{"id":66816,"date":"2021-03-15T17:23:56","date_gmt":"2021-03-15T17:23:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.trainingbytesize.com\/?p=66816"},"modified":"2022-11-10T17:07:18","modified_gmt":"2022-11-10T17:07:18","slug":"apm-pmq-command-verbs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.trainingbytesize.com\/apm-pmq-command-verbs\/","title":{"rendered":"APM PMQ command verbs and the marking process"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>APM PMQ command verbs<\/h2>\n<p>If you&#8217;re studying for your <a href=\"https:\/\/www.trainingbytesize.com\/product\/apm-pmq-bok7-course\/\">APM PMQ<\/a> you will definitely want clarity on what the command verbs are and how these are marked in preparation for your exam.<\/p>\n<p>The following session from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.apm.org.uk\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">APM<\/a>, with guest presenter <a href=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/james-ware-a8756b10a\/?originalSubdomain=uk\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">James Ware<\/a> who is their Professional Standards Development Manager, will explain exactly what markers of the exam are looking for and put you in the best position for exam success.<\/p>\n<p>While APM held this session in 2020 when the Body of Knowledge 7th Edition was released, the content is incredibly useful and will be for the duration of BOK7.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/iUZDijkKB5I\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<h2>What are the APM PMQ\u00a0command verbs?<\/h2>\n<p>The following APM PMQ command verbs are used in the syllabus and in questions, the definition explained below below is taken from their <a href=\"https:\/\/www.apm.org.uk\/media\/43222\/pmq-assessment-specification.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Assessment Specification<\/a>:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Differentiate \u2192 Recognise or determine what makes something different.<\/li>\n<li>Describe \u2192 Give an account, including all the relevant characteristics, qualities and events.<\/li>\n<li>Explain \u2192 Give an account of the purpose(s) or reason(s).<\/li>\n<li>Interpret \u2192 Translate information\/data into another form to aid understanding, to demonstrate understanding or to inform a future action.<\/li>\n<li>Outline \u2192 Set out the main points\/characteristics.<\/li>\n<li>State \u2192 Express the details without elaboration.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>All questions for the PMQ assessment will be formed using the relevant command verbs.<\/p>\n<p>Please note that some differentiate questions may be formed as \u2018explain the difference between\u2026\u2019<\/p>\n<p>The full <a href=\"https:\/\/www.apm.org.uk\/media\/43222\/pmq-assessment-specification.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">APM PMQ Assessment Specification can be found here<\/a>, and the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.apm.org.uk\/media\/44830\/pmq_indicative-content_v3.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">APM PMQ Indicative Content can be found here<\/a>. There are also some <a href=\"https:\/\/www.apm.org.uk\/qualifications-and-training\/qualification-alignment-support\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">additional documents on the APM website<\/a> which you may find useful for your exam preparation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>APM PMQ command verbs If you&#8217;re studying for your APM PMQ you will definitely want clarity on what the command verbs are and how these are marked in preparation for your exam. The following session from APM, with guest presenter James Ware who is their Professional Standards Development Manager, will explain exactly what markers of the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":66821,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_bbp_topic_count":0,"_bbp_reply_count":0,"_bbp_total_topic_count":0,"_bbp_total_reply_count":0,"_bbp_voice_count":0,"_bbp_anonymous_reply_count":0,"_bbp_topic_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_reply_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_forum_subforum_count":0,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[155,72,47],"tags":[246,247],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.trainingbytesize.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66816"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.trainingbytesize.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.trainingbytesize.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.trainingbytesize.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.trainingbytesize.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=66816"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.trainingbytesize.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66816\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":94096,"href":"https:\/\/www.trainingbytesize.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66816\/revisions\/94096"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.trainingbytesize.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/66821"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.trainingbytesize.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=66816"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.trainingbytesize.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=66816"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.trainingbytesize.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=66816"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}