Paper 2 Question 7b: comparing ideas and perspectives — Edexcel GCSE English Language 1EN0
Edexcel GCSE English Language · 1EN0
Paper 2 Question 7b: comparing ideas and perspectives
Paper 2 reading questions
What you need to know
The 14-mark AO3 question: comparing how the two writers present their ideas and perspectives on a shared theme, across both whole texts.
Integrated comparison of ideas, perspectives and the methods that convey them, balanced across both texts, within Section A's 1 hour 20 minutes.
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.
