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Sample Assessment Materials
Functional Skills
English: Reading and
Writing
Entry Level 1
Functional Skills English - Reading
Entry 1
Fill in your name, date of birth and registration number in the boxes below.
Surname: Other Names:
Gateway Qualifications registration number: DOB:
Centre Name:
My signature confirms that I will not discuss the content of this assessment with anyone.
Signature:
Task Task
Date of sitting Date of
sitting
Total marks Total
marks
Pass Mark 10 Total Mark of both tasks /16 Pass/Fail
Tutor signature
General guidance for the conduct of controlled assessment reading
tasks
All assessments must be taken under controlled conditions. This means that the
learner must be supervised at all times during the assessment.
Learners must be provided with a suitably quiet, undisturbed location, with adequate
heating and lighting. The accommodation normally used by learners may be used for
assessment. There is no need to remove posters, displays or materials containing
information relevant to what is being assessed. However, materials should not
provide a prepared answer to the task.
There is a choice of tasks for reading. Learners must complete two tasks. They may
complete any two of the six tasks provided, this will enable centres to choose tasks
appropriate for their learners. Centres must not change the reading tasks; this
includes the texts and questions. The two tasks do not need to be completed in the
same session.
If the assessment takes place over more than one session, learners’ materials must
be collected in at the end of each session, stored securely and handed back at the
beginning of the next session. The completed assessment record sheets and
assessment evidence must be retained at the end of the controlled assessment for
verification purposes.
Learners with agreed particular requirements, in relation to their mode of learning or
assessment, can have their usual support, unless this compromises the outcome of
the assessment. Those providing assistance should refer to appropriate access
regulations detailed in the specification.
Learners may have access to a dictionary.
Tutor/Assessors may read/explain the rubrics on the tasks but not the texts or
questions. Tutor/Assessors must not interpret the words for learners.
Before learners begin the controlled assessment tasks, tutors/assessors should help
learners become familiar with the various words and phrases used on the paper for
example” put a tick in the correct box”, “complete the sentence”.
Learners have 45 minutes to complete the two tasks.
Guidance for learners
The following information should be read/given to learners before each controlled
assessment session begins. If the tasks are spread over more than one session tutors
should repeat the information.
Read each question carefully.
Make sure you know what to do before you start to write your answers. Ask your tutor
/assessor if you are not sure.
Write your answers in the spaces provided after each question.
Use a pen with blue or black ink.
Some questions must be answered with a tick in the box. If you change your mind
about an answer, put a line through the box you have used and then mark your new
answer with a tick.
You may use a dictionary.
You should answer every question.
There are 8 marks for each task.
Check your answers carefully at the end.
Two sample tasks have been provided
Sample Task 1 – New Café
Text A
A new café has opened.
Put a tick in the correct box
1) The opening times on Saturday are
a) 8am to 5am
b) 8am to 12am
c) 9am to 5 pm
(1 mark)
2) The soup of the day is
a) mushroom
b) bean
c) tomato
(1 mark)
Flora Café
Opening times
Monday - Friday
8am - 5pm
Saturday
9am - 5pm
Sunday 12am - 6pm
Come and try our delicious food!
Soup of the day - mushroom
Sandwiches – cheese, egg, ham
Salads – ham, egg, chicken
Jacket potatoes – cheese, beans, tuna
Answer the questions. You do not need to write in full sentences.
3) If you do not like ham or cheese what sandwich could you have
(1 mark)
4) What can you have with a jacket potato? Name one filling
(1 mark)
Total 4 marks
Text B
Sam sends an email to Joe suggesting they go to the Flora Café.
Message
From: Sam
To: Joe
Subject: Lunch
Hi
I have found a new café. Would you like to meet for lunch on Tuesday? The
Flora Café is opposite the bus station. I will meet you there at 12.30. Let me
know. You can phone me after 6 o’clock.
Hope to see you!
Sam
Answer the questions. You do not need to write in full sentences.
5) On which day does Sam want to meet Joe?
(1 mark)
6) Where is the café?
(1 mark)
7) What time will Sam meet Joe?
(1 mark)
8) When can Joe phone Sam?
(1 mark)
Total 4 marks
Sample Task 2 – Birthday Party
Text A
You have been given this invitation.
Come to Jack’s Birthday Party!
Saturday 31st October
From 8pm until midnight
Lots of food and drink
Music and dancing
Longbourne Community Hall
Whitehall Road
Chelmsford Essex
Please email to let me know if you can come by Friday 23 October!
