1. English Language Paper 2 Section A
Writers’ viewpoints and perspectives
Total marks: 40
Suggested timing: 45 mins, plus 15 mins reading

2. Section A - Overview
Candidates will be asked to read two sources linked by a common theme (e.g. festivals, weather, public figures). One source will be a non-fiction literary text from the nineteenth century, the other will be either a twentieth or twenty-first century non-fiction literary text.
Assessment throughout Section A looks as follows:

3. Q1 – question format Marks: 4 Suggested timing: 4 minutes
Read again the first part of Source A, lines […] to […].
Choose four statements below which are TRUE.
Shade the boxes of the ones that you think are true
Choose a maximum of four statements A B C D E F G H
Anton is standing in water, covered in mud.
Anton is being carried away by the current.
Glastonbury is a scene of near-total devastation.
The moorings of the tents are floating down the hillsides.
The writer is shivering and caught in a thunderstorm.
Half-naked people are running after their tents.
At first, the writer was not pleased to be at Glastonbury.
The writer was not surprised to find it was wet and muddy.
Marks: 4
Suggested timing: 4 minutes

4. Q1 – Mark scheme Total marks: 4 AO1
• Identify and interpret explicit and implicit information and ideas.
• Select and synthesise evidence from different texts.
This assesses the first bullet point: identify and interpret explicit and implicit information and ideas.
Award one mark for each correctly shaded box.
If candidate has shaded more than four boxes, award marks for the first four boxes they have shaded.

5. Q2 – question format Marks: 8 Suggested timing: 8 minutes
You need to refer to Source A and Source B in this question.
[Statement about the connection between the two sources, e.g.
‘The things to do at Glastonbury Festival and Greenwich fair are different.’]
Use details from both sources to write a summary of the differences.
Marks: 8
Suggested timing: 8 minutes

6. Q2 – Mark scheme Total marks: 8 AO1
• Identify and interpret explicit and implicit information and ideas.
• Select and synthesise evidence from different texts.
This assesses both bullet points.

7. Q3 – question format Marks: 12 Suggested timing: 12 minutes
You now need to refer only to [either Source A or Source B], from line […] to […].
How does the author use language to… [e.g. make you, the reader, feel involved make you, the reader, dislike the character
describe the location on that day
describe the emotions of the main character]
Marks: 12
Suggested timing: 12 minutes

8. Q3 – Mark scheme Total marks: 12 AO2
Explain, comment on and analyse how writers use language and structure to achieve effects and influence readers, using relevant subjects
terminology to support their views.
This question assesses Language

9. Q4 – question format Marks: 16 Suggested timing: 16 minutes
For this question, you need to refer to the whole of Source A together with the whole of Source B.
Compare how the writers have conveyed their different views and experiences.
In your answer, you could:
compare their different views and experiences
compare the methods they use to convey these views and experiences
support your ideas with quotations from the text
Marks: 16
Suggested timing: 16 minutes

10. Q4 – Mark scheme Total marks: 16 AO3
Compare writers’ ideas and perspectives and how they are conveyed, across two or more texts.