Jane Eyre extract question — AQA GCSE English Literature 8702
AQA GCSE English Literature · 8702
Jane Eyre 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 Jane Eyre 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.
The worked example: the June 2023 question on how far the novel is about Jane's search for happiness, starting from Chapter 38, where Jane looks back on ten years of marriage.
A model answer of about 800 words, with its extract printed, that uses the extract and the whole novel.
Moments across the novel to set against the extract, such as 'I was a discord in Gateshead Hall', 'wherever you are is my home—my only home', 'I care for myself' and 'Glorious discovery to a lonely wretch!'.
The level the model answer would reach and why, with a Grade 5 and a Grade 8 paragraph side by side.
