English Literature

Assessment

We follow AQA Literature Specification ‘B’. The course is made up of 80% examined assessment and 20% non examined assessment. Students take two exams – Unit One is a closed book exam and lasts 2 hours and 30 minutes and Unit Two is open book and lasts 3 hours. Students have to answer passage based questions, essay questions and have to link their study of multiple texts together to compare their presentation of the given genre. The non-exam assessment element of the course comprises of two essays which relate to critical theories such as Feminist Theory, Marxist Theory and Post-colonialism.