IGCSE English Language Tutoring & Prep Course

Reading: explicit and implicit meaning

Retrieving information, inferring meaning, summarising tone and purpose.

Reading: writer's effects

Analysing word choice, imagery, sentence structure and how language creates effect.

Sınavda yeri: Writer's-effects question is consistently the lowest-scoring item — pattern-spotting beats label-spotting.

Directed writing

Letters, articles, speeches, reports — purpose, audience and form discipline.

Composition

Descriptive and narrative writing; control of structure, viewpoint and language.

Summary skills

Selecting relevant points, paraphrasing, condensing without distortion of meaning.

Spoken language (where offered)

Individual talk and discussion; not assessed on every route.

HataReading answers paraphrased without source grounding.

DüzeltmeMark schemes match answers to the source. Heavy paraphrase often misses the wording the rubric expects.

HataDirected writing in the wrong text type.

DüzeltmeEach prompt specifies the text type — article, speech, letter, report. Conventions of that type are part of the rubric.

HataAnalytical writing that quotes without analysing.

DüzeltmeQuotations must be unpacked at the level of word choice, structure or technique.

HataSummary writing exceeding the word limit.

DüzeltmeWord limits cap the rubric. We drill compression to fit.

HataSentence variety overlooked.

DüzeltmeTop bands reward sentence variety and controlled punctuation. Long monotone paragraphs under-score.

Source-grounded reading

Reading answers must match the source. We drill locate-and-paraphrase rather than free recall.

Text-type as a syllabus item

Article, speech, letter and report are taught as separate sub-skills because mark schemes test their conventions explicitly.

Sentence-level coaching

We close every paragraph with a sentence-variety check — clause structure, punctuation, vocabulary range.