1) Put the party in the right place in your diary
Make a note of :
2) the time it starts
3) where the party will be.
(3 marks)
4) Jack wants people to reply
a) by email
b) by phone
c) by text
(1 mark)
Total 4 marks
26th Monday
27th Tuesday
28th Wednesday
29th Thursday
30th Friday
31st Saturday
1st Sunday
Text B
Jack’s friend Samina sends this reply to Jack.
Message
From: Samina
To: Jack
Subject: Birthday Party
Hi Jack
I am very sorry but I cannot come to your party. I am going away for the
weekend with my family. We are going to my cousin’s wedding in London. I
hope you have fun. See you soon.
Samina
Answer these questions. You do not need to write in full sentences.
5) Why is Samina sorry?
(1 mark)
6) Who is she going away with?
(1 mark)
7) Who is getting married?
(1 mark) 8) Where is the wedding?
(1 mark)
Total 4 marks
General Marking Guidance and Assessment Principles
Tutor/Assessors should apply the mark schemes positively. Learners must be
rewarded for what they have shown they can do.
Tutor/Assessors should mark according to the mark scheme
Tutor/Assessors should always award full marks if these are deserved, ie if
the answer matches the mark scheme. Half marks may not be awarded.
Where assessors are required to make a judgement for example in short
answer questions, examples will be provided of possible answers that may be
credited.
Responses that are correct but outside the box may be credited.
Learners will not be penalised for incorrect spelling as long as meaning is
clear.
Task A Mark Scheme Text A Question Correct Answer Marks Available Marks
Awarded
1. c 1 mark
2. a 1 mark
3. egg 1 mark
4. Accept cheese, beans or tuna 1 mark
Total Marks Available 4 marks
Text B Mark Scheme and Guidance Question Correct Answer Marks Available Marks
Awarded
5. Tuesday 1 mark
6. (opposite/near) Bus station 1 mark
7. 12.30 1 mark
8. After 6 o’clock 1 mark
Total Marks Available 4 marks
Task B Mark Scheme
Text A
Question Correct Answer Marks Available Marks
Awarded
1. Saturday 31st 1 mark
2. 8 (pm) 1 mark
3. Longborne Community Hall –
accept hall
1 mark
4. a 1 mark
Total Marks Available 4 marks
Text B
Question Correct Answer Marks Available Marks
Awarded
5. she cannot come/go (to the
party)
1 mark
6. family 1 mark
7. cousin 1 mark
8. London 1 mark
Total Marks Available 4 marks
E1 Task A Reading Skill Standards Coverage
Read and understand straightforward texts that explain, inform or recount
information
Criterion Description Coverage
E2 1a Read and understand
simple regular words and
sentences.
Text A Questions 1,2,3,4
Text B Questions 1,2,3,4
E2 1b Understand short texts on
familiar topics and
experiences.
Text A Questions 1,2,3,4
Text B Questions 1,2,3,4
E1 Task B Skill Standards Coverage
Read and understand the purpose and content of straightforward texts that
explain, inform and recount information
Criterion Description Coverage (Task/question)
1a Understand the main points of texts. Text A Question 1
Text B Question 11
1b Obtain specific information through
detailed reading.
Text A Questions 2, 3, 4, 5,
6
Text B Questions 7, 8, 9,
10
1c Use organisational features to locate
information.
Text A Questions 4, 5,
headings
Text B Questions 7, 8, 9,
10 paragraphs
1d Read and understand texts in different
formats using strategies/techniques
appropriate to the task.
Text A Advertisement
Text B Formal letter
English - Writing
Entry 1
Fill in your name, date of birth and registration number in the boxes below.
Surname: Other Names:
Gateway Qualifications registration number: DOB:
Centre Name:
My signature confirms that I will not discuss the content of this assessment with anyone.
Signature:
Record Sheet: Entry Level 1 English Writing
Task Task
Date of sitting Date of sitting
Content Content
Punctuation Punctuation
Spelling Spelling
Total Mark Total Mark
Pass Mark 7 Total Mark of both tasks /12 Pass/Fail
Tutor signature
General guidance for the conduct of controlled assessment writing
tasks
All assessments must be taken under controlled conditions. This means that the
learner must be supervised at all times during the assessment.
Learners must be provided with a suitably quiet, undisturbed location, with adequate
heating and lighting. The accommodation normally used by learners may be used for
assessment. There is no need to remove posters, displays or materials containing
information relevant to what is being assessed. However, materials should not
provide a prepared answer to the task.
