👋🏽 Hi, I’m Kerry. I teach CSEC English B at Arc School: live classes each week, lesson resources, exam practice and personalised coaching for the May–June 2027 exams. In this lesson, pay attention to how each question is broken down. Then write your own essay in your own words. Just don’t copy my sentences into your exam answer. Your answer has to show what you think.
Two essay questions on Animal Farm can both ask for TWO incidents and ONE technique and still want different essays. If you write the essay you expected instead of the one in front of you, a lot of what you know won’t answer the question.
So today we’ll work on reading the question before you plan anything.
Here, you’ll take a question apart before you plan, so that your essay answers what was asked.
By the end of this lesson, you will be able to:
find every instruction in an essay question, including small words like ONE, TWO and EACH
say what describe, discuss and examine ask you to do
choose the main point your whole essay will prove
pick incidents that fit the question and leave out the ones that don’t
turn a new question into an essay outline and write one part of it
In the full lesson, we’ll break down two real Animal Farm questions that look alike and see how the same incident has to be explained differently for each one. Then you’ll do it yourself on a question you haven’t seen here.
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Grab a pen. Here are the two questions.