowledge.
And that difference matters.
One tiny word that causes big Comprehension problems
There’s one small word that regularly trips children up in comprehension.
It’s not a long, complicated word.
It’s why.
When we see why in a question, we know it means: give a reason.
But many children don’t actually answer the reason. They answer something else.