There is a choice of tasks for writing. Learners must complete two tasks. They may
complete any two of the six tasks provided to enable centres to choose tasks
appropriate for their learners. The two tasks do not need to be completed in the same
session.
The tasks have been designed in a way that enables centres to adapt them to meet
local needs. This means that centres may adapt the context of a task. For example
centres may changes locations, names and type of events but not the purpose or
audience of a task. Where centres adapt a task they must use the mark scheme
provided by Gateway Qualifications.
If the assessment takes place over more than one session, learners’ materials must
be collected in at the end of each session, stored securely and handed back at the
beginning of the next session. The completed assessment record sheets and
assessment evidence must be retained at the end of the controlled assessment for
verification purposes.
Learners with agreed particular requirements, in relation to their mode of learning or
assessment, can have their usual support, unless this compromises the outcome of
the assessment. Those providing assistance should refer to appropriate access
regulations detailed in the specification.
Learners may have access to a dictionary.
Assessors may read/explain the rubrics on the tasks and explain any difficult words
in stimulus material by paraphrasing or redefining. However, they must not suggest
responses to the tasks.
Before learners begin the controlled assessment tasks, tutors should help learners
become familiar with the various words and phrases used on the paper for example
“Fill in the form”. You must write in full sentences.
Learners have 45 minutes to complete the two tasks.
Guidance for learners
The following information should be read/ given to learners before each controlled
assessment session begins. If the tasks are spread over more than one session tutors
should repeat the information.
Read each question carefully.
Make sure you know what to do before to start to write your answers. Ask your tutor if
you are not sure.
Write your answers in the spaces provided for each task.
Use a pen with blue or black ink.
You may use a dictionary.
You must answer two tasks.
There are 6 marks for each task.
Check your work carefully at the end of each task.
Remember to use capital letters and full stops where you need to.
Tutors should also explain to learners that the suggested number of words for each task is
for guidance and they will not be penalised for answers which are longer or shorter. They
must cover all the points given in the task.
Two sample tasks are provided below
Sample Task A – New Class
This form is given to students joining a new class.
Fill in the form.
Use capital letters and full stops where you need to.
Student information form
Full name:
Tell us 4 things about yourself (e.g. what you do in your free time, what you like,
what you don’t like). Use full sentences. Write between 20 and 30 words
(6 Marks)
Sample Task B – Moving House
A friend is thinking about moving to a new area. She wants to know about the area
where you live.
Say where you live.
Write 2 sentences about the area.
Write 1 sentence about what you like about the area.
Write an email of between 20 and 30 words.
You must write in full sentences.
Use capital letters and full stops where you need to.
You do not need to fill in the ‘From’ and ‘To’ boxes.
(6 Marks)
Hi
Where I live
General Marking Guidance and Assessment Principles
Assessors should apply the mark schemes positively. Learners must be rewarded
for what they have shown they can do.
Assessors should mark according to the mark scheme.
Assessors should always award full marks if these are deserved, ie if the answer
matches the mark scheme. Half marks may not be awarded.
There is a suggested word count for each task. Learners will not be penalised for
responses which are longer or shorter than the suggested number of words. It is the
quality not the quantity of work that affects the assessment outcomes. Assessors
must judge whether learners have met the relevant assessment criteria.
Entry 1 Writing mark scheme
This grid is to be applied to each task separately. 6 marks are available for
each task.
Content
Candidate communicates task producing most of information required using words and phrases appropriate at Entry 1.
2 marks
Candidate communicates task producing some relevant pieces of information using words and phrases appropriate at Entry 1.
1 mark
Insufficient information or no information worthy of credit 0 marks
Punctuation
Candidate uses initial capital letters and full stops throughout.
2 marks
Candidate uses initial capital letters and full stops in most instances
1 mark
Initial capital letters and full stops rarely or not used. 0 marks
Spelling
Personal and familiar words at Entry 1 are spelt correctly
2 marks
Most personal and familiar words are spelt correctly. Spelling errors do not impede communication
1 mark
Spelling errors are such that communication is not achieved
0 marks
12 marks are available across the two tasks. The pass mark for Entry 1 writing
is 7
Entry 1 Writing Skill Standards Coverage
Write short, simple sentences
Criterion Description Coverage (Task/question)
1a Use written words and phrases to present
information.
Task A and B
2 marks x2
1b Construct simple sentences using full
stops.
Task A and B
2 marks x2
1c Spell correctly some personal or very
familiar words.
Task A and B
2 marks x2
