Narrative And Descriptive Writing

Section B gives you three prompts and forty five minutes to write something worth thirty marks, half the paper. Some prompts want a story. Some want a place, a person or a moment held still and made vivid. They are not the same task, and the commonest way to lose marks here is to accept a descriptive prompt and then quietly turn it into a plot because a plot feels safer.

This note separates the two modes and teaches what each one actually demands. A narrative needs shape and change: somebody must be different at the end. A description needs organisation without plot: it has to move the reader through something rather than along a timeline. Choose the right mode for the prompt, build it correctly, and eighteen AO4 marks come within reach.