Command Terms

If you did A-level Physics, you'll know this one. Command terms are the words that tell you to write a specific expression, run a specific procedure, or take a specific action.

The journal entries you want label each move in your work with the command term that fired it: evaluate, solve, show, determine, deduce, justify, sketch, state. Each demands a different level of rigour. Tag the move, then write the one-line WHY underneath. That's what a command-term journal entry looks like.

But solving a TMUA question is never one move — it's a chain of them, fired in the right order, each one triggered by the blocks of information in front of you. Drill that chain until it fires on its own and it stops being a sequence of decisions you sweat over and becomes a single reflex. "Command" makes it sound rigid, as if there's one fixed route you must take — but that's rarely the case. That reflex is a reaction circuit.