You have 5 minutes perusal and 60 minutes to write two essays: one Task A and Task B

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Task A

Consider the following comments and develop a piece of writing in response to one or more of them. Your writing will be judged on the quality of what you have to say in response to the theme, how well you organize and present your point of view, and how effectively you express yourself. You will not be judged on the views or attitude you express.

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Poverty is the failure of equity and charity.
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The world's poorest nations are those that have been torn apart by conflict.
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No one asks to be born into poverty but they can ask to be removed from it through hard work and dedication.
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Poverty can never be eradicated whilst humans have free will.
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Poverty is the mother of crime and the daughter of upheaval.

 

Task B

Consider the following comments and develop a piece of writing in response to one or more of them. Your writing will be judged on the quality of what you have to say in response to the theme, how well you organize and present your point of view, and how effectively you express yourself. You will not be judged on the views or attitude you express.

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Home is more than a place of bricks and mortar. It is solace, security, love.
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Home is the place that, when you have to go there, they have to let you in.
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Home is where the heart is.
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Home is a word that belongs only to the loved.
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Home is for the idle, the ill and the unimaginative.

 

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