Make the Question Simpler
Let’s get rid of everything that isn’t on the spec. We will need these words later when writing the answer out, but we do NOT need them while we work out what the question is really about.
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Read moreAnother "Suggest" AQA exam question walk through
Example 2: Q3 Paper 2 2023
This next question is more complex, and there are two ‘suggest’ questions.
But first - I always recommend you don’t read the actual questions until you’ve looked at the background information, graph etc. Doing this will help you avoid getting overwhelmed and jumping to mistaken conclusions (which is very common in exam situations!).
So let’s keep the questions for later. First make sense of this:
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