AQA GCSE English Language Paper 2, Question 4 Walkthrough

A walkthrough of GCSE English language paper 2 question 4. Guide to producing a grade 4 answer.

[stonewarebirds]

It is extraordinary that an exam question takes about 13 minutes to plan and yet in reality they give you 16 minutes to complete the question. I know some teachers say 10 mins for q2 and 15 mins for q3 and 20 mins for q4 but add 5 mins for q1 and you arevleft with 10 minutes to read TWO often lengthy texts and reread and check your answers. I am a parent with a degree in English and have put myself through the joy of an hour answering part A of paper 2 and i felt like a barely processed the text and was under the most enormous time pressure. What are exam boards testing here, comprehension and deep understanding or cognitive speed? Try having a bright child (top 2% according to dyslexia report) but who has dyslexia (no hope of spelling correctly and nothing she can do about that its not for want of trying) adhd and is autistic (so inference is a really tough one that takes work) and the new specifications are not actually going to uncover her true cognitive abilities, she may not even scrape a pass. Give me back the O Level, very simple in comparison, even i passed it having had no teaching for it because we all studied CSE in my school and O level was an after thought. I wish the Education System would stop putting this kind of pressure on young people. It is needless pandering to the right wing agenda of bleating on about the good ole days - let them sit a modern paper and see just how they do! Thanks for the videos though and i am off my soap box now. 😀

[bentizzard]

Could you lay it out this way and get the marks