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For my reference 5:38 evaluation 8:27 how many evaluation points 11:33 u should argue for 13:09 14:29 16:12 example (Text A) 19:55 text B 28:21 Cambridge report 36:51 mature writing 39:06 probe + should be lively writing Descriptive writing 45:47 smth shifts in the third paragraph 54:15 use more original content 55:09 use consistent tenses
I cannot tell you how much this has helped me. Thanks to you, I just received an A* for First Language English! I hope that you could continue to post more tips and insights.
My question is, for the descriptive piece, you talk about how we should describe in more or less a third persons POV, but is it acceptable to write one in first person? Eg: visiting a bookshop, describing the weather and the outwards appearance of the bookshop, zooming into what you see in the bookshop, and talking about how emotional and meaningful that bookshop is to the writer, then looping back to leaving the bookshop very late, having spent so much time in there without realising. Contrast could be created between the horrible, hostile weather outside and the soothing, welcoming ambiance inside the bookshop/library to further accentuate the emotional feel inside the library. What do you think?
Of course, my descriptive structure is just a suggestion of one way you could approach creative writing. There's no singular right way. Your description idea sounds lovely and like you're making a lot of choices for deliberate effect - that's an A grade skill! Best of luck!
It depends on your particular skillset. Which one do you usually get better feedback from your teacher? My personal opinion is that it's a little bit easier to write a high quality description under timed exam pressure. Narratives require quite a lot of imagination and a wide variety of skills: characterisation, writing great dialogue, describing settings, creating an effective climax.
im here to say thank you so much! i got an A* in FLE english! your tips were really helpful and it really prevented me from writing unnecessary, time consuming answers
Im doing my paper 2 tomorrow and this is so helpful! I have one question though, for narratives i heard gore and violent ideas are not marked or not allowed or something. What if I wrote something subtly aggressive or sad, like for out of time while practicing i wrote about a brother whos been taking care of his little sister for years since their parents passed and he signed up for a corrupt dystopian game show and had to get through a series of tweaked and unfair challenges under the clock and if he wins he gets a huge sum of money but if he loses he will lose something very dear to him and as he got closer to the end he began to hear the cries and screams of his sister (i didnt describe if she was being tortured or something) and then the clock ticked faster and faster to entertain the viewers and increase the intensity of the game show while the brother was ready to collapse under the pressure. He eventually runs out of time and well, loses his sister. But that was implied and not explicitly said. Is this too vulgar of a theme?
That's okay! It's only if your gore becomes too extreme and the examiner gets worried about your wellbeing, then they'd have to report it. I also recommend this because it can lead to lazy story ideas because most students jump straight to a murder story but this isn't that original. Yours sounds quite unique though. Best of luck!
I have my paper 2 tomorrow. For the past 2 months, I have been practicing the papers. But I dint get scores as I expected. But now, after watching videos, I got an A* in practice papers. For gods sake, I’m also expecting an A*. I appreciate your efforts for teaching us this. Thank you so much to make me improved and stay confident for my exam tomorrow. Thank you so much for your support mam
@@Anya-xb9mx yes! The prompts aren’t that strict. E.g. if you don’t get around to saying the prompt, you don’t get marked down. So if you’re just changing a pronoun, it’s fine 😊
i have a question about narrative writing. If i want to write my story in first person and keep "I" as the main character, is it alright if i mention their name as a dialogue from other characters, and specify their age, gender etc in the first para?
@@jwet1 yes, that's okay but try to do it subtly and realistically. E.g. "Manny!" my mother scolded me, voice sharp as a whip. "You better get your skinny behind down here now and explain why I just got a call from your teacher saying you skipped school today." From this, I know the character's name is Manny, likely a boy, skinny and school age, probably a teenager to be skipping school, rebellious... But scared of his mum
@@watchitznow3597 yes by prompt, I mean the question. If you wrote a random story, not related at all to the questions, you would not lose any marks. You're marked strictly according to the mark scheme, which doesn't address 'answers the question'. You'd just be marked for the quality of your story as normal.
