Paper 2 Question 7a: synthesis — Edexcel GCSE English Language 1EN0
Edexcel GCSE English Language · 1EN0
Paper 2 Question 7a: synthesis
Paper 2 reading questions
What you need to know
The 6-mark AO1 question on both texts: drawing together the similarities the question asks about, with evidence from each text.
Keeping to similarities and to the question's focus, and answering concisely, since the marks are few.
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.
