An Inspector Calls exam question — Eduqas GCSE English Literature C720
Eduqas GCSE English Literature · C720
An Inspector Calls exam question
What you need to know
How Eduqas's post-1914 question works: one essay on the text studied, with an extract of about half a page printed under the question, worth 40 marks: 35 for AO1 and AO2 equally and 5 for spelling, punctuation, vocabulary and sentence structure (AO4).
How to plan and write the essay, using An Inspector Calls as the worked example, with a model answer and commentary.
A question set out as Eduqas sets it, with its wording and marks; the extract printed under it is summarised and quoted in short phrases rather than reproduced.
Component 2 Section A: closed book, about 45 minutes.
Quoting in a closed-book essay: short, precise quotations of a few words, woven into sentences, rather than long passages.
The extract is a starting point, not the task: the essay ranges across the whole play, with short quotations from memory, and analyses how Priestley uses language, form and dramatic methods; context isn't marked here.
A model answer with the band and mark an examiner would give and why, and a Grade 5 and a Grade 8 paragraph side by side.
The Summer 2025 question on Gerald, and the ideas the mark scheme and examiners' report reward.
Spelling the characters' and the writer's names correctly, for the AO4 marks.
