Language reading skills overview quiz - WJEC GCSE English Language quiz

Set texts studied in advance

Unseen texts the student has not read before

Poems from a memorised anthology

The student's own writing

A detailed analysis of language

Exactly the number of explicit points asked for, from the stated lines

An evaluation of the writer's purpose

A comparison of two texts

Quotation, quotation, quotation

Inference, evidence, and explanation of what the evidence implies

Fact, fact, fact

Opinion, summary, conclusion

Naming as many devices as possible

Quotation, method (named with terminology), and effect on the reader

A long quotation with no comment

A summary of the paragraph

There is no difference

Structure analyses the order and organisation of the whole text; language analyses individual word choices

Structure is about spelling

Language is about paragraphs only

The font size

The headings, units and any totals

The colour of the chart

The page number

They are the same task

Synthesis draws information together across texts; comparison weighs the writers' attitudes against each other

Synthesis is about spelling; comparison is about grammar

Comparison uses one text; synthesis uses three

It is shorter

It handles both texts together with connectives, doing the comparison itself

It avoids using evidence

It only discusses one text

Summarise the text

Judge how effectively the text achieves its purpose, with evidence, often responding to a statement

List five facts

Correct the spelling

By saying 'it is biased' with no evidence

By pointing to selected supporting examples, loaded language and ignored counter-arguments

By counting the paragraphs

By praising the writer

Easy, medium, hard

Word level, sentence level, and text level

Spelling, spelling, spelling

Opening, middle, end

Reading the whole text first

Fixing only obvious spelling and missing sentence-boundary and clarity errors

Correcting genuine errors

Working systematically

It is against the rules

Retrieval questions carry no analysis marks, so explanation wastes time needed elsewhere

You must write at least a page

Development is always rewarded

So it sounds longer

An inference the text cannot support is just a guess and loses credit

Because guessing is encouraged

To fill the page