Your school is hosting an Inter School Dance Competition. Write a notice to be put up on your school notice board informing the students about the event.
Topic: Notice writing
Answer
MODEL ANSWER
============================================ ST. XAVIER’S HIGH SCHOOL, KOLKATA ============================================
NOTICE
20 February 2024
INTER SCHOOL DANCE COMPETITION
The school will host an Inter School Dance Competition on Saturday, 16 March 2024, in the school Auditorium from 10:00 a.m. to 1:00 p.m. Students of Classes VIII to X may note the following:
- Entries are invited in two categories — solo and group (four to eight dancers).
- Each performance must not exceed five minutes; music must be submitted in advance.
- Eight schools will participate, and prizes will be awarded in both categories.
- Names may be submitted to the undersigned in the Staff Room by 5 March 2024.
Ananya Sen Head Girl ============================================
WHAT THIS QUESTION SPECIFICALLY REQUIRES
The five Ws must all be answerable: WHAT, WHEN (day, date AND time), WHERE, WHO may take part, HOW to register.
It is an INTER SCHOOL event, which affects the content: other schools are coming, so the notice should say so, and the scale justifies a larger venue and a longer slot than a house event.
A dance competition invites practical rules — time limit per performance, categories, music submitted in advance. Inventing two or three sensible rules shows you have thought about the actual event rather than filling a template.
Keep the body near 50 words, use numbered points, and do not write in the first person. 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.