La puce wrote:
Mike Lyle wrote:
Right; but preferably not if the ground is actually frozen.

I got a 5 instead of a 10 for a series of questions my tutor gave
us.
On all of them I had forgotten to mention the obvious, the common
sense, the logical like:- water after planting. Ho! I mentioned the
entire maintenance, the deadheading, feeding, watering, mulching,
deviding, looking for sign of p&d and had time to even mention all
the
possible uses of each plants, decoration, medicinal, culinary
purposes. But no. 5 points for forgetting watering after planting.
As if I wouldn't!!!! And I think that's a problem because you think
'they know that', you think 'it's bleeding obvious'. Actually, you
just don't think that anymore. It's ... automatic.

Fed up.

An exam isn't life: it's there to check what you know. So you tell
them what you know. As a former teacher, I say assume the examiner
knows nothing, and concentrate. Why is it "obvious" that you water
after planting? If you don't mention it, it will seem you don't know
_why_ it's necessary. Anyhow, if you forget to mention it in
description, how does the examiner know you won't forget to do it
when actually planting? He may even get the impression that you
aren't a systematic thinker.

Exam technique: it isn't life, but it's not as irrelevant as some
people make out.

--
Mike.