Question 1

Shakespeare essays spend most of their time on the printed extract and treat the rest of the play as an afterthought, or the reverse, breaking the rubric's equal split between the two.

Accepted Answer

Plan your 90 minutes so roughly half goes to close analysis of the extract and half to connecting it with the wider play. Check your own timing against this split before you start writing.

Question 2

Shakespeare answers retell the plot of the extract instead of discussing dramatic methods such as verse form, rhetoric, dramatic irony and staging, which caps the response at 30 out of 50.

Accepted Answer

For every point you make, name the specific dramatic technique behind it and explain what it does, rather than describing what a character says or does.

Question 3

Context in the Shakespeare answer is written as generic Elizabethan or Jacobean background facts, rather than genre knowledge, tragedy, comedy, problem play, romance, applied to the specific scene.

Accepted Answer

Name the play's genre early and use it to explain how a specific scene works within or against that genre's conventions, instead of listing historical facts that never touch the text.

Question 4

Essays across both papers agree wholly and immediately with the question's stimulus statement, especially one containing an absolute word such as 'entirely', 'impossible' or 'throughout'.

Accepted Answer

Address the absolute word directly. Show where the statement holds and where it strains, and reach your own qualified judgement rather than a flat agreement.

Question 5

Closed-book conditions are treated as licence to quote loosely or paraphrase vaguely, when examiners expect short, precise, syntactically integrated references to the text.

Accepted Answer

Practise recalling short, exact phrases rather than whole passages, and build them into your own sentences rather than dropping them in unexplained.

Question 6

In A2 2 Section A, the self-selected companion poem or extract receives only a few sentences of analysis compared to the main text, breaking the balance AO4 rewards.

Accepted Answer

Give the companion poem or extract genuinely equal analytical space, planning both together before you write rather than adding the second one on at the end.

Question 7

Unseen poetry answers in Section B bring in invented or guessed historical or biographical context, even though Section B covers AO1, AO2 and AO5, not AO3.

Accepted Answer

Leave context out of Section B entirely. Spend that time instead on close analysis of form, structure, language and tone, and on exploring more than one possible reading of the poem.

Question 8

Essays fail to address every term in the question's stimulus statement, picking up on one phrase while ignoring an equally important absolute term elsewhere in the same sentence.

Accepted Answer

Underline every significant term in the statement before you plan, and make sure your essay returns to each one, not just the term that is easiest to write about.

ฉบับ	เวลา	คะแนน	จำนวนข้อ	น้ำหนักคะแนน	ประเภทคำถาม
A2 1: Shakespearean Genres	1ชม. 30นาที	50	1	33%	Extract and Whole-Play Essay (AO1 to AO5, equal marks for extract and wider play)
A2 2: Poetry Pre 1900 and Unseen	2ชม.	100	2	67%	Poetry Pre 1900 Essay, choice of (a) or (b) (AO1, AO2, AO3, AO4), Unseen Poetry Essay, compulsory (AO1, AO2, AO5)

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