What you MUST do

Read the instructions carefully

Plan your writing before you start doing it

Include all the information you are required to

Write your answer on the answer sheet

Order the information in the sequence that is common in discursive writing in English, including an introduction, a development and a conclusion

Support arguments with examples or other evidence

Link the ideas and paragraphs

Keep to the timing – 40 minutes

Check the composition after writing – for style, completeness, linking, logical structuring of arguments and accuracy of language

What you MUSTN’T do

Copy from other people’s work

Write less than the required number of words (250 words)

Leave out any required information

Write illegibly

Include information not asked for