Romeo and Juliet

The Romeo and Juliet exam section appears on Literature Exam Paper 1. This is a closed book exam, which means that you will not have access to a copy of the novel in the exam.

This exam paper has two sections:

• Part (a): Romeo and Juliet
• Part (b): Jekyll and Hyde

The whole exam paper is 1 hour 45 minutes long. You should spend around 50 minutes on Romeo and Juliet and 50 minutes on Jekyll and Hyde. In addition to this, you should spend around 5 minutes proof reading your Much Ado About Nothing response as you are given 4 marks for SPaG for this question.

What you will be doing in the exam:

• The question you will be given will be focused on a key character, relationship or theme.
• You will be given a very short extract taken from any part of the novel. You will be asked to comment on this extract, demonstrating your close language analysis skills (A02), and then you be asked to comment the presentation of a character, idea or theme elsewhere in the novel.
• You should spend around 15-20 minutes commenting on the extract, and around 30-35 minutes discussing ideas across the novel as a whole.