What you MUST do

Read the instructions carefully

Plan your letter before writing it – thinking about why you are writing (purpose) and who you are writing to (audience)

Include all the information you are required to

Write your answer on the answer sheet

Order your information in the sequence that is common in semi-formal/formal letters in English

Link your ideas and paragraphs

Check your letter after writing – for style, completeness, linking, logic and accuracy of language

Keep to the timing – 20 minutes

What you MUSTN’T do

Copy from other people’s work

Write less than the required number of words (150 words)

Repeat task instructions in your writing

Write addresses in the letter

Leave out any required information