Pride and Prejudice extract question — AQA GCSE English Literature 8702
AQA GCSE English Literature · 8702
Pride and Prejudice 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 Pride and Prejudice 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.
What the examiners rewarded in 2023: an argument set out from the start, references chosen to show the writer's methods, and context kept brief and tied to the question.