So say you're doing a narrative, and dont follow the prompt EX: ' Write a story about a girl going to school ' and you write a story about something else, completely irrelevant, like about a kid going to a zoo, you can still get very high marks? as long as its well written and contains a climax?
Yep! Nowhere on the mark scheme does it say that you've answered the prompt. You're marked for the story you have written. It's always good to try to add it in and tweak your story if possible but if you ran out of time and didn't get to the prompt, no big deal.
I would advise not to do so unless it is clearly and thoroughly fiction, Cambridge may withhold your results and do long background checks to make sure it is fully fictional
Hello! First of all, this is my dad’s account. Second, do you know by any chance if the analysis of paper 2 in English is the same as in Spanish? or if something changes? Because I have my Spanish paper 2 exam in two days and I don’t really know if Cambridge expects me to do the same as in English. The questions in both papers are the same
Can i exceed the word limit for all others writings except for summary writing . I usually go over 100+ words for writer effect and 150+ words for extended writings. And 500-800 words for paper 2 narrative one? Is that alright? Do i need to wary about the word limit? Do exmainer redue marks for lenghty writings?
implicit is what it can possibly mean, but not directly said. if i say im hungry, thats explicit, but the implicit meaning is that i havent eaten for a while
Hi, I would like to clarify for Question 1 on what you mean when you say Cambridge prefers one perspective over the other. What happens if we favour the wrong side? And what if the question asks to write the advantages and disadvantages? Do we then write with a neutral tone?
@@Anya-xb9mx they can favour one side more than the other - look carefully at the question. E.g. If it says, write to your boss to explain why staff SHOULD listen to podcasts, this is in favour. If there's no clue in the question, then write a balanced response ☺️
This video helped me so much, but I do have 1 question. When we looked at the differences between descriptive and narrative, the slide said that the descriptive is more of a photograph and the narrative is like a film. Then(for decriptive writing) how can we show time passes like when you said at the start of the going inside the coffee shop and end the day by circling back where the sign is flipped. In this case, it's not much of a photograph, is it? Or how can we achieve something like this without making it seem like a film?
By that, I mean that nothing happens in terms of plot, but time can pass and people can move in and out of the frame. E.g. Cambridge have many past paper questions along the lines of "describe the sky as it turns from day to night", in which obviously something would change. The key thing is not to have characterisation, plot, dialogue - features of story writing :) Hope that helps & thanks for watching!
For the point in the general advice for descriptive writing where you said avoid writing dialogue or actions happening, does that only apply for actions of the viewer themselves or can you not describe the actions of people around? For my mock i did a desceiptive writing about smth like a person in a concert and i went really deep into the people around her and the various types of crowds within all those people and i did get a decent grade but ever since i wrote it ive been wondering if the examiner would mind that sort of writing
Thank you for pointing out to me - I forgot! Here's the links: Question Paper: pastpapers.papacambridge.com/viewer/caie/igcse-english-0500-2023-may-june-0500-s23-qp-12-pdf-0500-s23-qp-13-pdf-0500-s23-qp-21-pdf 🔗 Texts Insert: pastpapers.papacambridge.com/viewer/caie/igcse-english-0500-2023-may-june-0500-s23-er-pdf-0500-s23-gt-pdf-0500-s23-in-11-pdf-0500-s23-in-12-pdf-0500-s23-in-13-pdf-0500-s23-in-21-pdf 🔗 Mark Scheme: pastpapers.papacambridge.com/viewer/caie/igcse-english-0500-2023-may-june-0500-s23-er-pdf-0500-s23-gt-pdf-0500-s23-in-11-pdf-0500-s23-in-12-pdf-0500-s23-in-13-pdf-0500-s23-in-21-pdf-0500-s23-in-22-pdf-0500-s23-in-23-pdf-0500-s23-ms-11-pdf-0500-s23-ms-12-pdf-0500-s23-ms-13-pdf-0500-s23-ms-21-pdf 🔗
hi Miss! can you please tell me how i will be marked for my paper 1 if i failed to cover the third bullet point in Q3 under timed conditions? is it still possible to achieve an A*? i am preparing for my paper 2 tomorrow, a bit nervous:)
It's really hard to reassure you of that without seeing your paper or knowing the grade boundaries. It will obviously affect your reading mark for Paper 1, but the grade boundaries are often low, e.g. 55/80 for an A so you could lose some marks and still get a good grade overall. Best of luck prepping for your Paper 2! :)
Hey Margaret! They should all be out of 80. Is it possible you're doing a practice from a different syllabus like the English O Level? If you let me know the code of your paper I can tell you. It's usually on the front page and then on the very bottom of every other page in small writing. Should look something like 0500/W21
@@margarethnyamushonongora7522 Yes it should be out of eighty. What year is the past paper from? Older past papers from before 2020 followed a different format so maybe that's why?
