PAPER ONE - Tuesday June 2nd 2009, AM.
Paper One focusses on fiction.
Section A tests your READING skills.
You will be asked to read TWO articles, and then answer four questions.
A1 - this will normally be a simple search and find question on the first article.
A2 - this will normally be a PEE style question on the first article.
A3 - this will normally be a PEE style question on the second article.
A4 - this will normally be a PEE style question asking you to COMPARE the two articles.
Section B tests your WRITING skills.
There will be two questions. You should spend an equal amount of time on each - 30 minutes. They will normally have something to do with the two articles you have read.
The two tasks will each ask you to write in a different FORMAT for a different AUDIENCE.
Your exams and how this blog works
In your English lessons, you are studying for TWO GCSEs.
English
and English Literature.
English
60% exam (2 2-hour papers, Paper One and Paper Two)
20% speaking and listening coursework
20% written coursework (four essays: creative writing, transactional writing, Shakespeare, poems from other cultures)
English Literature
70% exam (one 2.5-hour paper consisting of three sections - one on a play, one on a novel, one on an unseen poem)
30% coursework (four essays: Shakespeare, poems from other cultures, pre-1914 poetry, pre-1914 prose)
The exam board is WJEC, the Welsh board.
This blog has been designed to help you understand and revise for all three papers. There is lots of information, tips, practice questions and links.If you look on the right, there is a list of labels. Click on these and it will direct you to all the information about that particular label. For example, click on An Inspector Calls and you will get four posts about the play, how to answer a question on it, key quotes, etc. Or, if you are worried about answering Section B type questions, click on that and you will get all the posts helping with that.
