O’levels English Questions and Answers – Full Written Paper (30 mins)

🎥 Introduction to Video: The video is about a Q&A session on O-Level English exams, focusing on helping students prepare.
📝 Editing Exercise Overview: Focuses on grammar, specifically subject-verb agreement (SVA), word forms, articles, and prepositions. No punctuation or spelling errors are present in the editing exercise.
📚 Common Mistakes: Look out for word form changes (e.g., verb to noun) and the proper use of articles like “a” and “the.” Prepositions and phrasal verbs are often tricky and should be reviewed.
🧠 General Tips: Avoid careless mistakes by double-checking answers and following grammar rules, not just instinct.
📄 Situational Writing: Understand the purpose and audience. Whether it’s a letter, email, or proposal, format matters but don’t waste too much time on it. Focus on the content and tone.
🧩 Task Fulfillment: Ensure all prompts are addressed. Details should be relevant, and the tone should suit the audience, whether formal or informal.
✍️ Word Count for Situational Writing: Aim for 400–450 words, and address each bullet point systematically to avoid confusion.
💡 Transitional Devices: Using them makes writing smoother but isn’t mandatory. Make sure your writing is clear, concise, and proofread for errors.
⏰ Time Management: Spend around 30–40 minutes on situational writing, ensuring enough time for the editing exercise and essay.
📑 Essay Writing: Choose between personal recounts, discursive, or argumentative essays based on your strengths. Focus on essays you’ve practiced and received positive feedback on.
🖋️ Essay Word Count: Aim for 450–500 words, with an upper limit of 600 if necessary.
⏳ Time Allocation: Spend 50-60 minutes on your essay for optimal quality.
🚫 Avoid Fiction: Purely fictional stories often result in plot holes and lower marks.
✅ Personal Accounts: Writing from personal experience is easier and more coherent.
📝 Planning: Allocate 5-10 minutes to plan your essay structure before writing.
🔄 Coherence: Use transitional devices and organized points to ensure essay flow.
🎣 Introduction: Hook the reader using a question, bold statement, or quote.
🏁 Conclusion: Tailor the conclusion to the essay type (reflection, opinion, evaluation).
❓ Discursive Essays: A stand is optional but recommended; counter-arguments are not needed.
🚫 Argumentative Essays: Avoid if you’re unsure of how to structure a counter-argument.
🔍 Proofreading: Check for sentence variety, grammar, and correct transitional devices.
📚 Comprehension: Pay attention to new syllabi changes, especially in visual comprehension.
💡 Key Skills: Focus on detailed reading, paraphrasing, and contextual clues for comprehension tasks.
⚠️ Inference: Be accurate when answering inferential questions by using contextual clues.
🖇️ Flowcharts: Ensure answers are an exact match and be ready to revise if necessary.
🔎 Non-narrative Comprehension: Focus on information transfer, identifying evidence, and comparing details.
🐾 Different nouns have varied characteristics, e.g., animals with different hunting methods or fruits that look similar but differ.
📝 Language-related questions may appear throughout the paper but are typically worth 1-3 marks.
📉 Non-narrative sections, excluding the summary, have limited space for language questions, as the open-ended and short-answer sections only total 10 marks.
📊 Point of view questions are often worth 3 marks, leaving little room for language questions.
✍️ The summary exercise is worth 15 marks: 8 marks for points and 7 for language.
📈 To maximize points in the summary, aim for 8/8 in identifying points by counting them accurately.
🔄 Scoring high in language requires paraphrasing key words effectively; students weak in language may struggle and score low.
🚫 Leaving out phrases or entire sentences from the passage could result in scoring zero for language.
🎓 The video concludes with exam preparation tips for O-Level English students and an invitation to join EnglishTuition.org for lessons.