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14 exam-style questions with model answers, plus 12 quick multi-choice questions — every question on the site for this standard, grouped by the 4 pages of notes they come from.
Write a full answer before you reveal the model one — that comparison is where the marks come from. Every block links back to the notes that teach it.
Using the gorse passage, analyse how the writer conveys the father's situation. Aim for a reasoned and clear interpretation.
Using the gorse passage, analyse how the writer uses sentence structure to convey the father's situation. Aim for a reasoned and clear interpretation.
Using the gorse passage, analyse how the writer conveys the father's situation. Aim for an insightful and/or original interpretation.
Using the gorse passage, analyse how the writer conveys the father's situation. Aim for an insightful and/or original interpretation.
Explain what makes an aspect significant rather than merely noticeable, and how you can test the difference under exam conditions.
Using the gorse passage, analyse two significant aspects and show how each governs the meaning of the extract. Aim for a reasoned and clear interpretation.
Discuss why the most noticeable feature in a text is so often the least significant, and what that implies about how you should read under time pressure.
Explain why the most noticeable feature of a text is so often not its most significant one, and what a reader should do about it. Aim for an insightful and/or original interpretation.
Explain how to break a stem before reading the text, and why doing it in that order improves the answer.
A student plans to spend 30 minutes on the question they find most interesting and split the remaining 30 between the other two. Explain why this plan will cost them marks and what they should do instead. Aim for a reasoned and clear answer.
The paper gives roughly twenty minutes and two booklet pages per question. Discuss what that constraint tells you about how an answer should be built.
Explain why reading the stem before the text, and deciding your reading in one sentence before writing, change the quality of an answer. Aim for an insightful and/or original answer.
Analyse how the poet conveys what has been lost in "Shelterbelt". Aim for a reasoned and clear interpretation.
Analyse how the writer of the column challenges the reader's thinking about safety. Aim for an insightful and/or original interpretation.