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- Subject: English
- AS: 90055
- Level: 1
- Credits: 2
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1.4 Read, study and show understanding of a number of short written texts
Key tips
- Use exemplars or examples of student work as a model for your own answers.
- Time how long it takes to write a good essay and practise writing under the time limit.
- Choose a question that suits your text and that you understand fully.
- Answer the question by applying your knowledge rather than memorising essays.
- Use keywords in the question to help focus your answer and to link back to the question at the end of each paragraph.
- Plan your answer and your evidence.
- Answer all parts of the question.
- Memorise quotations so they are accurate.
- Respond to the question by stating what the text made you think about.
- Demonstrate a wider knowledge of the text by showing how each feature of the text relates, connects, and influences the other.
- Make sure you use the correct answer booklet for your text.
- To help make your meaning clear it is important to check on your spelling, grammar, and punctuation.