Hey! So evaluation is the probing, examining and challenging of implicit ideas within the texts. OFTEN this can take the form of a counterargument, but it could also be developing or questioning an idea. Most of the time it isn't balanced, e.g. in November the argument was entirely one sided for the agree side. But on occasion it can be more balanced and have ideas from both texts. Firstly, read your question carefully to see if it's pushing you to support a particular side. E.g. the one in November was "Write a letter to your boss to PURSUADE him that you SHOULD be allowed to listen to podcasts". After that, I recommend that you read both texts and highlight them for the explicit arguments the texts are making. If there's one side you're arguing for, then as you go through the texts, consider why any counterarguments the text is making against your side may be wrong and why. Evaluation is just the idea that as you're discussing the pros and cons, you're not just summarising the explicit information that the text told you, but evaluating the implicit information too. If you just summarise and generally say that you agree/disagree then that isn't evaluative so you're capped at a maximum of 9/15 reading marks. I'm perhaps oversimplifying when I say "counterargument" to mean evaluation, but often that is what the evaluation marks are on the mark scheme. It's finding those logical fallacies, holes in their points, or ideas that they haven't yet explicitly said, only hinted towards. Here are my videos where I discuss this in more detail. I recommend watching the "write with me" one in particular as I talk you through my process: * Write with me: th-cam.com/video/Qoy-uV4nMXA/w-d-xo.html * Directed Writing explained: th-cam.com/video/lDhh_icsNTg/w-d-xo.html * Paper 2 Tips and Tricks: th-cam.com/video/yVgzJImdLzo/w-d-xo.html
Hi! I've got 2 questions regarding 0500 paper 2. I'd be delighted if anyone could help me with those. 1. For question 1 (directed writing), what happens if the student wrote a letter but the question has stated them to write a speech for example? Will their text still be graded even if it's a totally different format? 2. For composition, the question sometimes states to write a story that involves the phrase "so and so" but the student does not include that specific phrase. What would be the ruling on that? Looking forward to some helpful answers 🙏🏼🌸
Hello! 1. Yes, you would still get a mark but your mark would be reduced for having an incorrect register for your format. E.g. a speech has a different register (tone, style) to a magazine article. You'd still be credited for your great vocab, sentencing, punctuation and accuracy of your writing. I'd expect it might move you down at most one band to where you'd otherwise be as "band of best fit". 2. If you don't include the specific phrase or answer the task, there's no penalty. You will be marked based on the quality of your writing and effectiveness of your story. Nowhere in the mark scheme does it say "answers the exam prompt", so your story would be marked just like any other.
@@jaskiraatshah9445 opinion is just you saying what you think generally about the topic, whereas evaluation is noticing or expanding an implicit idea in the text. So opinion, "I think school uniforms should be banned and this would make most students happier." Evaluation might be noticing the text says school uniforms are cheaper and then you could evaluate, "Cheaper still doesn't mean cheap, with uniform being an added expense for families."
@@Taughtly ohhhhhh okay!!! when I was attempting your question for directed writing - I mistakenly wrote about an opinion in detail that had in mind. that opinion could be successfully read as an evaluation as it had similar points to those that are in " 25:55 " 🙂🥲🥲
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praying to the Cambridge gods i will 10:57
Watching this one day before the exam
And me
me too victory
4hrs till my exam
3hrs to my exam lol i just hope its not a letter
Edit: 3hrs after my exam and it was an article🙂
1 hr before exam💀
For my reference
5:38 evaluation
8:27 how many evaluation points
11:33 u should argue for
13:09
14:29
16:12 example (Text A)
19:55 text B
28:21 Cambridge report
36:51 mature writing
39:06 probe
+ should be lively writing
Descriptive writing
45:47 smth shifts in the third paragraph
54:15 use more original content
55:09 use consistent tenses
this is incredible you deserve so much more hype!
