Section B - Writing - GCSE English Language Higher

Section B:writing 

• Section B of the non-fiction texts GCSE English Paper requires you to produce two writing tasks. 
• The first is likely to ask you to inform, explain or describe (or a combination) and will be a 16 mark question to be answered in 25 minutes. 
• The second is more likely to ask you persuade or argue and will be a 24 mark question to be answered in 35 minutes. 
• Both questions will be testing the general quality of your writing, the skills being tested are the following: the way you generate and use ideas, your structure and paragraphing, the variety of your sentences and vocabulary, and the accuracy of your punctuation and spelling. 

Writing to describe and explain markscheme

How to get A/A*

Question 5

Question 6

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