PSLE Creative Writing Past Year Questions Examined
PSLE Creative Writing Past Year Questions Examined
2016 – 2018
Year 2016: A Secret
• What was the secret?
• Plenty of opportunities to exercise your creativity.
• Some suggested storylines…
• Something that is heavy and serious.
• Being told that you are an adopted child.
• Lots of drama…
• Something that is childish and maybe even a tad silly.
• Like keeping a naughty secret that you had brought a toy to school.
• Or you can have something somewhere in between…
• Such as keeping a secret to a surprise birthday party.
Year 2017: A Special Gift
• Two mysteries inherent in the question.
• One: Who gave you the special gift?
• Two: What was the special gift?
• Obvious approach: Your best friend gave you the gift and that is why it is special.
• Heavy approach: From someone dear to you who had died.
• Light approach: The gift contains some kind of prank, which made it memorable.
• Balanced approach: There was a prank in the gift, but in the end your best friend gave you the real gift – a special pen.
Year 2018: Teamwork
• What was the joint effort?
• Did something interesting happen?
• Heavy approach: Due to a dispute, students started fighting one another…
• …hopefully no one died in the story.
• Light approach: Something embarrassing happened. E.g. Presenting, performing, etc.
• Someone tore his pants in the middle of a performance…
• …teamwork was to surround the student to prevent embarrassment.
• Balanced approach: ?????