English Literature

Assessment

You will be assessed formally through examination and coursework. You will study set texts and other literary extracts to develop your skills of appreciation and analysis and to increase your knowledge of literature through reading widely. As the course progresses, increasing emphasis is placed upon developing you into an independent, informed reader, who is able to apply the skills you have learned in lessons to enable you to study some texts chosen yourself, in addition to those prescribed by the specification. Your skills and knowledge will be tested at A level in one 3-hour exam and one 2-hour 30-minute exam, both worth 40%. The coursework component makes up the final 20% of the course.