Component 1 Question 2: first impressions — Eduqas GCSE English Language C700
Eduqas GCSE English Language · C700
Component 1 Question 2: first impressions
Component 1 reading questions
What you need to know
The 5-mark AO2 question on a short section: the impressions the writer creates of a character, each supported by a quotation and a brief comment on its language, with subject terminology where it helps.
Being thorough but concise, and using the marks as a guide to time.
The worked example uses Saki's complete short story 'The Open Window' (1914), printed in the lesson.
What separates the mark ranges, 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.
