IGCSE-Extended-Paper 2-0510-Summary Rules

You should not read the Summary Question task prompt carefully.

You need to think about what the main ideas are.

You can use slang in your summary

You don't have to read the text carefully (more than once if time allows) and make sure you understand it. 

While you read, you should annotate: write notes in margins, underline, and circle words to engage with the text.

You shouldn't organise ideas into a coherent paragraph using appropriate linking words and grammatical structures.

Your summary should be shorter than the original text, about one-third of the length.​

You should write in points/note form rather than writing continuously in a formal paragraph.

When Qu says: "Your summary should be about 120 words no more , it means it's OK to write 121 w.

The summary should be more than 120

Synonyms are (different words that have the same meaning) 

In Ex 4, 8 marks are for the summary and 8 for the language used.

Your summary must be concise, formal, and impersonal.

It's not necessary to write a one-line introduction that tells the examiner what you’re writing a summary on. 

The 300-400 words text is squeezed down to 120 words

In your summary, you shouldn't repeat the same point more than once

You shouldn't paraphrase the main ideas using your own words& synonyms.

When summarising you shouldn't use same text wording.

You shouldn't write a one-paragraph summary of the given text.

You should ignore what is implied (not directly stated)( gist, writer's purpose, intentions and feelings, in the text.

You don't need to think about what you've read or ask yourself why the author wrote the text (the purpose of writing).​

Is the Summary Qu in Exercise 4 worth 18 marks?

A summary is a longer version of an original text that outlines the minor points in a specific structure. 

If there are any words/phrases you don’t understand, don't use their context to work out their meaning.

It's important to pay attention to the marks to make sure that you have included all relevant points in your summary

If you forget the synonym, you should change the structure of the sentence instead

You should use the first person "I" in your summary.

You should ignore reading the topic sentence and concluding sentence of each paragraph/section of the given text.

FANBOY means FOR, And, Neither, But, Or, Yet, So

You should read the passage in about 5 minutes and write in 10 minutes.

You shouldn't bother using a wide range of less common vocabulary effectively.

You should proofread your summary to make sure there are no errors.

You should use compound sentences connected by a coordinating conjunction.: FANBOY

You should keep practising past paper QU& polishing up your vocabulary skills to ace the standardized test.

You should add your own ideas ​in the summary​

After deciding the points to put in summary, you shouldn't organise the main& supporting points according to prompt.

When summarising, you should use words from the text.