Question

Gonsalvez Secondary School is organizing a dance competition. As the head of the cultural committee, you need to create a notice to inform all the students regarding this event.

Which of the following will be least suitable to include in the notice?

A)Urgent!
B)Date 25th October 2016
C)Gonsalvez Secondary School
D)Rupa Mahesh

Answer 1

Hint: Notice writing is an official message and hence is written formally.

Complete step-by-step answer:

In this question we are presented with a notice and must see from the options given the option that does not follow the method of writing a notice.
For this, let us try and understand what a notice is.
A notice is an official message released by an authority regarding some important rule, event, missing item or person etc. The format of a notice is formal.
Take a look at the format of a formal notice as given below for better understanding of the topic.
Name of the organization
NOTICE
Date
Heading
(leave a line)
Content
(leave a line)
Name
Designation

From the format it is clearly understood that Option B, C and D are used in the notice. Option A, ‘Urgent!’ is an informal language that will not be used in a notice. Hence, the correct answer is option A.

Note: It is advised to know the format of the notice to answer such questions easily. If you are in a situation where you are unaware of the format, try the elimination method and cross out all the options that are correct.