I couldn't tell by words how much your video has helped me go through my 0500 paper. Now it's in gods hand to whether or not I get my A*
I am sure you will do well :) So was May June 2024 the paper you took?
what did you get???
I love your style of teaching and it helps me so much
I cannot tell you how much this has helped me. Thanks to you, I just received an A* for First Language English! I hope that you could continue to post more tips and insights.
Nice video!
Do you have any tips for finding maximum content points? I seem to have a problem finding all of them
YOU ARE A GODDESS!
My question is, for the descriptive piece, you talk about how we should describe in more or less a third persons POV, but is it acceptable to write one in first person? Eg: visiting a bookshop, describing the weather and the outwards appearance of the bookshop, zooming into what you see in the bookshop, and talking about how emotional and meaningful that bookshop is to the writer, then looping back to leaving the bookshop very late, having spent so much time in there without realising.
Contrast could be created between the horrible, hostile weather outside and the soothing, welcoming ambiance inside the bookshop/library to further accentuate the emotional feel inside the library. What do you think?
Of course, my descriptive structure is just a suggestion of one way you could approach creative writing. There's no singular right way.
Your description idea sounds lovely and like you're making a lot of choices for deliberate effect - that's an A grade skill!
Best of luck!
Should we go with descriptive or narrative, which one is more scoring
It depends on your particular skillset. Which one do you usually get better feedback from your teacher?
My personal opinion is that it's a little bit easier to write a high quality description under timed exam pressure. Narratives require quite a lot of imagination and a wide variety of skills: characterisation, writing great dialogue, describing settings, creating an effective climax.
im here to say thank you so much! i got an A* in FLE english! your tips were really helpful and it really prevented me from writing unnecessary, time consuming answers
any tips??
Hi! Can you please give a deeper explanation on what are evaluation points exactly?
this is very nice and helpful Ms. Thank you!
Glad you enjoyed :)
Im doing my paper 2 tomorrow and this is so helpful! I have one question though, for narratives i heard gore and violent ideas are not marked or not allowed or something. What if I wrote something subtly aggressive or sad, like for out of time while practicing i wrote about a brother whos been taking care of his little sister for years since their parents passed and he signed up for a corrupt dystopian game show and had to get through a series of tweaked and unfair challenges under the clock and if he wins he gets a huge sum of money but if he loses he will lose something very dear to him and as he got closer to the end he began to hear the cries and screams of his sister (i didnt describe if she was being tortured or something) and then the clock ticked faster and faster to entertain the viewers and increase the intensity of the game show while the brother was ready to collapse under the pressure. He eventually runs out of time and well, loses his sister. But that was implied and not explicitly said. Is this too vulgar of a theme?
That's okay! It's only if your gore becomes too extreme and the examiner gets worried about your wellbeing, then they'd have to report it.
I also recommend this because it can lead to lazy story ideas because most students jump straight to a murder story but this isn't that original. Yours sounds quite unique though.
Best of luck!
I just had an idea of describe a buildiing that looks like an office from outside but is a weed growing farm once you go inside
언니 너무 사랑해요 진짜 짱짱!!!!!!! You're the best!! Watching your videos make me feel so comfortable. Thanks a lot!!!!!!!!
I have my paper 2 tomorrow. For the past 2 months, I have been practicing the papers. But I dint get scores as I expected. But now, after watching videos, I got an A* in practice papers. For gods sake, I’m also expecting an A*. I appreciate your efforts for teaching us this. Thank you so much to make me improved and stay confident for my exam tomorrow. Thank you so much for your support mam
Miss 24:29 for explicit do I make 1 para for text A and another for Text B I am so confused can u please explain how to structure them
I now have the confidence that im gonna ace my exam!! THANK YOU SO MUCH!!!!!
