Some freebie practice questions

Try to keep all your answers to 40mins max, since this is all you’ll have in the exam. If you want to imagine there’s a (b) part asking for a reflection statement, then imagine that the (a) part is worth 12 marks and the (b) part 8 marks. Good luck!

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Compose a piece of imaginative or discursive writing that begins with the words: There is always a mother before a mother, and a king before a king. In your piece, use a technique which you have studied in a Module C text.

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Compose a piece of imaginative or discursive writing that begins with the words: There is always a mother before a mother, and a king before a king.

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Use this image to craft a central metaphor in a piece of imaginative, discursive or persuasive writing .

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We’re all cameos in someone else’s life, even if we’re the main characters of our own.

Use this idea in a discursive piece expressing your perspective about the relationships you have read about in ONE of your prescribed texts.

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A story should have a beginning, a middle, and an end, but not necessarily in that order. Jean-Luc Godard

Compose a piece of writing which begins with the end.

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Without expectation, there is no disappointment.

Use this statement as a stimulus for a piece of persuasive, discursive or imaginative writing that expresses your perspective about a significant idea in ONE of your prescribed texts from Module A, B or C.      

Use this image to inform the creation of a character in a piece of imaginative writing.

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Men and women don’t write differently, but the ends their writing achieves are definitely different.

Write a persuasive piece using this statement as a stimulus.

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I waited for him one summer morning, lying in the grass of the little field next to the road he drove down. Among the scrappy hedgerows, with sun-bleached bits of rubbish, near a patch of spring-damp mud, I crouched. My bike lay beside me in the long grass. I looked through the screen of branches for his car. 

Continue this extract. You do not need to write it out again.

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