Students study:
Love Through the Ages: An Anthology of poetry produced by the examination board. We study the pre-1900 section.
One Shakespeare text from a prescribed list.
One post-1900 novel from a prescribed list.
The exam also contains a comparison of 2 unseen poems.
40% of total marks
Students study:
One novel from a prescribed list
One poetry text from a prescribed list
One drama text from a prescribed list
One of these three texts must be written 2000 or later.
The exam also contains an analysis of an unseen non-fiction text related to the chosen theme.
40% of total marks
Students choose a topic (free choice), approved by AQA
Students study 2 texts (free choice of quality fiction, but cannot be texts named elsewhere on the specification and one must be written pre-1900), approved by AQA.
Students write a 2500 word essay comparing their chosen texts in the light of their chosen topic.
Teacher assessed, externally moderated.
20% of total marks.