I watched this before my exam and I got a 92 tysm!!
i have my p2 tomorrow can please give some tips how to start a narrative?
How did it go any tips if you have could you tell me pls
Hi, if the prompt says to include the words “….I realised….” does that mean the story needs to be in first person
@@Anya-xb9mx nope, could be dialogue someone says 😊
@ ok thanks! But can I also say it in third person like ‘she realised’
@@Anya-xb9mx yes! The prompts aren’t that strict. E.g. if you don’t get around to saying the prompt, you don’t get marked down. So if you’re just changing a pronoun, it’s fine 😊
i have a question about narrative writing. If i want to write my story in first person and keep "I" as the main character, is it alright if i mention their name as a dialogue from other characters, and specify their age, gender etc in the first para?
@@jwet1 yes, that's okay but try to do it subtly and realistically.
E.g. "Manny!" my mother scolded me, voice sharp as a whip. "You better get your skinny behind down here now and explain why I just got a call from your teacher saying you skipped school today."
From this, I know the character's name is Manny, likely a boy, skinny and school age, probably a teenager to be skipping school, rebellious... But scared of his mum
@@Taughtly ohhh that helps a lot thank youu
Where is the link for the full past paper?
At 1:04:30, may I know what you mean by don't have to follow the prompt, cause I the question asks us to answer the questions (which is the prompt)?
@@watchitznow3597 yes by prompt, I mean the question. If you wrote a random story, not related at all to the questions, you would not lose any marks. You're marked strictly according to the mark scheme, which doesn't address 'answers the question'. You'd just be marked for the quality of your story as normal.
Thanks so much for all your contributions
Thank you! :)
So say you're doing a narrative, and dont follow the prompt EX: ' Write a story about a girl going to school ' and you write a story about something else, completely irrelevant, like about a kid going to a zoo, you can still get very high marks? as long as its well written and contains a climax?
Yep! Nowhere on the mark scheme does it say that you've answered the prompt. You're marked for the story you have written. It's always good to try to add it in and tweak your story if possible but if you ran out of time and didn't get to the prompt, no big deal.
i think it would be best to stick to the prompt just to be safe
Why is everyone scoring good grades except me 5 are left for my paper pls help me get grades
Could you pls explain how to create interesting introduction or setting at the start of story ?
Great idea for a video! I'll add to my list :)
@@Taughtly I can't log in.
I have a question. Can we write about murder/ horror in the narrative?? I’ve heard some people say Cambridge is against that. Let me know please
I think any genre is accepted but it should be more of a thriller as murder/horror could be too gory and extreme
I would advise not to do so unless it is clearly and thoroughly fiction, Cambridge may withhold your results and do long background checks to make sure it is fully fictional
THANK YOU
Hello! First of all, this is my dad’s account. Second, do you know by any chance if the analysis of paper 2 in English is the same as in Spanish? or if something changes? Because I have my Spanish paper 2 exam in two days and I don’t really know if Cambridge expects me to do the same as in English. The questions in both papers are the same
Can i exceed the word limit for all others writings except for summary writing . I usually go over 100+ words for writer effect and 150+ words for extended writings. And 500-800 words for paper 2 narrative one?
Is that alright? Do i need to wary about the word limit? Do exmainer redue marks for lenghty writings?
miss so explicit ideas are basically from the text and implicit ideas are ur counterarguments
implicit is what it can possibly mean, but not directly said. if i say im hungry, thats explicit, but the implicit meaning is that i havent eaten for a while
@@externalz9889 thank you
Hi, I would like to clarify for Question 1 on what you mean when you say Cambridge prefers one perspective over the other. What happens if we favour the wrong side? And what if the question asks to write the advantages and disadvantages? Do we then write with a neutral tone?
@@Anya-xb9mx they can favour one side more than the other - look carefully at the question. E.g. If it says, write to your boss to explain why staff SHOULD listen to podcasts, this is in favour.
If there's no clue in the question, then write a balanced response ☺️
Oh ok thanks. Do you have videos that have model answers?
