consequential marks

[nacho]

okay, i was thinking about this.
vcaa will give you a mark for a correct answer, right?
so if there is a massive question, which you do not know how to do the first part of a question. Could you just make up some stupid value, like x = 0 and use that throughout your whole thing to solve the rest of the question(s)? as opposed to leaving the whole paper out?
eg
the first step requires converting something to mol.
you do this:

find mol of x.
and u put, n(x) = 0

and then part ii)  was, hence find mol of y.
using stoich ratios, n(y) = 0

[eeps]

It's like Accounting as such. If you use a figure (albeit it's wrong) throughout the question, but you show the correct method/process required - then you'll get the marks. Though you would be deducted one mark for the incorrect figure you used to begin with. So in your example, you would just lose one mark for using x = 0 rather than the correct value (assuming that the correct method/process was used).