Paper 2 Q1 · Directed writing: past paper questions
Real questions on paper 2 q1 · directed writing
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- 0500/21 · May/June 2026 · Q1[40]
Your friend is considering keeping an online digital diary to be published on the internet. Write a letter to your friend giving your advice about whether or not this is a good idea. In your letter you should: • • evaluate the ideas, attitudes and opinions in the texts give your views about the factors your friend shou...
See it on the paper → - 0500/22 · May/June 2026 · Q1[40]
Imagine you live in an area where a proposal to remove technology from all school classrooms is being considered. Write a speech to a meeting of parents, teachers and members of the local community, giving your views on whether or not this is a good idea. In your speech you should: • • evaluate how the proposal might a...
See it on the paper → - 0500/23 · May/June 2026 · Q1[40]
A friend has decided to apply to become a student mentor at your school or college. You have some concerns about whether this is a good idea. • • evaluate the benefits and challenges of mentoring given in both texts share your concerns with your friend and the factors they need to consider before applying. Base your le...
See it on the paper → - 0500/22 · February/March 2026 · Q1[40]
Write an article for young people about the best way for them to spend their leisure time. evaluate the attitudes in both texts about the purpose and value of leisure time give your advice about the factors young people should consider when deciding how to use their leisure time. Base your article on what you have read...
See it on the paper → - 0500/21 · October/November 2025 · Q1[40]
Imagine a close friend is trying to make a change in their life but is finding it hard to do so. • • evaluate the ideas in both texts and suggest why you think your friend might be finding it difficult to make the change suggest to your friend some of the things they could do to help them to make the change. Base your...
See it on the paper → - 0500/22 · October/November 2025 · Q1[40]
Imagine you are a parent of a child attending the school which is advertising the art competition in Text B. Following complaints that it would be unfair to allow entries of computer art, the headteacher has asked parents to share their opinions. Write a letter to the headteacher. In your letter you should: evaluate th...
See it on the paper → - 0500/23 · October/November 2025 · Q1[40]
Imagine a friend is about to start a new part-time job and is nervous about making a mistake when dealing with a customer or colleague on their first day. In your letter you should: • • evaluate the ideas and opinions in the text about attitudes to making mistakes suggest to your friend the best way to approach day one...
See it on the paper → - 0500/21 · May/June 2025 · Q1[40]
Write an article for your school or college magazine about whether or not a volunteer scheme for older students would be a good idea. In your article you should: • • evaluate the ideas, attitudes and opinions about volunteering in both texts consider the effects a compulsory volunteering scheme in school would have on...
See it on the paper → - 0500/22 · May/June 2025 · Q1[40]
Imagine you live in a city which is considering redesigning your neighbourhood. In your letter you should: • • evaluate the ideas, attitudes and opinions given in the texts consider whether or not the proposal is desirable or workable and whether or not it will benefit different people in the community. Base your lette...
See it on the paper → - 0500/23 · May/June 2025 · Q1[40]
Your school has organised a visit to an area of great natural beauty. To appreciate the experience more fully, the headteacher has decided that students will only be allowed access to their mobile phones in an emergency, not to take pictures. Write a letter to the headteacher giving your views on this decision. In your...
See it on the paper → - 0500/22 · February/March 2025 · Q1[40]
Write a speech to an audience of young people about attitudes to owning books and keeping them. In your speech you should: • • evaluate the ideas, attitudes and opinions in the texts about buying and keeping books give your own views, based on the texts, on some of the factors which should influence young people’s atti...
See it on the paper → - 0500/21 · October/November 2024 · Q1[40]
Write a magazine article for young people with the title, ‘Music matters’. evaluate the views, attitudes and opinions given in both texts give your own views, based on what you have read, about the best ways to inspire young people to become involved with music. Base your article on what you have read in both texts, bu...
See it on the paper → - 0500/22 · October/November 2024 · Q1[40]
Write an article for a teenage magazine with the title, ‘What’s the point of learning to cook?’ • • evaluate the ideas, attitudes and opinions given in both texts give your views on whether or not young people need to cook and want to cook. Base your article on what you have read in both texts but be careful to use you...
See it on the paper → - 0500/23 · October/November 2024 · Q1[40]
There is a proposal for your local area to become cash-free. You want to share your views on this proposal at a meeting of local residents. In your speech you should: • • evaluate the ideas, attitudes and opinions given in both texts consider some of the ways that being cash-free might affect individuals, businesses an...
See it on the paper → - 0500/21 · May/June 2024 · Q1[40]
Write an article for young people about food waste and what they can do about it. In your article you should: • • evaluate the ideas, attitudes and opinions given in both texts suggest how young people can help to reduce food waste in their homes, schools and the wider world. Base your article on what you have read in...
See it on the paper → - 0500/22 · May/June 2024 · Q1[40]
A friend has asked for advice about whether or not to lie to avoid attending an event that they might find boring or embarrassing. Write a letter to your friend, giving your advice. In your letter you should: • • evaluate the ideas, attitudes and opinions in both texts give advice to your friend about how to respond, g...
See it on the paper → - 0500/23 · May/June 2024 · Q1[40]
Write an article for your school or college newspaper about how young people should communicate in their first jobs. In your article you should: • • evaluate the ideas, attitudes and opinions in both texts advise young people on the factors they should consider when communicating with their work colleagues. Base your a...
See it on the paper → - 0500/22 · February/March 2024 · Q1[40]
You and a friend have been asked to work together to organise an event in school or college. Your friend is an overthinker. Write a letter to your friend, suggesting how you could work successfully together. In your letter you should: • • evaluate the ideas, attitudes and opinions given in the texts consider some of th...
See it on the paper → - 0500/21 · October/November 2023 · Q1[40]
Imagine that you are a student of a school which is considering whether or not to demolish an old building on its site. Write the speech you give to a meeting of local people, expressing your views. In your speech you should: • evaluate the ideas, attitudes and opinions about buildings given in both texts • based on wh...
See it on the paper → - 0500/22 · October/November 2023 · Q1[40]
Imagine you are an employee of a business in which listening to podcasts is not allowed. Write a letter to persuade your boss that staff should be allowed to listen to podcasts in their workplace. In your letter you should: • evaluate the ideas, attitudes and opinions about podcasts given in both texts • consider the c...
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What examiners said
Comprehensive responses • Responses opened and closed aptly with rhetorical questions, humour or other rhetorical devices appropriate for the form and audience. • Candidates wrote sustained, well-organised and paragraphed responses and argued their point of view coherently. • Candidates structured their responses independently of the structure of the original texts, using the ideas to create a new...
— Examiner report, February/March 2026, 0500/22 Q1 (Cambridge)
Write an article for your school or college magazine about whether or not a volunteer scheme for older students would be a good idea. In your article you should: • evaluate the ideas, attitudes and opinions about volunteering in both texts • consider the effects a compulsory volunteering scheme in school would have on students, teachers and the wider community. Base your article on what you hav...
— Examiner report, May/June 2025, 0500/21 Q1 (Cambridge)
Imagine you live in a city which is considering redesigning your neighbourhood. Write a letter to the city authorities, giving your views on the proposal to create a ‘city village’. In your article you should: • evaluate the ideas, attitudes and opinions given in both texts • consider whether or not the proposal is desirable or workable and whether or not it will benefit different people in the...
— Examiner report, May/June 2025, 0500/22 Q1 (Cambridge)
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