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    Tip 1: Write about things you are familiar with from your own experiences to make the story easier and faster to write within the time limit. Tip 2: Focus your story on a single short event or emotional experience that takes place within a short period of time to keep the story concise. Tip 3: Make every sentence in the story work hard by conveying both the narrative and themes or character feelings to tell a complete story efficiently in few words.

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    ENGLISH LANGUAGE

    How to write a CSEC English A Short Story in 45 minutes

    So, how do you write a CXC CSEC English A short story in 45 minutes?
    Well, there are a lot of techniques for short story writing. Many of which will posted
    here over time. In this post, I just want to give you some "quick and dirty" tips for
    writing good short stories when you are not so good at it and you are under the
    pressure of time in the CXC CSEC exam room.
    Tip 1: Write about things that you know well.
    It is easier, faster and smarter to write about things that you know well.
    When you choose a short story to write, try to stick to a story that you can connect
    to your own life and/or experiences. When you do this, you don't have to reach into
    your imagination so much. You already know much of the story because you have
    lived it yourself or you know someone who has.

    Tip 2: Write about one short event or short experience.


    Write about one event, one moment in time or one emotional experience. When you
    make your story take place in a short space of time, or focus on one emotional
    moment, it is easier to start and end the story in 45 minutes. If you don't believe me,
    check out the CXC best short stories, each one is about an event that happens in a
    few minutes.

    Tip 3: Make your sentences work hard.


    Every sentence in a short story has to work overtime. It has to "double up" on what
    it does. It has to tell the story and build the mood or theme of the story at the same
    time. It's not just, " the road stretched in front of him", it's, "the road that stretched
    in front of him, seemed to echo the emptiness of his future". See? In that one sentence
    I not only talked about the road but I also related it to the character's feelings and
    future.
    Please note that a sentence doesn't have to be long to work hard.

    Tip 4: Use short sentences.


    It is easier to read short sentences than it is to read long sentences. You don't want
    the Examiner slowing down his reading to try to figure out what you want to say.
    You will impress the CXC CSEC Examiner more by using simple, clear language to
    tell an exciting story, rather than using complex language to tell a story he can't
    figure out.

    Tip 5: Use simple words.


    Sometimes exam candidates think that they need to use "essay language" to impress
    examiners. They use '10 dollar words' when '10 cent words' will get the job done just
    as good or better.
    One way to tell if you are using 10 dollar words in your essay is to read your essay
    back to yourself as you are writing. If you find yourself stumbling over words,
    change the ones that you are stumbling over for easier words.
    If the essay does not flow smoothly when you are reading it to yourself, see where
    you can rewrite it so that it is easier to read.

    Tip 6: If you are not sure, don't use it.


    If you are not sure about using quotation marks and other punctuation signs when
    writing direct speech, don't use direct speech in your story. Make life easy for
    yourself, use normal sentences and write in paragraph form.
    If you are not sure about the spelling of a word, don't use it. Use another word that
    you are sure you know how to spell.
    This is an easy way to save some marks.

    Tip 7: Do not write about sex (or a lot of unnecessary violence).


    The CXC CSEC English A Examiners really, really do not like when exam
    candidates write sexually explicit stories. They have said this publicly.

    Tip 8: Write neatly.


    I know this sounds too easy, but many people do not write neatly in exams. They are
    so busy trying to get everything down on paper, within the time limit, they don't
    worry about neat handwriting. This is not a good idea.
    When your handwriting is neat and easy to understand, you are reducing the work
    the Examiner has to do to read your essay. This puts him/her in a good mood, you
    want that. I repeat, you want that.

    Tip 9: Leave time to proof-read your essay.


    Leave 5 minutes out of your 45 minutes to proof-read your essay at the end.
    We all make mistakes. In the heat of trying to get your whole essay on paper, you
    may have made spelling and/or grammar mistakes. Take a few minutes at the end of
    the exam to clean up the essay and make sure it reads well (sounds good to your ear).

    https://www.caribexams.org/node/821

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