Easiest English paper I have ever done in my life.
Paper 1: Q4 - Power
Was a little tough to write a narrative on it. Wasted half an
hour brainstorming. Worked out fine but left me with 10 minutes for
the situational writing section.
The other four questions were somewhat managable at a glance,
the only thing is that most people tend to overwrite, leaving very
little time for situational writing (like myself).
Paper 1: Situational
Format does not matter. It never has, it never will. Address or
not, RE or not, it does not matter. I repeat.
FORMAT DOES NOT MATTER AS LONG AS IT IS A FEASIBLE AND
NICE-LOOKING FORMAT.
Tone, register, language and content do.
SBS n SMRT is correct. Simply writing
===============
Dear Past Pupil,
Content
Sign off
Head Prefect '09
Bla bla bla
===============
Will result in no marks being deducted for format issues.
And yes, Cambridge does recommend forgoing the addresses of
recipient and sender entirely.
The qustion itself is considered a formal letter, considering
you are writing to alumni whom are all older than yourself, as well
as the fact that you are a head prefect, and the letter itself
should contain an invitation. But it has elements of informal
letter in it as well.
Take note, at most, they minus up to three marks for format,
only if it is way off. Such as writing a recipient's address on a
brochure etc.
Screwing this one up, such as writing weird things in place of
an impossible "recipient's address" soon minus up to one or two
marks only. Relax.
Paper 2: Comprehension
Considering there were 4 marks worth of "write down the word"
questions, scoring anything below 16/25 means your distinction is
almost certainly gone due to the bell curve being shifted.
In other words, it was easy as hell.
Paper 2: Summary
Tricky. Tough to find the correct points.
The examples do not count as points.
"Dreams are interpreted via association" --> 1 mark
"when you dream of a shoe, it means you might be going on a
journey" --> 0 marks
They gave you paragraph 3 to 6 for a reason. Each paragraph has
at least 2 points.
This summary question is the only section of the entire English
Language O' Level I find difficult.
I was foolish enough to include the examples and wasted away 25
words or so, thus I only got 11 points onto my summary.
Hope I still can get A1.
GOOD LUCK FOR EMATHS TMR.
