Correct a weak response to this AQA English Language objective: Make inferences about characters, settings, events and relationships in a fiction source.

Make inferences about characters, settings, response: A weak response usually summarises, guesses, or names a method without effect. Improve it by choosing evidence, explaining the effect, and linking the point to audience, purpose or writer purpose method. For Understanding fiction sources, keep one clear focus, select brief evidence or a planned example, explain the method or writing choice, and link the point to effect, audience, purpose, form or tone where relevant.

This is effective because it makes the mistake correction, evidence, explanation and assessment objective visible. Replace summary with a precise point, brief evidence, method, effect and writer purpose so the correction is exam-ready. Make inferences about characters, settings, events should use brief evidence and explain what that evidence implies, so the inference is not just explicit summary. Understanding fiction sources should plan audience, purpose, form, tone, viewpoint, content and structure before drafting.