@Anya-xb9mx yes ☺️ just search Taughtly directed writing. I have two, a lesson and an example walkthrough
This video helped me so much, but I do have 1 question. When we looked at the differences between descriptive and narrative, the slide said that the descriptive is more of a photograph and the narrative is like a film. Then(for decriptive writing) how can we show time passes like when you said at the start of the going inside the coffee shop and end the day by circling back where the sign is flipped. In this case, it's not much of a photograph, is it? Or how can we achieve something like this without making it seem like a film?
By that, I mean that nothing happens in terms of plot, but time can pass and people can move in and out of the frame. E.g. Cambridge have many past paper questions along the lines of "describe the sky as it turns from day to night", in which obviously something would change. The key thing is not to have characterisation, plot, dialogue - features of story writing :) Hope that helps & thanks for watching!
Got it! Thank you so much! 🙏
23:35 your earings are so pretty
For the point in the general advice for descriptive writing where you said avoid writing dialogue or actions happening, does that only apply for actions of the viewer themselves or can you not describe the actions of people around? For my mock i did a desceiptive writing about smth like a person in a concert and i went really deep into the people around her and the various types of crowds within all those people and i did get a decent grade but ever since i wrote it ive been wondering if the examiner would mind that sort of writing
Actions of people around you are fine so long as your narrator doesn't interact with them.
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miss so explicit is always ideas from the text and your implicit ideas are basically you counterarguments in ur own words right?
Essentially, yes! Explicit is something you could highlight in the text. Implicit is counterarguments, challenging, probing or examining ideas.
@@Taughtly thank you
alsoo you said you linked the texts in the description but I can't find them :)
Thank you for pointing out to me - I forgot!
Here's the links:
Question Paper: pastpapers.papacambridge.com/viewer/caie/igcse-english-0500-2023-may-june-0500-s23-qp-12-pdf-0500-s23-qp-13-pdf-0500-s23-qp-21-pdf 🔗
Texts Insert: pastpapers.papacambridge.com/viewer/caie/igcse-english-0500-2023-may-june-0500-s23-er-pdf-0500-s23-gt-pdf-0500-s23-in-11-pdf-0500-s23-in-12-pdf-0500-s23-in-13-pdf-0500-s23-in-21-pdf 🔗
Mark Scheme: pastpapers.papacambridge.com/viewer/caie/igcse-english-0500-2023-may-june-0500-s23-er-pdf-0500-s23-gt-pdf-0500-s23-in-11-pdf-0500-s23-in-12-pdf-0500-s23-in-13-pdf-0500-s23-in-21-pdf-0500-s23-in-22-pdf-0500-s23-in-23-pdf-0500-s23-ms-11-pdf-0500-s23-ms-12-pdf-0500-s23-ms-13-pdf-0500-s23-ms-21-pdf 🔗
hi, does the evaluation always have to be on the mark scheme or can examiners credit ones not in the mark schem
They can credit not on the mark scheme if they feel like it's an evaluative point in response to an implicit idea in the texts.
hi Miss! can you please tell me how i will be marked for my paper 1 if i failed to cover the third bullet point in Q3 under timed conditions? is it still possible to achieve an A*? i am preparing for my paper 2 tomorrow, a bit nervous:)
It's really hard to reassure you of that without seeing your paper or knowing the grade boundaries. It will obviously affect your reading mark for Paper 1, but the grade boundaries are often low, e.g. 55/80 for an A so you could lose some marks and still get a good grade overall. Best of luck prepping for your Paper 2! :)
Hi ma'am. Why are some papers 2 out of 50 some and others out of 80. What's the difference. Please advise. Thanks much.
Hey Margaret! They should all be out of 80. Is it possible you're doing a practice from a different syllabus like the English O Level? If you let me know the code of your paper I can tell you. It's usually on the front page and then on the very bottom of every other page in small writing. Should look something like 0500/W21
@@TaughtlyThanks ma'am. The code is IGCSE 0500 and it should be of 80. I honestly appreciate 🎉🎉🎉🎉
@@margarethnyamushonongora7522 Yes it should be out of eighty. What year is the past paper from? Older past papers from before 2020 followed a different format so maybe that's why?
