English Paper 1 Section A

Locating and Retrieving Information

Ask you to locate and retrieve information from the text
Test your ability to spot relevant deatails
Usually phrased in one of two ways:
- What clues or details can you find to prove or show something?
- What evidence can you find to prove or show something?
You can list your answer in Bullet Points
You don't have to use PEE (Point, Evidence. Explanation)

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Asks you to make personal comments on the passage ypu have just read
Focuses on a character, relationship or place
Usually phrased in one of three ways:
- What do you learn about a character or relationship
- What impressions do you get of a character, or a relationship or a place
- What are your thoughts and feelings about a character, relationship or place
You have to be able to use PEE and inference to answer these questions

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Requires you to show your understanding of a character's thoughts, feelings or actions
Approach the question with a clear sense of sequence
Usually phrased in one of four ways:
- What are the characters thoughts or feelings?
- What is going through the character's mind?
- How does a character react, behave or change?
- Why does a character act or behave in a certain way?

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Usually phrased in one of four ways:
- How does the writer convey, create, make or suggest?
- What happens in these lines? How and why do you react to what happens?
- How effective is the ending?
- What are your thoughts and feelings as you read these lines?
Use PEE
These questions are some of the hardest, so try to be empathetic with the author, and study closely what effect the techniques used, e.g. allitteration might affect you as a reader

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Also appear in the English Literature exam
Require you to imagine that you are a character in a story and to give that character's version of events
You may be asked to write in the form of a diary
Think about these key points as you write:
- What does the character know?
- What would be important to that character?
- How would the character react to these events?
- What language or 'voice' would this character use, there's no use using an extended vocablary for a 5-year-old boy...

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