I’m Lawrence Francis, Host of Interpreting Wine, welcoming you to a special episode focusing on the WSET Diploma D3 Theory Exam.  Today, Anne McHale MW covers the eight most commonly made mistakes based on her extensive analysis of recent examiners reports.  Anne offers examples of mistakes taken from past papers, and gives tips on how to address each of these. To follow the discussion I’d recommend accessing the October 2021 D3 exam from your Online Classroom and having this in front of you while you listen. I’ve included timestamps which can be used to navigate between the eight mistakes if you need to revisit or skip to any one of these.  Surely essential listening for you, friends, colleagues or classmates sitting the D3 theory exam in May 2023.  So please do share the direct episode link widely, which is interpretingwine.com/488 Enjoy! (00:00:08) Episode intro (00:01:18) D3 Theory background (00:04:08) Mistake #1: Not respecting the marking weightings give (00:10:30) Mistake #2: Candidate not including learnings from D1, D2 AND D3 (00:16:05) Mistake #3: Not structuring your answers logically (00:18:55) Mistake #4: Not including the right amount of detail in your answer (00:22:12) Mistake #5: Inadequate knowledge of lesser-known regions (00:25:10) Mistake #6: Not applying enough analysis in your answers (00:30:14) Mistake #7: Not answering the question properly (00:34:20) Mistake #8: Misspelling of key wine terms (00:36:20) Anne McHale’s Diplomatherapy Programme (00:40:50) Interpreting Wine Diplomatherapy Offer If you know someone who would is taking the D3 theory exam please share the direct link: www.interpretingwine.com/488 Intro and outro musicThe New Investorshttp://newinvestors.dk/Contact: glenn@velournet.dk GUEST CONTACT: Anne McHale, Diploma D3 theory special episode More info on Diplomatherapy: www.interpretingwine.com/diploma23 Date recorded: 11 Jan 2023