Your examinations are drawing near, and you would like to form a study group. Write a letter to one of your classmates inviting him or her to join it. Give details of how you plan to revise and explain why it would be helpful.

MODEL ANSWER

14, Lake View Road Kolkata 700029

17 February 2026

Dear Arjun,

I have been thinking about how to get through the next six weeks without losing my head, and I have decided the answer is not to do it alone. Four of us are forming a study group, and I am writing to ask you to be the fifth.

This is the plan. We would meet at my house on Tuesdays, Thursdays and Saturdays, from four to six. Each session takes one subject, and one person is responsible for it — that person prepares the chapter beforehand and teaches it to the rest, and then we work through past paper questions together and mark one another’s answers. We would rotate, so nobody teaches the same subject twice.

I am asking you particularly because you are the only one of us who genuinely understands Physics numericals, and because you explain things without making anyone feel stupid, which is rarer than it sounds.

I think it would help all of us for two reasons. Teaching a chapter forces you to understand it properly — you find the gaps in your own knowledge the moment you try to explain it. And having three fixed appointments a week makes it much harder to drift through an entire evening doing nothing, which is what I did for most of January.

We start on Tuesday the 24th. Do come — and bring your Selina, because mine has lost its last forty pages.

Yours affectionately, Ria

WHAT THIS QUESTION SPECIFICALLY REQUIRES

Three tasks, each needing its own paragraph:

1. INVITE him or her to join
2. give DETAILS of how you plan to revise — this is the longest section and must be concrete: days, times, method
3. explain WHY it would be helpful

A letter that invites warmly but never explains the plan earns perhaps half the content marks.

FORMAT: this is an INFORMAL letter to a classmate, so no receiver’s address, no subject line, and the close is "Yours affectionately" or "With love" — never "Yours faithfully". Writing a formal format here loses both format marks outright.

TONE is assessed. A letter to a friend should sound like one. The detail about the missing forty pages does more for the expression mark than a paragraph of general enthusiasm. FORMAT AND MARKS DIVISION: see the Formal Letter and Informal Letter 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.