Qualification and assessment structure exam tips

Exam tips

• Paper 1 assessment A-Level Literature exam tip 1

  Open with a debatable literary argument, not a plot summary. Apply this to apply the open-book rule only to the comparative prose and poetry section..

  This protects writer vs narrator, and poet vs speaker, keeps AO1 to AO5 accurate and prevents invented quotations or option mixing.

• Paper 2 assessment A-Level Literature exam tip 1

  Open with a debatable literary argument, not a plot summary. Apply this to describe Paper 2 as a two-hour-thirty-minute open-book examination worth 75 marks and 40 percent of the A-level..

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

• Paper 2 assessment A-Level Literature exam tip 1

  Open with a debatable literary argument, not a plot summary. Apply this to distinguish Option 2A WW1 and its aftermath from Option 2B Modern times..

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

• Paper 2 assessment A-Level Literature exam tip 1

  Open with a debatable literary argument, not a plot summary. Apply this to explain that students study one prose, one poetry and one drama text, with at least one written post-2000..

  This protects writer vs narrator, and poet vs speaker, keeps AO1 to AO5 accurate and prevents invented quotations or option mixing.

• Paper 2 assessment A-Level Literature exam tip 1

  Open with a debatable literary argument, not a plot summary. Apply this to distinguish the single set-text essay, unseen contextual-linking response and comparative essay..

  This protects unseen passage evidence vs prepared set-text material, keeps AO1 to AO5 accurate and prevents invented quotations or option mixing.

• Non-exam assessment A-Level Literature exam tip 1

  Open with a debatable literary argument, not a plot summary. Apply this to describe the non-exam assessment as a comparative critical study of two texts worth 50 marks and 20 percent of the A-level..

  This protects supported interpretation vs unsupported opinion, keeps AO1 to AO5 accurate and prevents invented quotations or option mixing.

• Non-exam assessment A-Level Literature exam tip 1

  Open with a debatable literary argument, not a plot summary. Apply this to explain that at least one selected text must be written pre-1900..

  This protects exam set text vs NEA-eligible text, keeps AO1 to AO5 accurate and prevents invented quotations or option mixing.

• Non-exam assessment A-Level Literature exam tip 1

  Open with a debatable literary argument, not a plot summary. Apply this to produce one extended comparative essay of 2500 words and a bibliography..

  This protects exam set text vs NEA-eligible text, keeps AO1 to AO5 accurate and prevents invented quotations or option mixing.

• Non-exam assessment A-Level Literature exam tip 1

  Open with a debatable literary argument, not a plot summary. Apply this to apply all five assessment objectives to the independent critical study..

  This protects exam set text vs NEA-eligible text, keeps AO1 to AO5 accurate and prevents invented quotations or option mixing.