Component 1 Question 3: analysing a longer section — Eduqas GCSE English Language C700
Eduqas GCSE English Language · C700
Component 1 Question 3: analysing a longer section
Component 1 reading questions
What you need to know
The 10-mark AO2 question on a longer section, such as how the writer shows a character's thoughts and feelings: tracking the lines in order, explaining what is said and how the writer's language shows it.
Planning and writing within the 50 minutes the paper suggests for answering Section A, 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.
