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Hi,
I have two questions in english(0500):
1)In paper 2 when writing descriptive writing is it ok to narrate the story but describe as well.
2)Do you have any nice tips for writing a narrative?
Your help would be really appreciated.
Hello Bob,
Even narrative needs description. You need to help your reader imagine characters and places by adding significant details to bring them alive.
Here are some narrative composition tips:
– Decide on a tense and then stick to it; do not jump between present and past. The normal narrative tense is past and those who try to write in the present usually forget to do so after a while, so it is safer to start off in the past.
– Know what your last sentence is going to be before you write your first. A narrative has to build up to a climax and lead towards a conclusion which is planned before it starts or it will end lamely or incomprehensibly, or the pace will be too slow or too fast.
– Don’t try to do too much; you can’t cover many events and many years in one short composition. Select key moments and skip over the rest, changing the pace according to the intensity of the moment.
– If you do use dialogue, find synonyms for ‘he said/she said’
– Use plenty of interesting details to engage your reader and make them want to read on.
– End your narrative deliberately. Stories need a conclusion, where things are either resolved or purposely left unresolved as a cliff-hanger (though on the whole readers prefer to know how a story ended). You must not give the impression that you just stopped writing because you ran out of time, ink or ideas.
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its over to 3 weeks now
when i m going to find my paper???/
please hurry up…actually you can download the whole file via google drive that is why please hurry up or please tell me any alternative website where i can download all papers via zip file in bundle
Hi there,
We are still working on with our library of resources. You may search for alternative sources of past papers. Kindly google them. We are not the only website that provides past papers. Thank you.
Hi,
I was wondering if the system is still down or is there something wrong with my phone as it’s written in note section that past papers are updated to march 2019.
I know you don’t have an exact date but if possible approximately when will you be back.
You helped me greatly last session and i am very grateful for your help.
Thanks for advance
Hi Sama,
Thank you for your kind words. We are still working on with our library of resources and we do update our library constantly and continuously. Please subscribe to our newsletter for the announcement.
Hi. The main page says updated to March 2019 examinations. Does that mean your website is functioning? Even if it doesn’t, it still has a huge place in my heart as it helped me for so long.
Hello Dhruv,
Thank you for appreciating our efforts. Our website continues to function and we are still providing tips to help candidates excel in their exams.
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Hi may I ask if u forgot to shade the Candidate number in the MCQ answer sheet is it okay even though the numbers are already printed? I only signed my paper i didnt shade it because the teacher didnt instruct us to do so
Hello Sabrina,
They may be able to trace you with your printed name and candidate number. There’ll be just a minor issue because MCQ papers are scanned and checked by the computers.
If you would like to clear this issue, we suggest you to talk to your school as we do not know how was the printing like, and thus can’t provide any further suggestion.