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Level 4 exemplars and comments
Paper 1
Sample 1: Section A, Question 1
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Sample 1: Section A, Question 1
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Sample 1: Section A, Question 1
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Sample 1: Section A, Question 1
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Sample 1: Section A, Question 1
Comments
In this response, the main issues presented in the extracts are clearly identified and ideas are
generally well-developed. There are, without doubt, occasional limitations in interpretation (e.g.
“many a civil monster” is taken to refer exclusively to Iago) and possibilities for more in-depth
examination of Othello’s use of language and the way it reflects his mood. That said, the candidate
presents a competent analysis of the episodes of epilepsy as well as the final paragraph of the novel
extract, and is particularly perceptive with Lord of the Flies.
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Sample 2: Section B, Question 4
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Sample 2: Section B, Question 4
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Sample 2: Section B, Question 4
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Sample 2: Section B, Question 4
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Sample 2: Section B, Question 4
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Sample 2: Section B, Question 4
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Sample 2: Section B, Question 4
Comments
This response is marked by an excellent illustration of the way literary techniques are used to
express anger in Plath’s poem. It also succeeds quite well in discovering essential connections
within and across texts by demonstrating how the closing lines in ‘The Fish’ and ‘At Grass’ contrast
with the rest of the poems, and how they denote a gradual change of emotion on the part of the
speaker in ‘Poppies in July’. Its argument would have been even more convincing, had clarifications
been made to ideas such as how the ends of the first two poems are similar in tone and why the
comparison of the skin of the fish to “ancient wallpaper” in Bishop’s poem evokes a sense of
disgust.
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Paper 2
Sample 1: Part I Section A, Question 1
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Sample 1: Part I Section A, Question 1
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Sample 1: Part I Section A, Question 1
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Sample 1: Part I Section A, Question 1
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Sample 1: Part I Section A, Question 1
Comments
This insightful essay systematically unravels and discusses the various fears that the boys and
Golding reveal in Lord of the Flies. There are a few occasional imperfections (e.g. it is unclear how
a “painted and garlanded” Jack imitates “the violent image of the beast”), but they do not
significantly take away from the depth of understanding it presents.
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Sample 2: Part I Section B, Question 3
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Sample 2: Part I Section B, Question 3
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Sample 2: Part I Section B, Question 3
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Sample 2: Part I Section B, Question 3
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Sample 2: Part I Section B, Question 3
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Sample 2: Part I Section B, Question 3
Comments
This response shows good insight into Othello’s character in its analysis of why he would have
destroyed himself and his marriage even without Iago. It engages closely with the topic and contains
many relevant ideas, although a few of them could have been more fully developed, notably his lack
of understanding of Desdemona as a result of his “long years in war”, and Iago’s role as
manipulator.
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