Independent literary responses exam tips

Exam tips

• Text selection requirements A-Level Literature exam tip 1

  Open with a debatable literary argument, not a plot summary. Apply this to select one poetry text and one prose text for independent study..

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

• Text selection requirements A-Level Literature exam tip 1

  Open with a debatable literary argument, not a plot summary. Apply this to exclude texts from all A-Level examination set-text lists..

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

• Text selection requirements A-Level Literature exam tip 1

  Open with a debatable literary argument, not a plot summary. Apply this to select texts that support different Critical anthology approaches and a range of interpretations..

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

• Conventional essay A-Level Literature exam tip 1

  Open with a debatable literary argument, not a plot summary. Apply this to construct a conventional essay of 1250 to 1500 words on one selected text..

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

• Conventional essay A-Level Literature exam tip 1

  Open with a debatable literary argument, not a plot summary. Apply this to use a Critical anthology section to inform, not replace, independent textual analysis..

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

• Conventional essay A-Level Literature exam tip 1

  Open with a debatable literary argument, not a plot summary. Apply this to explore potential meanings through a sustained literary argument..

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

• Re-creative response A-Level Literature exam tip 1

  Open with a debatable literary argument, not a plot summary. Apply this to use a re-creative response to offer a critical reading of the base text..

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

• Re-creative response A-Level Literature exam tip 1

  Open with a debatable literary argument, not a plot summary. Apply this to make purposeful choices about narrative voice, genre and perspective..

  This protects genre pattern vs fixed feature checklist, keeps AO1 to AO5 accurate and prevents invented quotations or option mixing.

• Re-creative response A-Level Literature exam tip 1

  Open with a debatable literary argument, not a plot summary. Apply this to connect creative choices to ideas from the selected Critical anthology section..

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

• Re-creative commentary A-Level Literature exam tip 1

  Open with a debatable literary argument, not a plot summary. Apply this to explain the significant choices made in the re-creative piece..

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