Your school is hosting an Inter-School Quiz Competition. Write out a notice to be displayed in your school giving all details for the event.

MODEL ANSWER

============================================ ST. XAVIER’S SCHOOL, KANPUR ============================================

NOTICE

14 October 2019

INTER-SCHOOL QUIZ COMPETITION

The school will host an Inter-School Quiz Competition on Thursday, 24 October 2019, in the school Auditorium from 9:00 a.m. to 11:30 a.m. Students of Classes IX to XII may note the following:

1. Eight schools will take part, each fielding a team of three members.
2. The quiz will cover general knowledge, current affairs, science and sport.
3. There will be a written preliminary round, from which four teams will qualify for the final.
4. Students wishing to represent the school may give their names to their class teacher by 18 October 2019.

Sudhakar Menon Head Boy ============================================

WHAT THIS QUESTION SPECIFICALLY REQUIRES

The phrase "giving ALL DETAILS for the event" makes this an information-heavy notice, and the content marks are counted against those details. The five Ws must all be answerable: WHAT, WHEN (date AND time), WHERE, WHO may take part, HOW to register.

It is an INTER-SCHOOL event, so say how many schools are coming and what a team consists of. Those are exactly the details a student reading the board would want, and inventing two or three sensible ones — the subjects covered, a preliminary round — shows you have thought about the actual event rather than filling a template.

Keep the body near 50 words, use numbered points, stay impersonal, and give your name AND designation. FORMAT AND MARKS DIVISION: see the Notice and E-mail references in the Writing Formats & Marking (Reference) chapter.

USE THIS AS A MODEL, NOT AS AN ANSWER TO MEMORISE. The question asks for an ORIGINAL composition, and every year examiners identify scripts reproduced from guide books; a memorised answer can be penalised for plagiarism and will in any case read as borrowed. Study this piece for its STRUCTURE — how it opens, how the paragraphs are ordered, where the required tasks are answered, how it ends — and then write your own, about your own school, your own family, your own town. Your own specific detail is worth more marks than anyone else’s polished sentence.