Paper 2 Question 5: synthesis — Edexcel GCSE English Language 2.0 1EN2
Edexcel GCSE English Language 2.0 · 1EN2
Paper 2 Question 5: synthesis
Paper 2 reading questions
What you need to know
The 6-mark AO1 question on both texts: a summary of three separate ways the experiences in the two texts are similar, each backed by evidence from both.
Choosing three distinct similarities that answer the question, keeping to similarities, and answering concisely, since the marks are few.
The worked example uses two linked texts about surviving extreme cold, both printed in the lesson: Text 1 from Ernest Shackleton's account of his Antarctic expedition, 'South' (1919), and Text 2 from Jack London's short story 'To Build a Fire' (1908).
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.
