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What? does a good Nebosch exam answer look like?

If you're watching this video on the Compasa eLearning platform, right down below, you've got a load of tutorials that are going to teach you how to write a good exam answer.

And we've got some exam masterclasses as well, which I highly recommend that you watch to see the process in action.

But before we get into the detail of that, I thought it would be useful to just show you what a good answer looks like, because here is the standard that I want you to aim towards.

I want you to try to produce something that at least looks like this.

Here we have a legal exam question, and this is for the UK National General Certificate.

But the international students can get an almost identical question referring to different law.

So, IGC students, this applies to you too.

under Section 2 of the Health and Safety at Work Etc. Act 1974.

Comment on how these duties may have been breached.

10 marks.

And then we have a stem which says, "Note, you should support your answer, where applicable, using relevant information from the scenario." Now, the steps that I've outlined,

the 12 steps to exam success, I'm going to show you how to answer that.

Let's just show you what a good answer would look like.

So here it is.

Take a good look at that.

And I'm going to point out what's good about it.

So the first thing that's good about it is that we have 12 different little answers that are made.

12. Now, why is that important?

Well, it's because it's a 10 mark question.

And we should always try to give more answers than there are marks available.

Because, say, if our first two or three or four answers are incorrect, giving some more answers gives us a chance to get a better result,

maybe even to get full marks.

always write more answers than there are marks available.

Notice the length of the answers as well.

Here we've got About two and a half lines, got two lines, two lines, two and a bit lines.

2 .5 lines, 2 .5 in a bit.

Two, two.

Two in a bit, two, and so on.

Yeah.

We need to aim to write.

about two to three lines per answer that we're giving.

So we're going to give a number of separate answers, each one making its own separate points.

And we're going to try and write that out and explain it in two to three lines.

Just a bit, nebosh are not counting your words.

Nebosh are not counting the number of lines that you write.

No examiner is going to read your answer, which is correct and a good answer,

and then say, No, they've not written it in two and a half lines as specified in the guidance.

I will not award this mark.

No examiner's saying that.

If it's a correct answer, if it's on the marking scheme, if it demonstrates the necessary level of understanding, you'll get that mark and it doesn't really matter

if you've written it in one line or 10 lines

but this advice

that i'm giving you it's just merely advice in my opinion two to three lines means

that you have enough room to make your point

and explain your point

and maybe chuck in an example from the scenario as is

requested by this question it says you should support your answer

where applicable using relevant information from the scenario it's very difficult to make a point and without at least writing two lines.

You might find that you write three lines, four lines, especially if you add in extra examples of things to support your point.

And that's okay, you're allowed to do that and I would even encourage you to do that where that is appropriate.

Notice also how each paragraph is numbered.

We've got one, two, three, because we are using the numbered bullet point function on our Word document here.

And again, a NEWASH examiner is not going to deduct marks because you haven't numbered them.

You don't have to number them.

It's just some advice that I'm giving you, because this helps you keep track of how many points you have made.

It just means you don't have to count them.

That's all.

So you're aiming to do more than 10

and it just saves you a bit of time because you don't have to count.

That's all.

That's what a good answer looks like.

And we haven't even gotten into the detail of what it actually says.

Just because it looks good doesn't mean it's correct.

It could all be wrong still.

But me as an examiner, when I look at that, I go, OK, this person has applied some good exam technique.

This is going to be very easy to mark.

I'll very quickly be able to see if this is correct or not correct.

Here we've got some bad technique.

Now what's good about it is that it is numbered and we've got a number of separate points being made.

But it really does lack any real explanation.

It's basically just chucking in just a couple of words and then some very, very brief notes as to what's going on in the scenario there.

I think this is not an answer.

This is an answer plan.

an answer plan basically a list of things the student wants to make it's not a full answer

if you study step seven of our 12 steps to exam success you'll you'll see that talks about creating an answer plan.

And this looks like an answer plan which has not been written out in full.

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Let's get back to the advice.

Let's look at another bad example.

Here it is.

Look at that.

Now what's bad about that?

Well, we can see that it's very short, can't we?

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Look, it's just very, very short.

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It's 56 words in total, you can see 56 words.

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Whereas what was the other one that we wrote here?

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If we just scroll up, what's the word count?

