Paper 2 Question 6: evaluation — Edexcel GCSE English Language 1EN0
Edexcel GCSE English Language · 1EN0
Paper 2 Question 6: evaluation
Paper 2 reading questions
What you need to know
The 15-mark AO4 question on Text 2: evaluating how successfully the writer achieves an aim the question names, with judgements supported by detailed references.
Keeping to Text 2 and to the aim in the question, and using the marks as a guide to time.
The worked example uses two linked texts about arriving at a workhouse casual ward for a night's shelter, both printed in the lesson: Text 1 from George Orwell's memoir 'Down and Out in Paris and London' (1933) and Text 2 from Jack London's 'The People of the Abyss' (1903).
What separates the levels, in our own words, and a model answer with the level and mark an examiner would give, and why.
A weaker and a stronger answer to the same task side by side, with what lifts the weaker one to the next level.
Sentence starters for the question and a short checklist of the steps, for students aiming at Grade 4 and above.
