Your school is organising an Inter House Non-Flame Cooking Competition. Write a notice informing the students about the event.
Topic: Notice writing
Answer
MODEL ANSWER
============================================ ST. XAVIER’S HIGH SCHOOL, KOLKATA ============================================
NOTICE
17 February 2026
INTER HOUSE NON-FLAME COOKING COMPETITION
An Inter House Non-Flame Cooking Competition will be held on Friday, 13 March 2026, in the school Dining Hall from 10:00 a.m. to 12:00 noon. Students of Classes VIII to X may note the following:
- Each House may enter one team of three students.
- No form of flame or heating appliance may be used; all ingredients must be brought by the participants.
- Dishes will be judged on taste, presentation, hygiene and originality.
- Names may be submitted to the undersigned in the Staff Room by 5 March 2026.
Ananya Sen Head Girl ============================================
WHAT THIS QUESTION SPECIFICALLY REQUIRES
The five Ws must all be answerable from your notice: WHAT the event is, WHEN (day, date AND time), WHERE, WHO may take part, and HOW to register.
The phrase NON-FLAME is the distinguishing detail of this particular competition, so a rule about it belongs in the body. A notice for a "cooking competition" that never mentions the restriction has not described the event that was set.
It is an INTER HOUSE event, so the entry rule should be framed by House rather than by individual — another detail taken straight from the question.
Keep the body to about 50 words and use numbered points. There are no extra marks for length, and the time belongs to Questions 4 and 5. 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.