This section of the exam is focused on writing one from a number of possible text types based on a contextualised writing task. Candidates have a choice of task. The tasks provide candidates with a clear context, topic, purpose and target reader for their writing.

The output text types are:

• letter/email 

• proposal

• report

• review.

  • essay
  • article

There is a word limit of between 220–260 words. 

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