Great Expectations extract question — AQA GCSE English Literature 8702
AQA GCSE English Literature · 8702
Great Expectations extract question
Exam skills
What you need to know
How the 19th-century novel question works: from the extract to the whole text, and the assessment objectives.
How to plan and structure an answer, using Great Expectations as the worked example, with a model answer and commentary.
A question set out as AQA sets it, with its wording and marks.
Paper 1 Section B: one extract question with no choice, closed book, about 50 minutes, with no marks for spelling, punctuation and grammar.
A model answer of about 800 words, with its extract printed, that uses the extract and the whole novel.
The level the model answer would reach and why, with a Grade 5 and a Grade 8 paragraph side by side.
The June 2023 question, on what Pip learns about what really matters in life, from an extract in Chapter 58, and the ideas and methods the mark scheme rewards for it.
When the extract comes from late in the novel: bringing in earlier moments, such as Joe's visit to London and Magwitch's return, before returning to the extract.
