SKILLS

Key skill quizzes

This page contains quick links to all the quizzes currently available for the different key skills. The quizzes are also linked to at the end of the relevant guide for that skill. You can earn an extra Skill Level if you get 100% in the quiz.

How the quizzes work

These quizzes are all in Microsoft Forms. You can take them all as many times as you want, anonymously, just to test yourself.

If you want to earn a bonus Skill Level for each skill, you can choose to add your name to the quiz. You then need to get 100% when you take the quiz that time, though you can try for the bonus Skill Level multiple times, too, if you need to. There’s no harm in failing on the way to success.

When you get the 100% just email your teacher with a screenshot proving your 100% and they’ll add the Skill Level and any necessary rewards that go with it.

General essay writing quiz

  1. How to use an appropriate style for an essay

Key essay writing skill quizzes

  1. Writing paragraph points

  2. Selecting relevant, meaningful evidence

  3. Embedding and contextualising evidence

  4. Making an argument

  5. Analysing language, form and structure

  6. Linking analysis to big ideas

  7. Linking analysis to context and the writer’s perspective

  8. Creating a conceptualised response around a clear thesis

Key creative writing skill quizzes

  1. Creating a character (coming soon)

  2. Describing a setting in vivid detail

  3. Writing direct speech

  4. Using 3rd person limited narrative voice (coming soon)

  5. Controlling time in a story, including using timeshifts (coming soon)

  6. Creating an effective structure (fiction) (coming later this year)

  7. Writing an opening and matched closing for a given text type (coming soon)

  8. Writing an opinion paragraph for a given text type (coming soon)

  9. Creating an effective structure (non-fiction) (coming later this year)