General Feedback on practice Paper 1

1. If I ask you to finish a practice paper at home so I can give you useful feedback, and you don't do so, don't expect me to read it.  If your homework is to finish something you start in class, and you don't, then you did not do your homework. If you have a legitimate reason you could not finish it before the lesson where it is due, you may ask for a reasonable extension.  If you don't plan to finish it, just throw it away.  When you receive a paper from a classmate for peer review, if it is unfinished, you should indicate so in your comments and mock grade.  
2. Remember to skip a line between every line, to leave room for marking and to make reading easier.  If you do not skip a line, I will not read practice pieces; on the real test, I will limit comments to the barest minimum.
3. You had an example that was approximately 1000 words, and it scored 13 points; some of you gave your classmate higher marks (sometimes as much as 18), when he/she sometimes only wrote as few as 350 words, and often did not finish the piece.  Consider whether this shows much critical thought.  Are you critically reflecting on what you or your classmate need to do to get a good grade?  Is it really helpful to a classmate to pat them on the back and tell them "you've scored 18 points", when their actual score is closer to 7?
4. Some of you are still making the "1-point errors".  Check and learn the list under the tab of this website to avoid them.
5. Important features to discuss, which only one or two people, if any, picked up on:
1. Paragraph 1 is a general introduction, paragraphs 2-4 are about Antigua, and paragraphs 5-8 are about Barbuda.
2. Antigua is the island of luxurious beaches and expensive hotels and resorts, good food, winding roads lined with pineapple; Barbuda is more the island for those who want to get closer to nature, with "uninhabited beach [i.e., no hotels] accessed by rutted roads surrounded by scrub brush and cacti" (with the exception of a very exclusive resort).
3. The blue background color suggesting the blue of the Caribbean waters surrounding the islands.
4. This page is merely an overview, or introduction of a larger piece. It is therefore an extract from a travel guide.The pictures, like the text under them, are clickable links to more information on the islands, which therefore together with this overview, constitute the entire piece.   
6. Don't try to prove the obvious.  At the end of the 2nd page, before the guiding questions, it is written "From the website..."  You don't need to prove this with evidence from the text.  You can explain why certain features are present because it is a website, but you don't have to prove it is a website because those features are present.