Text A: an original contemporary practice extract.
The repair workshop’s monthly report listed eighteen objects fixed. We had hoped to reach thirty, so the total looked disappointing beside the target. At the next session, four people who had brought in broken lamps the previous month returned empty-handed. They spent the afternoon showing other visitors how they had repaired the lamps themselves. Their names appeared on the attendance sheet, but there was no box in the report for what they came to do.
Text B: an original contemporary practice extract.
The seed exchange recorded sixty-four packets taken home in spring. By late summer, the table held handwritten notes from growers: which varieties had survived a dry spell, which needed more shade, and which seeds they had saved for another season. Visitors stopped to read the notes before choosing what to plant. The organisers counted the packets leaving the room, but not the advice that had gathered there, or the seeds that might return next year.
What similarities can you infer about what counts as a successful result in these accounts? Use evidence from both texts to support your answer.
834 exam-style questions on Edexcel GCSE English Language 2.3 Content: non-fiction study and transactional text types, covering 2.3.9 Write an article, 2.3.10 Write a letter, 2.3.11 Write a review, 2.3.12 Write a text for a speech, and 2.3.13 Write a section for a guide, textbook, leaflet or booklet. Each one has a worked solution and a mark scheme showing where the marks go.