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Paper 1
Paper 1
The paper 1 exam is an assessment which requires you to work in timed conditions on unseen, non-literary texts. At SL you write 1 essay in 1 hr 15 mins; at HL, you write 2 essays in 2 hrs 15 mins. The exam accounts for 35% of your final grade.
The assessment focusses on your ability to analyse texts and consider how the creator has generated meaning using stylistic features.
If you would like to see a more challenging HL text which takes you through the planning process, click here!
A great way to show insight and perceptive understanding is to offer an oppositional reading which challenges text meanings, and questions norms, revealing hidden perspectives
The Paper 1 exam asks you to analyse and show understanding of the meaning of an unseen text. But how do you do this? And what are the examiners looking for?
So you have done a practice Paper 1; now what?
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