TO means "talk out". It means a student can snatch defeat from the jaws of victory by talking their way out of the mark if they begin to add more, incorrect or contradictory, information to an answer.
For example in A-Level Physics, there are 2 ways to calculate wavelength. If a student gives a correct response, but then begins to justify this with the use of the wrong equation, that's a "talk out" and will lose them the mark.