Health and Social Care 0003 考試技巧

常見錯誤

1. 1medium涉及分數: 5Health promotion

   Listing the strengths of a social change or health campaign while forgetting to evaluate resistance or a nanny-state perception, leaving an evaluate question one-sided.

   如何避免: Write a for column and an against column before you draft your answer, and use both in your final paragraph.
2. 2high涉及分數: 6Health and well-being

   Addressing only one or two of the physical, intellectual, emotional and social dimensions in a 9 or 12-mark holistic question, which caps the answer within Level 1 or Level 2.

   如何避免: List every dimension the question names before you write, and give each one at least a sentence.
3. 3high涉及分數: 3Adult Service Users

   Giving a generic definition of a care concept, such as person-centred care, without applying it to the specific service user or scenario in the question.

   如何避免: Name the service user and their circumstances in your first sentence, then build the definition around them rather than stating it in the abstract.
4. 4medium涉及分數: 2Adult Service Users

   Confusing informal carers, unpaid family, friends or neighbours, with voluntary sector workers, who are part of an organised charitable service.

   如何避免: Check whether the person in the question is paid, organised through a body, or acting on their own as family or a friend before you classify them.
5. 5medium涉及分數: 3Adult Service Users

   Stopping at three or four stages of the six-stage care planning cycle instead of covering assessment, planning, implementation, monitoring, evaluation and modification.

   如何避免: Write the six stage names down first and work through them in order, rather than recalling stages as they come to mind.
6. 6medium涉及分數: 3Physiology of health and illness

   Giving a weak physiological explanation of Type 1 versus Type 2 diabetes that does not distinguish autoimmune beta cell destruction from insulin resistance or reduced secretion.

   如何避免: Learn the mechanism, not just the symptom list: Type 1 is the immune system destroying insulin-producing cells, Type 2 is the body's cells no longer responding properly to the insulin it does produce.
7. 7medium涉及分數: 2Physiology of health and illness

   Believing reflex actions involve conscious processing in the brain, rather than the spinal reflex arc bypassing the brain entirely.

   如何避免: State explicitly that the signal travels to the spinal cord and back without reaching the brain, that is what makes a reflex fast.
8. 8high涉及分數: 3Quality of written communication

   Losing Quality of Written Communication marks in Levels of Response answers through disjointed structure, no clear paragraphing, and missing specialist terminology.

   如何避免: Plan each extended answer in paragraphs before you write, and use the correct specialist term, such as reablement or direct payments, on first mention.