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Question or not to Question?

Posted: Sunday 05 February 2012 by Colin Dickson
Replies : 2

Hi

I'm busy revising for the P2 resit in Feb and have a question, not only for this sitting but for future ones also. Albeit this is the last in the Management level so I should know the answer to this already but...

Should your answer include a question? For example take a look at the study notes in the latest issue of the FM magazine (http://www.fm-magazine.com/assets/pdf/fm_12_feb_2012.pdf)

On page 43/44 has a scenario relating to limiting factors, which i'm fine with, however on page 44 at the end of the article it tells you the non-financial factors associated with the scenario and they're all questions... ok rhetorical ones but still questions.

I was always told at Kaplan not to ask a question in your answer?

Should you or shouldn't you?

 

Thanks in advance.

 

Colib 

good question

Posted by Michael Archibald on Sunday 05 February 2012 22:26

I think it would be ok to ask questions as long as its applied to the scenario. If you can add a bit more than just the question it would be better.

Or even better rephrase your question into a statement with follow on consequences.

eg instead of "do the workforce have the skills to produce component xx?" you could say " we would need to consider if the workforce have the neccessarily skills to produce xx and if not we would need to do x or y" - if the scenario hints at the answer you could link to that also.

just a slight rephrase and a bit more depth should be fine.

P2 article

Posted by Rebecca McCaffry on Monday 06 February 2012 16:03

Hi Colin

The intention of the article is to get you thinking about what the non-financial factors could be (rather than providing a model answer), hence the questions. 

Michael's suggestion of using consequences is a good one but I'd definitely leave the question-asking to the examiner. Unless, of course, you've been asked to come up with some questions!  

Best wishes

Rebecca
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