When you write an essay in the selective entry exam, it’s like being in the grand finale of the Australian open where you’re about to hit the winning shot to an open court.
What do you do?
Do you try to hit as hard as possible and hope it stays in the court or do you hit in the style you’re most familiar with for a successful shot?
Written expression is no different, especially when it comes to the structure of the essay. All you have to do is create a winning structure and practice it until perfection.
In the selective entry exam, the examiner can either ask you to write a persuasive essay or a creative essay on a prompt within 30 minutes.
Persuasive essays ask you to convince the reader into believing a certain position. You need to support or oppose the topic sentence with logical arguments without deviating to an informative format.
On the other hand, creative writing asks you to narrate a story with a clear beginning, climax, and ending. The examiner is asking you to unleash your imagination with the tools of spelling, grammar and structure.
So many times, students write paragraphs that are overly complex or sentences that cover a range of topics. Undoubtedly, this is a common error.
The examiner is looking for a compelling and smooth flowing argument. Basically, to score a superior you need a clear structure..
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