Creative and Critical Writing overview quiz - WJEC A-Level English Language and Literature quiz

A timed written examination sat under formal conditions

The coursework component, worth about a fifth of the qualification

A multiple-choice test marked automatically by the board

An oral examination assessed by a visiting examiner

Two timed examinations on prescribed texts

A reading test and a listening test

A critical genre study and creative writing in that genre

A grammar paper and a spelling paper

An analytical essay on a chosen genre across set and wider reading

A summary of the plot of a single novel

A timed unseen comparison of three texts

A personal diary kept during the course

The periodic table

Gothic, dystopia, science fiction or life-writing

Quadratic equations

The water cycle

Three pieces, all in the literary mode

One piece only, in the non-literary mode

Four pieces, all in the spoken mode

Two pieces, one literary and one non-literary

It should deliberately deploy the genre conventions analysed in the study

It should ignore the study and be written on any topic

It should simply copy passages from the set texts

It should avoid all the conventions of the chosen genre

Because it lets you avoid analysing any text closely

Because it shows command of how the genre works across texts, not just one

Because it replaces the need for an argument

Because only wider reading is referenced, never the set text

It is optional decoration the markers ignore

It can replace having a clear analytical argument

It shows the breadth of research behind the study and is part of the assessment

It is only needed in the timed examinations

Arguing a focused thesis about the genre

Integrating linguistic and literary methods

Describing several texts in turn instead of arguing a thesis

Referencing sources accurately throughout

Your centre, within the board's requirements

The student, with no external requirements

A different exam board entirely

Nobody, as the NEA has no requirements

The plot of an unrelated set text

How the genre research shaped the choices and their intended effect

The student's revision timetable

A summary of every lesson in the course

Only AO4, connections across texts

Integrated method, analysis and context (AO1 to AO3)

Only the creative writing objective

No assessment objectives at all