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Level 3 Wine Written Questions

The written section is where most candidates lose marks, and it is the one part of studying that cannot be done by reading. Timed practice against the clock, with the model answer and its full mark allocation revealed the moment your time runs out.

Choose a region below. Every sitting draws a different set of questions, so you can return as often as you like and sit a fresh paper each time.

6 questions per sitting·5 minutes each·Model answers

How it works

Write, then mark yourself

Marks are awarded for explanation, not for lists of nouns. Learning to read the mark allocation and shape an answer to fit is worth as much as the knowledge itself.

I

A question appears

With its mark value, and a five-minute countdown.

II

You write

In full sentences, as you would in the exam. Finished early? Reveal it sooner.

III

The answer reveals

Your box locks and the model answer appears, broken into its mark points.

IV

You mark yourself

Tick what you actually wrote. Not what you meant to write.

Written Answer Practice: Bordeaux
Timed practice against the clock, with the model answer and its mark allocation revealed when your time runs out.
Six questions drawn at random from the Bordeaux bank. Five minutes each. When the timer ends your answer locks and the model answer appears with its mark allocation, and you mark yourself against it.
This sitting
6 questions, drawn at random from 20
Per question
5 minutes
Total
about 30 minutes
Marking
Self-marked against the model answer
Write in full sentences. Marks are awarded for explanation, not for lists of nouns. When the timer reaches zero your answer locks, which is the point. Nothing is saved between sittings, so finish one before you close the page.
Written Answer Practice: Northern Iberia
Timed practice against the clock, with the model answer and its mark allocation revealed when your time runs out.
Six questions drawn at random from the Rias Baixas, Rueda, Vinho Verde and Ribera Del Duero bank. Five minutes each. When the timer ends your answer locks and the model answer appears with its mark allocation, and you mark yourself against it.
This sitting
6 questions, drawn at random from 20
Per question
5 minutes
Total
about 30 minutes
Marking
Self-marked against the model answer
Write in full sentences. Marks are awarded for explanation, not for lists of nouns. When the timer reaches zero your answer locks, which is the point. Nothing is saved between sittings, so finish one before you close the page.

Getting the most from this

Three things worth knowing

Be strict with the tick boxes

If the mark is for explaining why gravel soils suit Cabernet Sauvignon and you wrote only "gravel soils", you did not earn it. Marking yourself generously feels better and teaches you nothing.

Watch the mark allocation

A six-mark question wants six developed points, not one long paragraph or twelve short ones. Read the marks, then shape the answer to fit them.

Come back and draw a fresh set

The gap between a first and a third sitting is usually not knowledge, it is fluency. Nothing is saved between sittings, so finish one before you close the page.

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Keep going

Written practice works best alongside the multiple choice quizzes, where the recall questions live. Between the two you cover both halves of the theory paper.

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