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Hi everyone
When our DC are actually in the exam do they use a separate answer sheet to mark their answers or do they write the letters directly on the paper when doing the cloze (for both forms of clozes)?
I know these are only minor details but i think these small details will help

The options have letters above them, so find the answer find the letter, then each gap has a question number, the child puts a bar across the letter they have chosen in the corresponding answer number, on a separate answer sheet.

The first time my ds did this, he got completely mixed up, thankfully it was familiarisation, and his friends helped him through it afterwards, but a poor trackers nightmare really!

Sorry just realised this was queen Mary's...we were cem bucks...I will shut up and go away.

Not in your area, but I had a look at the sample questions on the school's website; it looks like answers are written on the paper.

http://www.qmgs.walsall.sch.uk/images/a ... 202013.pdf

Unfortunately our cem sample was identically laid out to your download link, but the familiarisation and the real thing were as I waffled on about earlier.

southbucks3 wrote:Unfortunately our cem sample was identically laid out to your download link, but the familiarisation and the real thing were as I waffled on about earlier.

Not very helpful, that, then...

In the instructions on the QM site it says that the answers are to be written in the booklet (which one guesses they may or may not be...).

Sorry its probably just me but i'm still a bit baffled Looking at the familiarisation paper it looks likeyou write directly onto the question paper for both forms of the clozes (page 2) sorry or like southbucks3 kindly stated there is a separate answer sheet because i know my Ds will defo panic with this and it'll slow him down immensely

Thanks Toadmum for the familiarisation paper will this be how it will actually be set out on the day?

Thanks DIYmum so writing/shading the answers actually on the question paper, that is so good to know, hopefully the mods soon will collate the recent Queen Marys 2013 structure up on the forum like they've done in the past so we get a bit more insight but what i'm also hearing is that we have to expect the unexpected which my Ds is not so good at

DIY mum you mentioned 'cloze type 3 ' what does this mean i didn't realise there were cloze 1,2,3. Could you kindly let me know where i can find out about this ?

It's the same type as illustrated on Toadmum's link.

From an old post:

B. Cloze Type 1: missing letters in some of the words in a passage, usually 2-3 pages long.



Cloze Type 2: choose one word from out of 3/4 words in text.





Cloze Type 3: a combination of cloze with synonyms / antonyms.