@@Taughtly yes it was older.
Can u explain to me evlauation I didn’t understand
Hey! So evaluation is the probing, examining and challenging of implicit ideas within the texts. OFTEN this can take the form of a counterargument, but it could also be developing or questioning an idea. Most of the time it isn't balanced, e.g. in November the argument was entirely one sided for the agree side. But on occasion it can be more balanced and have ideas from both texts.
Firstly, read your question carefully to see if it's pushing you to support a particular side. E.g. the one in November was "Write a letter to your boss to PURSUADE him that you SHOULD be allowed to listen to podcasts".
After that, I recommend that you read both texts and highlight them for the explicit arguments the texts are making. If there's one side you're arguing for, then as you go through the texts, consider why any counterarguments the text is making against your side may be wrong and why.
Evaluation is just the idea that as you're discussing the pros and cons, you're not just summarising the explicit information that the text told you, but evaluating the implicit information too. If you just summarise and generally say that you agree/disagree then that isn't evaluative so you're capped at a maximum of 9/15 reading marks.
I'm perhaps oversimplifying when I say "counterargument" to mean evaluation, but often that is what the evaluation marks are on the mark scheme. It's finding those logical fallacies, holes in their points, or ideas that they haven't yet explicitly said, only hinted towards.
Here are my videos where I discuss this in more detail. I recommend watching the "write with me" one in particular as I talk you through my process:
* Write with me: th-cam.com/video/Qoy-uV4nMXA/w-d-xo.html
* Directed Writing explained: th-cam.com/video/lDhh_icsNTg/w-d-xo.html
* Paper 2 Tips and Tricks: th-cam.com/video/yVgzJImdLzo/w-d-xo.html
Hi! I've got 2 questions regarding 0500 paper 2. I'd be delighted if anyone could help me with those.
1. For question 1 (directed writing), what happens if the student wrote a letter but the question has stated them to write a speech for example? Will their text still be graded even if it's a totally different format?
2. For composition, the question sometimes states to write a story that involves the phrase "so and so" but the student does not include that specific phrase. What would be the ruling on that?
Looking forward to some helpful answers 🙏🏼🌸
Hello!
1. Yes, you would still get a mark but your mark would be reduced for having an incorrect register for your format. E.g. a speech has a different register (tone, style) to a magazine article. You'd still be credited for your great vocab, sentencing, punctuation and accuracy of your writing. I'd expect it might move you down at most one band to where you'd otherwise be as "band of best fit".
2. If you don't include the specific phrase or answer the task, there's no penalty. You will be marked based on the quality of your writing and effectiveness of your story. Nowhere in the mark scheme does it say "answers the exam prompt", so your story would be marked just like any other.
@@Taughtly This was very helpful. Thank you!
3 Hours before my exam am i cooked?
what was the question?
Wrote my IGCSE FLE P2 today
Hoping to get good marks
what was the question?
Many thanks hey😊
You're welcome 😊
for directed writing: can you gain marks just by writing your opinions based on the interpreted text and till what limit🤨🤨🤨
@@jaskiraatshah9445 yes, you can get up to 9/15 marks for writing about the topic with details from the text, giving your opinion on the topic 😊
@@Taughtly but then how would you ensure that you change those opinions to an evaluation like you said to get 10-12😬
@@jaskiraatshah9445 opinion is just you saying what you think generally about the topic, whereas evaluation is noticing or expanding an implicit idea in the text. So opinion, "I think school uniforms should be banned and this would make most students happier." Evaluation might be noticing the text says school uniforms are cheaper and then you could evaluate, "Cheaper still doesn't mean cheap, with uniform being an added expense for families."
@@Taughtly ohhhhhh okay!!!
when I was attempting your question for directed writing - I mistakenly wrote about an opinion in detail that had in mind.
that opinion could be successfully read as an evaluation as it had similar points to those that are in " 25:55 "
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Watching this on the day of the exam
what was the question?
I'm writing my paper 2 on Monday
Same here😭😭
me as well
Did you sit it ? How did it go?
Same,
Which year did this appear as an exam?
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