AQA GCSE English Language: core reading skills overview quiz quiz

Because the set texts are released in advance, so their content can be learned by heart

Because the exam is open book, so you can look up the answers during the paper itself

Because every exam text is unseen, so only transferable skill can be revised

Because there is no reading section in either of the two papers students sit

Reading off the information that is stated directly and explicitly on the page

Counting the paragraphs to work out the structure

Comparing the ideas in two different texts

Working out implied meaning from clues in a text

It is anchored in specific evidence from the text

It is as long and detailed as you can possibly make it

It uses as many technical terms and labels as it can

It mentions the author's biography and personal life

To collect as many technical labels as possible to show off your knowledge

To name a technique precisely as the start of analysing its effect

To replace quotations so you do not have to copy out the text

To compare two texts and the views of their writers

They are the same thing and the two words can be used interchangeably in any answer

Tone is entirely about the sentence structure, while mood is purely a matter of correct spelling

Tone is the writer's attitude conveyed by language; mood is the feeling created in the reader

Tone is the reader's feeling created by the text; mood is the writer's own attitude

The number of named characters who appear in the text

The rhyme scheme and the metre used across the lines

The publication date and the wider historical context of the writing

The level of formality and the kind of language suited to a context

Whole-text level and sentence level

Individual word level and single letter level

Page numbering level and chapter heading level only

Only at the level of the title and any footnotes

It is always a grammatical error that the writer should have corrected

It stands out and lands with emphasis, drawing attention to that idea

It slows the pace down and makes the writing feel more relaxed and gentle

It always signals that the text has reached its ending

Counting the words in the text

Memorising quotations

Inference and deduction

Accurate spelling

It avoids using quotations, so you never have to copy out any part of the actual text

It completely replaces the need to provide any supporting evidence at all

It is only ever useful when you happen to be reading non-fiction texts

It lets you explain effect precisely, even without a named figure of speech

Feature-spotting: naming techniques without explaining their effect

Spending far too much of the whole answer on detailed analysis of effect alone

Using short, well-chosen quotations to support each point made

Discussing the tone and attitude of the writer in detail

By closely analysing the writer's word choice in just a few lines

As a whole-text question about order and shape across the extract

By comparing the two texts on the paper against each other

By summarising the plot and events of the extract in order