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: ?????