Examiner's report by Neil Hussey https://padlet.com/nhussey1973/exrep Made with an open mind en-us 2019-05-13 07:23:37 UTC 2025-10-22 22:49:06 UTC hello@padlet.com The two key essentials for success are:• thorough knowledge of the set texts• answering the questions in all their details. https://padlet.com/nhussey1973/exrep/wish/359386992 2019-05-13 09:42:16 UTC https://padlet.com/nhussey1973/exrep/wish/359386992 Students need to think carefully about the questions and plan what they are going to say, before starting to write https://padlet.com/nhussey1973/exrep/wish/359387194 2019-05-13 09:43:24 UTC https://padlet.com/nhussey1973/exrep/wish/359387194 There are no hidden requirements that students have to try to guess or requirements that are not asked in the questions. When students focus sharply, keep to the task and construct a relevant argument, they do well. They do less well when they try to use extraneous material, unrelated context https://padlet.com/nhussey1973/exrep/wish/359387372 2019-05-13 09:44:20 UTC https://padlet.com/nhussey1973/exrep/wish/359387372 Shakespeare passage question https://padlet.com/nhussey1973/exrep/wish/359387429  In all extract based questions, students should see that it is telling a part of a story, which has its own mini narrative, while belonging at the same time to a much bigger whole. Students need to engage with the narrative that is taking place. ]]> 2019-05-13 09:44:42 UTC https://padlet.com/nhussey1973/exrep/wish/359387429 section a mollhar https://padlet.com/nhussey1973/exrep/wish/359387500 A considerable number of responses did not seem to reach the end of the extract ]]> 2019-05-13 09:45:05 UTC https://padlet.com/nhussey1973/exrep/wish/359387500 https://padlet.com/nhussey1973/exrep/wish/359387561  Centres should prepare their students to use the information in the preamble carefully and not rush to answer the extract. ]]> 2019-05-13 09:45:24 UTC https://padlet.com/nhussey1973/exrep/wish/359387561 The word ‘significance’ is used in the Shakespeare passage based question https://padlet.com/nhussey1973/exrep/wish/359387588 2019-05-13 09:45:31 UTC https://padlet.com/nhussey1973/exrep/wish/359387588 section a mollhar https://padlet.com/nhussey1973/exrep/wish/359387769 This specification prioritises narrative methods that engage with voice, setting, and structure as higher order skills than writing about individual words and phrases. ]]> 2019-05-13 09:46:17 UTC https://padlet.com/nhussey1973/exrep/wish/359387769 https://padlet.com/nhussey1973/exrep/wish/359387781  This specification prioritises narrative methods that engage with voice, setting, and structure as higher order skills than writing about individual words and phrases. ]]> 2019-05-13 09:46:20 UTC https://padlet.com/nhussey1973/exrep/wish/359387781 https://padlet.com/nhussey1973/exrep/wish/359387861  Although Papers 1 are closed book exams and Papers 2 open book, there is an expectation on both papers that students have secure textual knowledge. Those students who had a clear sense of the order of events in their texts (who knew how the stories of the texts begin and end and where climaxes and crises occur) had a clear advantage over those who did not ]]> 2019-05-13 09:46:44 UTC https://padlet.com/nhussey1973/exrep/wish/359387861 section a mollhar https://padlet.com/nhussey1973/exrep/wish/359387916 connect to genre elements and discuss relevant ideas. ]]> 2019-05-13 09:46:57 UTC https://padlet.com/nhussey1973/exrep/wish/359387916 Dramatic / authorial methods https://padlet.com/nhussey1973/exrep/wish/359387952 Bolted on material / in-depth analysis of single words = bad 
Integrated & relevant comments which link to genre = good]]> 2019-05-13 09:47:06 UTC https://padlet.com/nhussey1973/exrep/wish/359387952 answer the question https://padlet.com/nhussey1973/exrep/wish/359388179 2019-05-13 09:48:02 UTC https://padlet.com/nhussey1973/exrep/wish/359388179 section a mollhar https://padlet.com/nhussey1973/exrep/wish/359388192 the best responses saw methods and produced sharply focused writing. ]]> 2019-05-13 09:48:06 UTC https://padlet.com/nhussey1973/exrep/wish/359388192 section b mollhar https://padlet.com/nhussey1973/exrep/wish/359388346 must construct a debate in response to a given view, writing must be thoughtful and clear, engaging personally with the ideas put forward]]> 2019-05-13 09:48:46 UTC https://padlet.com/nhussey1973/exrep/wish/359388346 focusing on narrative and on particular function words https://padlet.com/nhussey1973/exrep/wish/359388372  The most perceptive answers were able to hone in on ambiguity and interpret it in relation to earlier parts of the narrative. ]]> 2019-05-13 09:48:53 UTC https://padlet.com/nhussey1973/exrep/wish/359388372 Shakespeare extract question https://padlet.com/nhussey1973/exrep/wish/359388425  Although it is important to refer to the wider play, the comments must connect directly with the extract. Some students for example in their writing about the Othello extract unprofitably wrote more about Othello, who does not appear in the extract, than Iago and Roderigo, who do. ]]> 2019-05-13 09:49:02 UTC https://padlet.com/nhussey1973/exrep/wish/359388425 https://padlet.com/nhussey1973/exrep/wish/360418459 Sss]]> 2019-05-15 16:06:52 UTC https://padlet.com/nhussey1973/exrep/wish/360418459