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Item
Description
I Paper 4: Writing (800/4)
Weighting
30%
2
Duration
90 minutes
3 TEST FORMAT
Number of questions
2
s. Candidates are4 required to sit for all the four papers.
Possible genres
Report, article, letter, essay
are as follows. 5
Rhetorical style

tes) Analytical, descriptive, persuasive,

argumentative
uired to listen to6recorded texts twice and answer questions on them.
Task
uestions consisting of information transfer, short-answer questions, 3-option multiple-choice questions and 4-option multiple-choice questions.
Question 1:Interpretation of
information based on
specific stimuli provided
tes)
(no less than 150 words)
q ui re d to p erfo rm tw o task
Question s: in di vi dwriting
2: Extended ual presentation
based onand group interaction.
a given topic
ntation, candidates will be(no given
less2 than
minutes
350 to prepare for the given task and 2 minutes to present. Candidates will also listen to the other can
words)
on (4 to a group),7 candidates will be given 2 m i n u t e s t o p r e p a r e p o i n t s t o s u p p o r t o r o p p o s e t h e o t h e r c a n d i d a t e s ' v i e w s . A f t e r l i s t e n i
Skills tested listening
c ome to a c onsensus.
As in theThe
testgroup will be given 10 minutes for the group interaction.
specifications