English exam structure
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- English language exam structure (Higher)
- Q1
- "What do you understand about _____ in source one."
- Always on source 1
- 12 minutes
- Offer evidence that the text is fully understood
- Show a detailed engagement with the text
- Make perceptive connections and comments about the issues presented in the text
- Offer appropriate quotations or references to support understanding
- "What do you understand about _____ in source one."
- Q2
- "Explain how the headline and picture are effective and how they link to the text."
- Always source 2
- 12 minutes
- Offer a detailed interpretation of the effects of the headline
- Presents a detailed explanation and interpretation of what the picture shows and its effects
- Link the picture and the headline to the text with perceptive comments
- Offer appropriate quotations or references to support comments
- "Explain how the headline and picture are effective and how they link to the text."
- Q3
- Engage in detail with the events described in the text
- Offer perceptive explanations and interpretations of the thoughts and feelings expressed.
- Employ appropriate quotations or references to support ideas
- "Explain some of the thoughts and feelings the writer has."
- Always source 3
- 12 minutes
- Q4
- "Compare the language features in source 3 and either 1 or 2"
- Always source 3 and either 1 or 2
- Offer a full and detailed understanding of the texts in relation to language
- Analyse how the writers have used language to achieve their effects in the different contexts
- Offer appropriate quotations in support of ideas with perceptive comments
- Focuses on comparison and cross-referencing of language between the texts
- "Compare the language features in source 3 and either 1 or 2"
- Q5
- "Write a[n] _____ which decribes ________"
- Could be a[n]: * Blog entry * Newspaper article * Website * Poster * Letter (So be prepared for anything)
- Communication
- Communicate in a way which is convincing, and increasingly compelling
- Form, content and style should be consistently matched to purpose and audience, and becoming assuredly matched
- Make it engaging for the reader with structured and developed writing, with an increasingly wide range of integrated and complex details
- Write in a formal way, employing a tone that is appropriately serious but also manipulative, subtle and increasingly abstract
- Use linguistic devices, such as the rhetorical question, hyperbole, irony and satire, in a consciously crafted way that is increasingly sustained
- Show control of extensive vocabulary, with word choices becoming increasingly ambitious
- Q6
- Always an argument
- Always links to the inserts
- 35 Minutes
- Always an argument
- Organisation of ideas
- Fluently link paragraphs and seamlessly integrated discursive markers
- Use a variety of structural features, for example, different paragraph lengths, indented sections, dialogue, bullet points, in an increasingly inventive way
- presents complex ideas in a coherent way
- Q6
- Always an argument
- Always links to the inserts
- 35 Minutes
- Always an argument
- "Write a[n] _____ which decribes ________"
- Q1
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