![]() (4) Do your Paper 1 essay next – remember at 36%, this is worth over a third of your marks this year!! Options for Paper 1 essay include speeches, articles, personal essay, descriptive essays and short stories. For a 15mQ, write 3 points/ 3 paragraphs and for a 20mQ, write 4 points/4 paragraphs.įor QB, make sure you follow the set tasks of the Q – in recent years, there have been 3 distinctive tasks set out within the Q. This year, due to the amendments, you have more time than every before to spend on this section – I would recommend 60 minutes for QA or 50 minutes for QB. You can use your Point, Support, Explain method for each paragraph. PLEASE NOTE that there is usually 2-3 tasks within the Q so label each one carefully and aim to do a paragraph on each. Try to be original with your points (or if appropriate, use humour-an amused examiner is a generous examiner!) as QBs often lack originality and can be quite mundane. Any more suggests an inability to write in a concise manner. You shouldn’t shy away from such choices if you like the task as they usually don’t demand a specific structure or format. However, they may also ask a QB that you have never encountered such as writing an election leaflet, a competition entry or a script of dialogue. The most commonly asked QB are letters, short speech/talk/article, interview, blog and diary entry. ![]() QB is a test of concise writing or condensed writing. It holds the same marks as Comprehension (14%). (3) QB is the other option that students have over QA this year of your Paper 1. Remember your understanding of the questions is crucial, so much so that I often advise my students to choose their QA on their familiarity with the questions that come up. What might initially look like a favourable option may not always contain favourable questions. Spend 5 minutes reading through them carefully. (2) When deciding on QA, make sure that you familiarise yourself with each text and with the questions which follow it before you decide which questions to attempt. You might be asked, for example, to write in the style of a newspaper article, a letter, a short story, a diary entry, or an interview script. Question B poses a writing task arising out of the text. You are expected here to show a good grasp of its content and to give your own response to it. QA contains a number of questions relating directly to the text. (1) Each text is followed by a QA and a QB. When choosing your QA OR QB, bear in mind the following points: The texts will be extracts from books, articles from newspapers or magazines, speeches and the picture text a set of photographs, covers of books or some other visual material. Normally, you are given three comprehensions, one of which may be a picture text (visual literacy). In this section you will be given three texts on various aspects of a specific theme (always written on the front of the paper in capital letters) such as young writers, challenges, influences, mystery or relationships. The comprehension section (QA OR QB) of Paper 1 is worth 40marks, which is 14% of your total mark for English. It’s coming up to exam time so here are a few tips for Paper 1…
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