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- Subject: English
- AS: 90053
- Level: 1
- Credits: 3
- External
1.2 Produce formal writing
Assessment
- This is an external standard to be sat under examination conditions.
- You will write one essay of at least 250 words.
- There will be 8–10 different topics and you will choose one to write about.
- Choose a topic you are confident writing about and can support your ideas with accurate general knowledge to expand your statements.
- Some topics may be either a question, statement, photograph, or cartoon relating to an issue of interest.
- Use the space provided for planning before writing your essay in the answer booklet. This will help show evidence of structure and planning.
- If you are sitting all five external standards at this level you will have about 40 minutes to plan, write, and proofread your formal essay. You could plan your time like this:
- brainstorming 5–10 minutes
- writing 20–25 minutes
- review 10 minutes.
- You will not have access to a dictionary or a thesaurus.
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