Exam skills overview quiz - Eduqas GCSE English Literature quiz

Two hours, 40 percent

Two hours 30 minutes, 60 percent

One hour 45 minutes, 50 percent

Three hours, 100 percent

Two sections of unequal length, worth 30 marks each

Three equal sections, 40 marks each

One section, 80 marks

Four sections, 20 marks each

AO3 and AO4

AO2 and AO3

AO1 and AO2

AO1 and AO4

Every single section right across both of the two components

The Shakespeare essay only

The unseen poetry only

The anthology part (b) and the 19th century novel only

The Shakespeare essay and the post-1914 essay only

The anthology and unseen poetry sections of the paper

Every section

The unseen poetry only

A chapter-by-chapter retelling of everything that happens in the text in order

A thesis-led, idea-led essay organised by stages of an argument

A list of devices

A plot summary

Title, author, date

Beginning, middle, end

Point, method, effect

Quotation, quotation, quotation

A long passage learnt off by heart and then copied out in full

Any quotation, however vague

The first line of the text

A short, flexible, multi-use quotation containing a method

The exam requires producing evidence from memory, so you must practise writing quotations, not just recognising them

Recognition is always a great deal faster than retrieval, so it is the only thing truly worth practising before the exam

There is no difference

Recognition is only for poetry

Exactly equally between the questions, regardless of how many marks each one is worth

In proportion to the marks, keeping every answer complete

All on the first question

Whatever feels right on the day