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Question paper outline
Recall plus a short application item for each topic you list.
What this tool does
The question outline splits the topics you type on commas, semicolons, or new lines, keeps up to six, and writes two lines each. The first is a recall item: define or list one fact about that topic, marked as 2 marks in the rules text. The second is an application item: use the topic on a short example you write yourself, marked as 5 marks. The heading is the subject you typed. The closing line says to award marks only for points you decided in advance. If you type no topics, the rules text says to add topics and that the outline will not invent a syllabus, and the score is 30. With at least one topic the score is 80. Those mark figures are labels on the outline, not a board's scheme. Change them if your paper uses different marks.
How to use it
List topics you have already taught. Do not list a chapter you have not covered and expect items you can defend. Write the example for each application item yourself before the paper is printed. The tool leaves that example to you on purpose. Read the outline once for duplicates. Six topics produce twelve lines, which may be more than the time you have. Cut topics rather than asking the tool for a shorter paper it was not given.
Worked example
Subject “Accounts” and topics “journal, ledger”. The outline has a 2-mark recall on journal, a 5-mark application on journal, then the same pair for ledger. It does not write the model answer. An empty topic box returns the line that the outline will not invent a syllabus. Add “trial balance” only if you taught it. The jobs link on this page searches HiringBuddy for published roles matching “teacher”. An empty list means nothing published matched. It is not a comment on the wider market. A signed-in candidate can save the attempt on their profile. Saving is not an application, and it does not show the attempt to an employer. Employers see people who apply to their own jobs.
Questions
- Will it invent topics?
- No. An empty list asks you to add topics.
- Are the 2-mark and 5-mark labels official?
- No. They are labels in the draft. Change them to match the paper you are actually setting.
- How many topics does it keep?
- Up to six, in the order you typed them.