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My son is rather upset because one of the questions in his gcse English paper requires him to write as if he is someone else.  The exact question varies year on year, but usually starts with "imagine ......"

He has told me he cannot do these kinds of question as he struggles with seeing things from another perspective.

The question carries 20% of the marks, so a lot to lose.

Does anyone know if asc children can do a different type of question instead, as it seems unfair to me to expect him to do something he cannot.

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  • Is this something the school could help with? Preview the question and give him some sort of experience to help visualise the imaginary person? My daughter wouldn't be able to answer that type of question but when she was in Primary, she won an award for a letter she wrote as a world war evacuee because before she wrote it, they'd spent a day dressed up as evacuees and had renacted leaving parents, getting on the train and then being allocated to homes in a village.  I think its the only piece of imaginery writing she's written with some degree of understanding.

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  • Is this something the school could help with? Preview the question and give him some sort of experience to help visualise the imaginary person? My daughter wouldn't be able to answer that type of question but when she was in Primary, she won an award for a letter she wrote as a world war evacuee because before she wrote it, they'd spent a day dressed up as evacuees and had renacted leaving parents, getting on the train and then being allocated to homes in a village.  I think its the only piece of imaginery writing she's written with some degree of understanding.

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