* Updated on 10/7/14. This post is contains virtually everything typically covered in a gp school year!

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Use the following links below to help you review and study for the GP exam…

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  AICE: General Paper: an overview PowerPoint
  
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  EXAM BASICS Tips for breaking down the prompt and getting started
  
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  Top TOP 25 from the Cambridge Examiners themselves!
  
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  Essay Scoring Rubric (the offical one Cambridge uses!)
  
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  GP: Myth versus Fact: a PowerPoint to de-bunk the nonsense!
  

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  Expository Essay Sample: Explain the popularity of designer labels.
  
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  Persuasive Essay Sample: Should people have to pay to hear music?
  
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  Persuasive Essay Sample: Is it always best to tell the truth?
  
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  Discursive Essay Sample: Should fracking be banned?
  
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  Discursive Essay Sample: Can renewable resources ever address our energy needs?
  
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  A Cambridge-graded, Discursive Essay: What are the main environmental problems in your part of the world and how effectively are they being tackled?
  
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  Another Cambridge-graded, Discursive Essay: Which is more important–money or happiness?
  

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  Writing an Expository Thesis
  
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  The Expository Intro
  
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  The Persuasive Intro
  
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  The Discursive Intro
  

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  Drafting a Body Paragraph, expository model
  
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  Body Paragraph, color-coded elements of a discursive body paragraph
  
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  Topic Sentences and Seamless transitioning…take a look at this outline of the body of an expository essay…notice how each paragraph builds upon the one previous while maintaining focused on the prompt!
  
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  Layering Support in the Body…it’s ok to have two paragraphs to express one point…check out this sample to see what I mean!
  
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  Practice Seamless Transitioning…here’s the full activity we did in class, including the Key at the end!
  
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  Drafting a Body Paragraph, expository model
  
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  Point-Counterpoint, a how-to handout
  
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  Body Paragraph, persuasive model using point-counterpoint
  

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  The Expository Conclusion
  
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  The Discursive Conclusion
  

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  Midterm Simulation Prompts (from Dec. 2013)
  
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  Timed Writing: discursive
  
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  Saturday Simulation Prompts (from May 2014)
  

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  Click here for a list of commonly misspelled words…study these!
  

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  Nowadays…(yucky cliche! Replace with: ‘in today’s society,’ ‘in modern society,’ ‘today,’ ‘currently’)
  
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  It has its pros and its cons (slang-y! replace with benefits/drawbacks)
  
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  Take for example… (slang-y! replace with: Consider __ as an example…)
  
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  Say someone…(slang-y! replace with: If an individual were to…)
  
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  “Etc.” is a no-no!
  
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  And many more (replace with: among others)
  
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  You…replace with “WHO” you is! (If you buy a car…if a consumer buys a car…)
  

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  COMMAS off-set phrases
  
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  SEMICOLONS join two complete sentences
  
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  COLONS open up lists