Paper 1 Question 4: evaluation — AQA GCSE English Language 8700
AQA GCSE English Language · 8700
Paper 1 Question 4: evaluation
Paper 1 reading questions
What you need to know
The 20-mark evaluation question: how far you agree with a statement about the second part of the extract, from June 2026 without the imaginary student who made it.
Building an argument that judges the statement and analyses the writer's methods, in about 20 minutes.
The worked example uses the opening of D. H. Lawrence's short story 'Odour of Chrysanthemums' (1914), printed in the lesson.
What separates the levels, in our own words, and a model answer with the level and mark an examiner would give, and why.
