Writing - Írásbeli feladat
What the writing paper tests
Írásbeli feladat tests whether you can produce a coherent text that fits a genre, audience and purpose. You normally write two tasks: a shorter transactional text (email, note, message) and a longer text (article, blog comment, narrative, report or opinion essay). The task gives content points; all of them must be covered.
Core rules
- Identify the reader and choose register: informal for a friend (Hi Sam, / Take care), formal for an institution (Dear Sir or Madam, / Yours faithfully).
- Follow genre conventions: an email needs a greeting and closing; an article needs a headline and paragraphs; a narrative needs a clear time sequence.
- Cover every bullet point explicitly; do not hope the examiner will infer it.
- Use paragraphing and linking words (however, therefore, in addition, on the other hand).
- Respect the word limit; both underlength and overlength can lose marks.
Worked example
Task: 'Write an email to your English friend inviting them to visit, mentioning transport and food.' Reasoning: the reader is a friend, so use 'Hi Alex,' not 'Dear Sir/Madam'. Two content points must appear: transport ('You can take the 12 bus from the station') and food ('We can try the local market on Saturday'). Close informally: 'Hope you can make it! Best, Márk.' A memorized essay about tourism would score poorly because it ignores the invitation purpose and the two bullets.
Traps that cost marks
- Writing a prepared text that only loosely fits the prompt.
- Mixing formal and informal language in one text.
- Missing a content point because you ran out of ideas.
- No paragraphs, or one-sentence paragraphs throughout.
- Basic spelling errors in common words (because, friend, receive, accommodation).
- Using complex structures you cannot control; accuracy and clarity score better.