paper 2 - q1 and q2

Question 1

What does question 1 asses?

Answer 1

ao1 - find information

Question 2

What are the sources for this paper?

Answer 2

• non-fiction
• different centuries, different genres
• themes that have changed over the time

Question 3

What does question 2 asses?

Answer 3

ao1 - test ability to find information and ideas in two sources and sum,marise what you find

Question 4

What shouldn’t you do in q2?

Answer 4

• analyse language or the effect on audience
• summarise means ‘retelling in your own words’
  
  • points need to be backed up with quotations, but you don’t need to analyse the words themselves
  • just choose quotations to back up your points
• need to summarise the difference between the sources

Question 5

What is the key to gaining full marks?

Answer 5

• perceptive answer
  
  • less obvious things, most people will not notice
  • look for implicit differences
    
    • the differences we can tease out with careful study
• demonstrate inferance
• do as much as you can do in 10 minutes

Question 6

What is inference?

Answer 6

writing something that you have worked out for yourself, not something that is stated in the textm e.g. comment on tone

use IED - inference, evidence, description