Focus this part of your answer on the second half of the source, from line 18 to the end.
A student, having read this section of the text said: "The writer brings the very different
characters to life for the reader. It is as if you are inside the coach with them."
To what extent do you agree?
In your response, you could:
o write about your own impressions of the characters
evaluate how the writer has created these impressions
support your opinions with quotations from the text.​

DRAFT SPECIFICATION: Written exams at a glance

AQA OCR EDUQAS EDEXCEL

Assessment

Objective

Breakdown

AO1 = 10 %

AO2 = 17.5%

AO3 = 10%

AO4 = 12.5%

AO5 = 30%

AO6 = 20%

AO1 = 8.75 %

AO2 = 18.75%

AO3 = 7.5%

AO4 = 15%

AO5 = 30%

AO6 = 20%

AO1 = 10 %

AO2 = 20%

AO3 = 7.5%

AO4 = 12.5%

AO5 = 30%

AO6 = 20%

AO1 = 7.5 %

AO2 = 15%

AO3 = 8.75%

AO4 = 18.75%

AO5 = 30%

AO6 = 20%

Paper 1 Explorations in Creative Reading and Writing

Written exam: 1 hour 45 minutes

• 80 marks

• 50% of GCSE

Paper 1 Breakdown:

AO1 = 2.5 %

AO2 = 10%

AO3 = N/A

AO4 = 12.5%

AO5 = 15%

AO6 = 10 %

Communicating information and ideas

Written exam: 2 hours

• 80 marks

• 50% of GCSE

Paper 1 Breakdown:

AO1 = 6.25 %

AO2 = 7.5%

AO3 = 3.75%

AO4 = 7.5%

AO5 = 15%

AO6 = 10 %

20th Century Literature Reading and

Creative Prose Writing

Written exam: 1 hour 45 minutes

• 80 marks

• 40% of GCSE

Paper 1 Breakdown:

AO1 = 2.5 %

AO2 = 12.5%

AO3 = 0

AO4 = 5%

AO5 = 12%

AO6 = 8 %

Fiction and Imaginative Writing

Written exam: 1 hour 45 minutes

• 40 marks

• 50% of GCSE

Paper 1 Breakdown:

AO1 = 1.9 %

AO2 = 3.75%

AO3 = 0%

AO4 = 9.37%

AO5 = 15%

AO6 = 10 %

Section A  Unseen literature fiction text from

20th or 21st century. Its genre will

be prose fiction. Texts will include

extracts from novels and short

stories

Text: Daphne du Maurier’s Jamaica Inn

(1936)

 Unseen non-fiction texts from the

19th century and either the 20th or

21st century. One text will always

be drawn from the 19th century.

Text 1: Narrative of the Life of Frederick

Douglass, an American Slave. Author:

Frederick Douglass (1845).

Text 2: President Obama’s statement on the

death of Nelson Mandela (2013)

 This section will test through

structured questions the reading of

an unseen extract from one 20th

century literary prose text

Text: Ladies' Detective Agency (1998)

 Reading: questions on an unseen

19th-century fiction extract.

Text: Edgar Allen Poe’s The Tell-Tale heart

(1843)

Qu 1 Read again the first part of the source, lines 1 to 7.

List four things from this part of the text about the

weather in Cornwall.

(4 marks)

1 a) Look again at lines 1–9. Give two quotations

which show Douglass’ reactions to what Mr Covey

does. (2 marks)

b) Explain the way Mr Covey’s attitude towards

Douglass changes in lines 1–18 (2 marks)

Read lines 1-9.

A1. List five reasons why Obed Ramotswe went to

South Africa?

(5 marks)

From lines 1 to 5, identify the phrase which explains

why there is no blood on the floor. (1 mark)

Explanation:

ich statement best shows a problem in travels with charley?

one sharp difficulty presented itself. in the intervening twenty-five years my name had become reasonably well known.

this being so, my trip demanded that i leave my name and my identity at home.

i had to go alone and i had to be self-contained, a kind of casual turtle carrying his house on his back.

with all this in mind i wrote to the head office of a great corporation which manufactures trucks.