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Unfamiliar text: close reading · Part 2 of 3
4 exam-style questions with model answers, plus 3 quick multi-choice questions — every question on this part of the standard, grouped by the 1 page of notes they come from.
Write a full answer before you reveal the model one. That comparison is where the learning happens.
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.