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And again, the word count doesn't matter.

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No examiner's counting your words to decide if they give you a mark or not.

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That's not how it works.

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But it's about the level of detail.

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This one was 360 words.

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360, it's about 30 words per point made.

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And so this just doesn't really have a lot of effort.

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We've got some bullet points.

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Okay.

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They're not numbered, but notice how there's not a lot being said.

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Breach of this, breach of that, breach of this.

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And then we've got this single paragraph, which is not linked to anything.

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And it's not going into a tremendous amount of detail.

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It's not linking these breaches to any detail at all.

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It's just listing the breaches.

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It's not commenting on the breaches.

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It's not explaining how these duties may have been breached.

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That's not good.

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And let's look at this one.

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My last example of what a bad answer looks like.

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This one, like a lot.

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A lot's been written here.

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A lot of words have been written there.

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Let's just look at the word count.

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Some effort's gone into writing that.

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160 words the same as before the exact same number of words as our good answer, but notice it's one big thing paragraph.

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It's an overwhelming paragraph.

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It's not broken up into any kind of structure.

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It's difficult to see where one point ends and one point begins.

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Like, at first you're talking about this duty being breached

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and then you're changing subjects and you're going to talk about this other thing being breached.

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And you talk about this issue and that issue.

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So the examiner will mark this.

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Now, don't get me wrong, you're not going to lose marks just because it's in a paragraph.

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No, it's not how it works.

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The examiner will read all of this and will give you marks where deserved.

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This could get full marks if this is making enough correct technical points,

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and it's demonstrating understanding, and it's linked to the scenario, and all of the good exam technique which I'm going to teach you.

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The problem with this big paragraph technique is that for you, when you're writing your answer, you might just start to just waffle

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and just start to list all kinds of problems and you may end up going off track.

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This is just you, essentially just vomiting a load of information.

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And when I read through the detail here, as I would have to as an examiner, when I read through the detail,

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What I see is that it doesn't really have much linked to the Health and Safety at Work Act.

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It's not really answering this question.

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It's just giving me a long list of problems.

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There's a little bit of a mention there, fantastic, and there's a little bit of a mention here, but there aren't many mentions of Haswa.

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It's basically just listing a load of problems issues and that is not answering the question.

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So I hope you found that useful.

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Just to recap, what does a good answer look like?

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A good answer?

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most of the time.

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Just bear in mind, some questions may allow you to give shorter answers.

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Some questions don't require references to the scenario.

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Some questions may allow you to just give shorter answers.

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And that's okay, you're not required to give two lines on every single question.

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Use some common sense.

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Read the question and answer that question.

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But let this set a standard for most Nibosh questions.

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Most Nibosh questions which are going to have something like this, where you have to discuss, you have to explain, you have to comment, you have to make some points,

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explain some points, using the scenario to back up what you were saying.

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That's the sort of thing that we're going to have to produce.

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There we go.

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Anyway, please go through the exam technique tutorials in depth and learn how to write something like that.

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And I'll get to see your work when you submit it in your mock exam questions. If...

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You're a compas of students.

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Anyway, leave that with you.

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If you've got any questions, please drop me a line in the comments below.

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Hey, sorry to interrupt the video.

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I hope you're finding this useful.

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If you want more information, we've got loads of free information on our YouTube channel.

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If you go into our channel playlists, you'll find a whole playlist called the 12 steps to smashing your NG1, IG1, Nibosh exam.

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And it'll go through the 12 step process that our students follow to get some of the highest pass rates in

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Compasa .co .uk, click on NEBOSH exam help

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and you'll also find study books that you can download for both the national and international general certificates.

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Vocabulario y notas de pronunciación para esta lección

Esta lección de conversación de nivel C1 se basa en el vídeo “What Does A Good NEBOSH Exam Answer Look Like? WATCH THIS!”. Las palabras que más se repiten: answer, mark, word, exam. Este vídeo tiene 177 frases y 2005 palabras para practicar shadowing. La parte hablada dura 10:56. El hablante habla rápido, unas 183 palabras por minuto, así que espera sonidos enlazados y reducidos. El 88 % de las palabras está entre las 3.000 más comunes del inglés; conviene repasar el resto antes de empezar.

