Edexcel Economcs: Need advice from past students

We've been told by our teacher, that we should define the key term in the question in any question before starting to answer the question. This seems like a ridiculous way of approaching a question I've looked past papers and in the mark scheme, it doesn't say anything about that.

Any advice from past students? (Or present ones that know)

Yes theres always at least 1 or 2 marks to be gained in every question just from definitions, especially in the AS units.

So is it best just to define the key terms at the start of a question?

Yeah definitely. Its the easiest way of picking up marks...

Are you all sure about this? I got an A* in IGCSE economics without following this definition method. It seems to repetitive and most questions dont ask for the a defenition and focus on someother variable, perhaps an analysis of an outcome of a decision. In those cases, i think providing a definition wasn't called for, so youre just wasting your time. But then again, I just started my AS level, so i may be wrong.

i am doing sameboard as you and our teacher said the same thing.... this is especially so with the "supported-choice" (i.e. multiple choice) micro ones i think...

I just noticed I did the exact same A levels as you lol

... and did you enjoy them? rewarding? difficult? how did you find those subjects? and how much work was 5 a-levels? sorry for the interrogation about all this...
what are you doing now then?

Yeah it was challenging but it was definitely worth all the extra work. I found Further Maths and Economics the hardest but if you put in the time you can definitely get good grades. I'm currently doing Physics at Imperial.