General question on CAS higher exams

[high9]

I'm writing my first CAS upper exam in May next year (Subject 5) and was looking at some past papers just to get a feel for the setup. On the instruction page, it reads to answer each question on a separate page. Does this refer to each whole question or each sub-question as well?

I know this seems like a silly arbitrary question (especially with the exam 6 months away), but at university I had a prof who took off marks for things like this - flexing his "power" I guess, but having been burned, I have an obsessive compulsive disorder to know...

Thanks in advance for answering this question.

[Utanapishtim]

The instructions at the beginning of the exam will make it clear, particularly when you are given time to number your pages.
You'll get a stack of blank sheets, each of which must have your candidate number and the question number (not sub-question symbol) marked in designated boxes at the top. If you need more space for a question, you can of course mark off two sheets with the same question number, but you cannot answer two questions on the same sheet.

[asamd]

What confuses me is when they say 1 answer per page, but you have a question with multiple parts. Do you answer all of the multiple sub questions on the same page, or have 1a, 1b, ... pages for your answers?

[Utanapishtim]

If it's all part of question #1, it all goes on the page(s) you've marked for question #1, however many that may be. There are no requied page-breaks between parts of a question.

[high9]

Thanks. asamd phrased the question better than I did, but thanks for answering that for me.

[Wigmeister General]

I'm writing my first CAS upper exam in May next year (Subject 5) and was looking at some past papers just to get a feel for the setup. On the instruction page, it reads to answer each question on a separate page. Does this refer to each whole question or each sub-question as well?

I know this seems like a silly arbitrary question (especially with the exam 6 months away), but at university I had a prof who took off marks for things like this - flexing his "power" I guess, but having been burned, I have an obsessive compulsive disorder to know...

Thanks in advance for answering this question.

Whole question whenever possible. You can always write "continued on another sheet" at the bottom, and then label the second sheet accordingly.

[Lucy]

Graders as assigned by question (not subquestion) so it's important that problems that need to go to different graders not be on the same piece of paper.

[statzman]

Utan - Have you ever had time to read all of the instructions at an exam?

No matter how quickly I read, I've never been able to finish the instructions.

[Utanapishtim]

*shrug* They're always the same, aren't they? (:

Besides, I was thinking of the directions that the proctor reads, more than the instructions you're supposed to read.

[GefilteFish144]

The only instructions that have any value are the ones read by the instructor, especially when (s)he tells you how many MC and essay questions there are so you can number your answer sheets accordingly.