The missing observations
The school weather project had run for six weeks when we began preparing the display. Two days' records were missing altogether. A third sheet listed temperatures without saying whether they had been measured indoors or outside. Different groups had used different symbols for cloud cover, and nobody had kept a key. Some entries gave the time as 'after lunch', although lunch had moved during the examination week. We could not repeat those past observations. Instead, we marked the gaps and explained why parts of the chart could not fairly be compared.
Describe the problems with comparing the weather records. You may support your points with brief quotations.
232 exam-style questions on Edexcel A IGCSE English Language 1.2 Section A: Non-fiction Texts, covering 1.2.1 Focus of Section A, 1.2.2 Reading challenging non-fiction in preparation for the unseen text, 1.2.3 Reading substantial and extended texts, 1.2.4 Skills of interpretation and analysis, 1.2.5 Range of non-fiction forms, 1.2.6 Literary non-fiction text types, 1.2.7 Transient texts excluded from assessment, 1.2.8 The anthology as a supporting resource, and 1.2.9 Digital location of texts. Each one has a worked solution and a mark scheme showing where the marks go.