1. GCSE English Language
Mocks Marking Training
16BAE07

2. Aims of the training
It has been designed to support you in marking the Edexcel GCSE (9-1) English Language specimen paper, allowing you to use the specimen paper as a mock paper for your students.
During the training we will:
- cover the assessment requirements of the new specification
- look at the new types of questions
- review examples of real student responses to questions
- understand how to use the mark schemes to mark your students’ mocks. 2

3. Paper 1: Fiction and Imaginative Writing
1 hour 45 minutes
40% of GCSE (total 64 marks)
19th-century Unseen Fiction text
AO1 Short answers (questions 1 and 2) 3 marks
AO2 Analysis of language and structure (question 3) 6 marks
AO4 Evaluation (question 4) 15 marks
AO5 and AO6 Writing (choice of question 5 or 6) 40 marks
Reading – encourage students to use introduction and glossary.

4. Questions 1 and 2
AO1: Identify and interpret explicit and implicit information and ideas

5. Question 2 – scripts 2A, 2B and 2C

6. Question 3 AO2: Explain, comment on and analyse how writers use language and structure to achieve effects and influence readers, using relevant subject terminology to support their views

7. Question 3 – scripts 3A and 3C

8. Question 4 – scripts 4A and 4B
AO4: Evaluate texts critically and support this with appropriate textual references

9. Imaginative Writing – Question 5 or 6 Script 5B

10. Imaginative Writing – Assessment Objectives

11. Paper 2: Non-fiction and Transactional Writing
2 hours
60% of GCSE (total 96 marks)
20th and 21st century unseen non-fiction texts
AO1 Identify information and ideas (questions 1 and 4) 3 marks
AO1 Synthesis (question 7a) 6 marks
AO2 Analysis of language and structure (qu. 2, 3 and 5) 18 marks
AO3 Compare writers’ ideas and perspectives, as well as how these are conveyed, across two or more texts (question 7b) 14 marks
AO4 Evaluation (question 6) 15 marks
AO5 and AO6 Writing (choice of question 8 or 9) 40 marks

12. Paper 2: Non-fiction and Transactional Writing
Differences to Paper 1:
AO2 weighting in question 3 (5 levels/15 marks)
Two Reading texts
More time to allow for reading two texts
Question 7 - AO1 synthesis in 7a) / AO3 comparison in 7b)

13. Short answer questions

14. Question 1 - scripts 1A-1D
Question 2
Scripts 2A-2C

15. Question 3 – script 3A

16. Text 2 Short answer questions Scripts 4A-4C, 5A and 5B

17. Question 6 – script 6A

18. Question 7a) – script 7A

19. Question 7b) – script 7B AO3: Compare writers’ ideas and perspectives, as well as how these are conveyed, across two or more texts

20. Question 8 or 9 – scripts 8A and 9A

21. Any questions?

22. Contact information
English Subject Advisor, Clare Haviland:
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