Option 2A WW1 and its aftermath exam tips

Exam tips

• Conflict and wartime experience A-Level Literature exam tip 1

  Open with a debatable literary argument, not a plot summary. Apply this to analyse representations of combatants, non-combatants and wartime experience..

  This protects analysis vs plot summary, keeps AO1 to AO5 accurate and prevents invented quotations or option mixing.

• Conflict and wartime experience A-Level Literature exam tip 1

  Open with a debatable literary argument, not a plot summary. Apply this to explore recruitment, propaganda, nationalism, pacifism, slaughter and heroism..

  This protects analysis vs plot summary, keeps AO1 to AO5 accurate and prevents invented quotations or option mixing.

• Conflict and wartime experience A-Level Literature exam tip 1

  Open with a debatable literary argument, not a plot summary. Apply this to compare writers in action with writers looking back on conflict..

  This protects connected comparison vs two separate mini-essays, keeps AO1 to AO5 accurate and prevents invented quotations or option mixing.

• Aftermath and memory A-Level Literature exam tip 1

  Open with a debatable literary argument, not a plot summary. Apply this to analyse political, social, personal and literary legacies of WW1..

  This protects Paper 2 option 2A vs option 2B, keeps AO1 to AO5 accurate and prevents invented quotations or option mixing.

• Aftermath and memory A-Level Literature exam tip 1

  Open with a debatable literary argument, not a plot summary. Apply this to compare changing attitudes to conflict across texts and generations..

  This protects connected comparison vs two separate mini-essays, keeps AO1 to AO5 accurate and prevents invented quotations or option mixing.

• Aftermath and memory A-Level Literature exam tip 1

  Open with a debatable literary argument, not a plot summary. Apply this to evaluate how peace, memorialisation and retrospective narration shape meaning..

  This protects analysis vs plot summary, keeps AO1 to AO5 accurate and prevents invented quotations or option mixing.

• Core prose and drama choices A-Level Literature exam tip 1

  Open with a debatable literary argument, not a plot summary. Apply this to identify the official core prose and drama choices for Option 2A..

  This protects Paper 2 option 2A vs option 2B, keeps AO1 to AO5 accurate and prevents invented quotations or option mixing.

• Core prose and drama choices A-Level Literature exam tip 1

  Open with a debatable literary argument, not a plot summary. Apply this to study the selected core text through methods, shared context, connections and interpretations..

  This protects diachronic study vs synchronic shared-context study, keeps AO1 to AO5 accurate and prevents invented quotations or option mixing.

• Core prose and drama choices A-Level Literature exam tip 1

  Open with a debatable literary argument, not a plot summary. Apply this to keep the core text used in Section A out of the Section B comparison..

  This protects analysis vs plot summary, keeps AO1 to AO5 accurate and prevents invented quotations or option mixing.

• Core poetry choices A-Level Literature exam tip 1

  Open with a debatable literary argument, not a plot summary. Apply this to identify the two official core poetry choices for Option 2A..

  This protects Paper 2 option 2A vs option 2B, keeps AO1 to AO5 accurate and prevents invented quotations or option mixing.