Sample CSEC Narrative Writing Practice Questions

Here are CXC past paper-type short story questions. These are the types of short story questions that have been on CXC English A past papers NB CXC suggests spending no more than 45 minutes to answer the short story question on Paper 2 of the English A exam. They also suggest 400 – 450 words as the short story length 1. Write a story entitled, “The decision…

CSEC English A Sample Summary Writing Question

Here is a CXC past paper type summary writing question. This is the type of summary writing question that has been on CXC English A past papers NB: CXC suggests spending no more than 35 minutes to answer the summary writing question in Section one, paper 2 of the English A exam. Read carefully the following conversation between Ross and Susan and then…

To Da-duh, in Memoriam by Paule Marshall Analysis – CSEC English B Short Story

‘‘To Da-duh, in Memoriam’’ is an autobiographical story told from the point of view of an adult looking back on a childhood memory. The story opens as the nine-year-old narrator, along with her mother and sister, disembarks from a boat that has brought them to Bridgetown, Barbados. It is 1937, and the family has come to visit from their home…