Writing carries half the marks on the SEC 11 English paper, and it is the part students lose most often - not because they cannot write, but because nobody ever showed them the shape the examiner is looking for.
This pack shows you. The KPC Notes O-Level English: Writing & Composition pack turns the whole Writing strand of the MATSEC syllabus into four skill modules and sixteen text-type chapters, each one taught, modelled with a fully annotated example, then practised in the exact style of the real paper.
Choose your level
✔ Levels 1-2 - a 145-page guide-and-chapters booklet plus a separate 28-page answer booklet - 173 pages in total.
✔ Levels 2-3 - the same chapters set at the harder route, with the longer extended task and the tighter marking criteria. A 137-page booklet plus a separate 22-page answer booklet - 159 pages in total.
How the pack works - the three parts
✔ The skill modules - "Decode the Task", "Plan & Paragraph", "Draft, Revise, Improve" and "Summary Writing" teach the habits every writing task depends on: reading the question correctly (including the opinion-versus-discuss trap that quietly costs the most marks), planning a properly paragraphed answer, revising it in three passes, and writing a summary to a strict word count.
✔ Sixteen text-type chapters - one for every kind of writing the exam can set, each with its obligatory features, a useful-language bank, a full annotated model answer and exam-style practice tasks.
✔ A separate answer booklet - a model plan and marking notes for every practice task, keyed to the official MATSEC rating scales, so you can judge your own work exactly as an examiner would.
What's inside
✔ 4 skill modules and 16 text-type chapters covering the whole Writing strand of the paper.
✔ Every text type in the exam - text message, social-media post, informal and formal email, formal letter, opinion and discursive article, report, review, speech, narrative, descriptive writing, instructions and processes, travel blog, letter of apology, and rules, plans and practical texts.
✔ 18 annotated model answers - the heart of the pack - each one showing exactly which features earn which marks, so you can see what a top response looks like and why.
✔ The examiner's rubric, decoded - a "How You Are Marked" guide covering all four rating scales (Task achievement, Language use, Organisation, and Vocabulary & register) and the summary word-count penalties, so you always know where the marks come from.
✔ Exam-style practice tasks in every chapter, with model plans and marking notes, so you can write under timed conditions and mark yourself like an examiner.
✔ A reference section - the formal and informal register bank, with greetings, sign-offs and word swaps you can lift straight into an answer.
Instant PDF download - your download link is emailed to you immediately after purchase. Licensed for your personal use only.
Resources from year 9 upwards are sent as digital copies.
Victoria Muscat
Highly recommended Notes!