Do you know your command terms?

This command term requires you to recognise similarities & differences and the significance of these similarities and differences.

• Compare

• Define

• Discuss

• outline

This command term requires you to show, prove or defend, with reasoning & evidence, an argument, decision and/or point of view using given data and/or other information.

• Suggest

• Identify

• Justify

• Contrast

This command term requires you to provide characteristics, features & qualities of a given concept, opinion, situation, event, process, effect, argument, or experiment in an accurate way.

• Outline

• Describe

• Compare

• Predict

This command term requires you to ascertain the value or amount of; make a judgment using the information supplied, criteria and/or own knowledge & understanding to consider a logical argument and/or supporting evidence for & against different points, arguments, concepts, processes, opinions or other information.

• Describe

• Differentiate

• Outline

• Evaluate

This command term requires you to give a detailed account of why and/or how with reference to causes, effects, continuity, change, reasons or mechanisms; make the relationships between things evident.

• justify

• Outline

• Explain

• Name

This command term requires you to present a clear, considered & balanced argument or prose that identifies issues & shows the strengths & weaknesses of, or points for and against, one or more arguments, concepts, factors, hypotheses, narratives and/or opinions.

• Contrast

• Discuss

• Identify

• Differentiate

This command term requires you to recognise and name and/or select an event, feature, ingredient, element, speaker and/or part from a list or argument, or within a diagram, structure, or experiment.

• Identify

• Compare

• Explain

• Justify

This command term requires you to provide an overview or the main features of an argument, point of view, text, narrative, diagram or image.

• Differentiate

• Compare

• Outline

• Identify

This command term requires you to make clear the differences between two or more arguments, concepts, opinions, narratives, data points, trends and/or items.

• Name

• Distinguish

• Outline

• Compare

This command term requires you to identify components/elements and the significance of the relationship between them; draw out and relate implications; determine logic and reasonableness of information

• Analyse

• Name

• Distinguish

• Describe