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1.2.3 Required form: narrative / recount

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The Boxing Day swim

In this question you will be assessed for the quality of your creative prose writing skills. 24 marks are awarded for communication and organisation; 16 marks are awarded for vocabulary, sentence structure, spelling and punctuation.

You should aim to write about 450 to 600 words.

Write a story which begins:

On the morning of the Boxing Day swim, my father walked down to the beach in my mother’s yellow bathing cap.

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60 exam-style questions on Eduqas GCSE English Language 1.2.3 Required form: narrative / recount. Each one has a worked solution and a mark scheme showing where the marks go.

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