Option 2B Modern times exam tips

Exam tips

• War, politics and social change A-Level Literature exam tip 1

  Open with a debatable literary argument, not a plot summary. Apply this to analyse literary responses to war, political upheaval, resistance and rebellion after 1945..

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

• War, politics and social change A-Level Literature exam tip 1

  Open with a debatable literary argument, not a plot summary. Apply this to explore imperial, post-imperial and nationalist contexts through textual evidence..

  This protects literary context vs biography or criticism, keeps AO1 to AO5 accurate and prevents invented quotations or option mixing.

• War, politics and social change A-Level Literature exam tip 1

  Open with a debatable literary argument, not a plot summary. Apply this to compare how texts construct political change and its consequences..

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

• Identity and changing structures A-Level Literature exam tip 1

  Open with a debatable literary argument, not a plot summary. Apply this to analyse representations of personal and social identity..

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

• Identity and changing structures A-Level Literature exam tip 1

  Open with a debatable literary argument, not a plot summary. Apply this to explore changing morality and social structures through gender, class, race and ethnicity..

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

• Identity and changing structures A-Level Literature exam tip 1

  Open with a debatable literary argument, not a plot summary. Apply this to evaluate how modern and contemporary forms shape responses to these issues..

  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 2B..

  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 official core poetry choices for Option 2B..

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