Composition and Creative Writing
What this domain tests
Extended original writing in Karbi: an essay or descriptive piece, a letter (formal or informal), a short story or story completion, and often a notice, paragraph or report. Marks split between content, organisation, language accuracy and presentation.
Core rules
- Plan for two minutes: three to five points in order. An essay without a plan drifts.
- A paragraph is one idea, one supporting detail, and a linking sentence. One paragraph per point.
- Essay frame: an opening that states the subject, body paragraphs, a closing that returns to the title without repeating it.
- Letter frame: sender's address, date, salutation, opening reference, body, closing, signature. Formal letters avoid contractions and personal asides.
- Story: set place and character in two sentences, introduce one complication, resolve it, end on the consequence.
- Keep sentences short enough that agreement and postpositions stay correct.
Worked example
Topic: "A festival in my village." Plan: (1) when and why it is held; (2) preparation - cleaning, contributions, drums; (3) the main day - procession, dance, shared meal; (4) what it means to the village. Draft of paragraph 2: name the work done in the preceding weeks, add one concrete detail (the contribution each household gives), then close with a sentence linking preparation to the festival's purpose. The topic sentence carries the idea, the detail proves it, and the last sentence hands over to the next paragraph.
Traps that cost marks
- Writing far below or far above the word limit.
- Mixing formal and informal register inside one letter.
- No paragraph breaks, so organisation marks fall.
- Ending a story with a dream reversal instead of a consequence.