The student applies a strategy which is only partially useful. The student's strategy is not fully executed. The student starts the problem appropriately, but changes to an incorrect focus. The student recognizes the pattern or relationship, but expands it incorrectly. The skills and strategies lack a central focus and the details are sketchy or not present.
Strategies are random.
The student does not fully explore the problem looking for concepts, patterns or relationships. The student fails to see alternative solutions that the problem requires. The student gives a complete response with clear, coherent, unambiguous, and elegant explanations. The details fit and to make sense. One step flows to the next and shows organization.