Assessment

Reading (50%)

AO1

• Identify and interpret explicit information and ideas

• Select and synthesise evidence from different texts

AO2

• Explain, comment on and analyse how writers use language and structure to achieve effects and influence readers, using relevant subject terminology to support their views

AO3

• Compare writers’ ideas and perspectives, as well as how these are conveyed, across two or more texts

AO4

• Evaluate texts critically and support this with appropriate textual references

Writing (50%)

A05

• Communicate clearly, effectively and imaginatively, selecting and adapting tone, style and register for different forms, purposes and audiences

• Organise information and ideas, using structural and grammatical features to support coherence and cohesion of texts

AO6

• Candidates must use a range of vocabulary and sentence structures for clarity, purpose and effect, with accurate spelling and punctuation. (This requirement must constitute 20% of the marks for each specification as a whole.)

Spoken Language

AO7

• Demonstrate presentation skills in a formal setting

AO8

• Listen and respond appropriately to spoken language, including to questions and feedback to presentations

AO9

• Use spoken Standard English effectively in speeches and presentations.

Objectives

Best Answers

AO2

Shows perceptive and detailed understanding of language. Analyses the effects of the writer’s choices of language Selects a range of judicious textual detail. Makes sophisticated and accurate use of subject terminology

AO4

Shows perceptive and detailed evaluation. Evaluates critically and in detail the effect(s) on the reader. Shows perceptive understanding of writer’s methods. Selects a range of judicious textual detail. Develops a convincing and critical response to the focus of the statement

AO5

Content

• Communication is convincing and compelling

• Tone, style and register are assuredly matched to purpose and audience

  Organisation

• Varied and inventive use of structural features

• Writing is compelling, incorporating a range of convincing and complex ideas

• Fluently linked paragraphs with seamlessly integrated discourse markers

AO6

• Sentence demarcation is consistently secure and consistently accurate

• Wide range of punctuation is used with a high level of accuracy

• Uses a full range of appropriate sentence forms for effect

• Uses Standard English consistently and appropriately with secure control of complex grammatical structures

• High level of accuracy in spelling, including ambitious vocabulary

•  Extensive and ambitious use of vocabulary