ICAS Writing
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Subject Guide
Participants
• From Primary 3 to Form 5 student (Year 4 to Year 12 students)
Content (narrative writing)
For a narrative writing, the task requires students to write one or two of the following aspects or stages of a narrative
• The beginning of a narrative
• The complication or event in a narrative
• A description of a setting
• A description of a character
• The conclusion of a narrative
Content (persuasive writing)
For a persuasive writing, the task requires students to write a text that persuades. These include:
• A review
• An advertisement
• A letter to a council
• A formal argument
• An opinion piece for a newspaper
• A campaign manifesto
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Question Types
• Narrative / Persuasive
Marking criteria
• Criterion-Referenced Test
• Double marking process
(refer to ICAS Writing written and online report guideline and ICAS Writing website)
Skill Areas
• Text purpose and structure:
The text has been structured and specific stylistic and vocabulary choices have been made to achieve the writer’s purpose and engagement of the reader. The best texts will demonstrate a creative and skillful integration of structure and language choices in order to do this.
• Language choices that enhance the writing
The correct use of tense and the ways in which tense can be manipulated to strengthen the writing; the correct use of pronouns, conjunctions and connectives to assist the reader in following the text; and the ability to correctly structure a variety of different types of sentences.
• Syntax, Grammar and Punctuation
Assess correct use of sentence grammar, including subject-verb agreement and the correct use of prepositions, articles and plurals and punctuation.
• Spelling
Assesses a student’s demonstrated ability to correctly spell words of increasing levels of complexity which are appropriate to the task
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Sample Question
2025 ICAS Assessments Structure - Writing
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