Vocabulario clave de este vídeo

Las 15 palabras más avanzadas del vídeo, con su pronunciación y significado:

Palabra	Pronunciación	Significado
examiner sustantivo	/əɡˈzæmɪnɚ/	examinador
paragraph sustantivo	/ˈpæɹəɡɹæf/	párrafo, parágrafo
tutorial sustantivo	/ˌtjuːˈtɔːɹɪəl/	tutoría, tutorial
playlist sustantivo	/ˈpleɪˌlɪst/	lista de reproducción
interrupt verbo	/ˌɪntəˈɹʌpt/	interrumpir, interromper
mock verbo	/mɑk/	imitar, remedar
overwhelm verbo	/ˌoʊ.vɚˈwɛlm/	apabullar, arrollar
waffle sustantivo	/ˈwɑf.əl/	waffle, wafle
vomit verbo	/ˈvɑmɪt/	vomitar, devolver
expire verbo	/ɪkˈspaɪə(ɹ)/	vencer, caducar
tutor sustantivo	/ˈtjuːtəː/	tutor, protutor
specify verbo	/ˈspɛs.əˌfaɪ/	especificar, circunstanciar
scroll sustantivo	/skɹoʊl/	rollo, pergamino
outline sustantivo	/ˈaʊtlaɪn/	contorno
incorrect adjetivo	/ˌɪn.kəˈɹɛkt/	incorrecto

Phrasal verbs que vas a escuchar

Palabra	Significado
go through verbo	atravesar
back up verbo	retroceder, ciar
check out verbo	investigar, chequear
end up verbo	terminar, ir a parar
get back to verbo	responder / contestar (en un rato), volver / tornar a contactar
go off verbo	explotar
point out verbo	señalar, apuntar

Frases que vale la pena repetir

Frases cortas y completas del vídeo que puedes reutilizar en la conversación diaria:

You don't have to number them.
It just means you don't have to count them.
Here we've got some bad technique.
Let's get back to the advice.
If we just scroll up, what's the word count?

Gramática en este vídeo

Las estructuras que más usa el hablante, con las palabras exactas del vídeo:

Estructura	En el vídeo
Present perfect have/has + participio pasado — una acción pasada que sigue importando ahora	I've outlined · they've not written · you've written
Voz pasiva be + participio pasado — importa lo que ocurre, no quién lo hace	have been breached · are made · is numbered
Oraciones de relativo who / which + oración — información extra sobre una persona o cosa	answer, which is · plan which has · paragraph, which is

Pronunciación a tener en cuenta

El hablante usa 63 contracciones y formas reducidas, como you're, we've, don't. Dilas en su forma corta, tal como las oyes.

Sonidos difíciles para hispanohablantes:

s + consonante al inicio — sin añadir una “e” delante: specify /ˈspɛs.əˌfaɪ/, scroll /skɹoʊl/, smash /smæʃ/
/v/ — no es /b/: los dientes tocan el labio inferior: overwhelm /ˌoʊ.vɚˈwɛlm/, vomit /ˈvɑmɪt/

Cómo practicar con este vídeo

Escucha el vídeo entero una vez sin hablar y anota las palabras que no conoces.
Empieza a velocidad 0,75×, haz shadowing frase por frase y vuelve a la velocidad normal cuando te resulte fácil.
Grábate y compara con el original, prestando atención a palabras como examiner, paragraph, tutorial.

¿Qué es la Técnica de Shadowing?

Shadowing es una técnica de aprendizaje de idiomas respaldada por la ciencia, desarrollada originalmente para la formación de intérpretes profesionales y popularizada por el políglota Dr. Alexander Arguelles. El método es simple pero poderoso: escuchas audio en inglés nativo y lo repites en voz alta de inmediato, como una sombra que sigue al hablante con solo 1-2 segundos de retraso. A diferencia de la escucha pasiva o los ejercicios de gramática, el shadowing obliga a tu cerebro y músculos de la boca a procesar y reproducir simultáneamente patrones de habla reales. Las investigaciones muestran que mejora significativamente la precisión de la pronunciación, la entonación, el ritmo, el habla conectada, la comprensión auditiva y la fluidez al hablar, convirtiéndola en una de las metodologías más efectivas para la preparación del IELTS Speaking y la comunicación en inglés en el mundo real.

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