Academic/General Training Module by Adam Smith First Published in 2015

 
Describing a subject 
Describe a subject that you think should be removed from school education 
programmes. You should say 
- what the subject is 
- why you think it is unnecessary for children to study it 
- and explain what you would replace it with. 
Here's a sample answer with band 7-9 vocabulary underlined: 

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I’m going to suggest that art could be taken out of the school curriculum. In my 
experience, art lessons at school tend to include drawing, painting, and the 
making of collages using paper, fabric and other household materials. There 
are a few reasons why I think that school art lessons are unnecessary. Firstly, I 
don’t believe that drawing and painting are essential skills that children will 
need when they leave school. Children might find these activities enjoyable, 
but it’s unlikely that they will need them in the working world. Secondly, 
children can draw, paint and make collages in their own time at home; parents 
can encourage this, and they can even join in. Finally, remembering my own art 
lessons at school, I don’t think we learnt any real art skills; the teachers left us 
to draw or create things, but they didn’t provide much technical instruction. 
Instead of art lessons, children could do more work on core subjects like 
maths, science or language. These subjects are more likely to help children in 
later life when they enter the job market, and I think both children and their 
teachers would benefit if more time were devoted to them.