2017, Question 2 · 7 points
A music scholarship audition day
Show how seven ideas, from a stage of the stress response and unconscious memory to hearing structures, body-sense cortex, inner drive and an outgoing personality trait, could each have helped a student succeed during a long audition visit.
This exam had two free-response questions to answer in 50 minutes, together worth one third of the total score, and the directions asked for a reasoned answer using psychological terms rather than a list of facts. The current exam has 2 free-response questions in 70 minutes. The skills these questions practice still count.
Lessons this question draws on
1 Read the question
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2 Write your answer
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Scoring guidelines (PDF, page 5) What the exam readers saw (Chief Reader report)
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