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GCSE English Language - Assessment Objectives

Total questions: 15

Worksheet time: 1hrs 15mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

Which assessment objective assesses your ability to analyse the structure of a text?

a)

AO1

b)

AO2

c)

AO3

d)

AO4

2.

Which of the following words best describe Assessment Objective 4?

a)

Evaluation

b)

Analysis

c)

Understanding

d)

Spelling, punctuation and grammar

3.

What is the best description of analysis?

a)

Re-capping what you have read and saying what the best parts are.

b)

Working out how a reader will feel when they read something.

c)

Identifying errors and making suggestions for improvements.

d)

Coming to a conclusion about part of a text with supporting arguments to prove your ideas.

4.

Which of the following best describes evaluation?

a)

Identifying the writing techniques used in a text.

b)

Making a judgement about how effective certain aspects of a text are.

c)

Saying which parts you like best.

d)

Saying how something can be improved.

5.

Which Assessment Objectives assess writing skills?

a)

AO6

b)

AO4

c)

AO3

d)

AO2

e)

AO5

6.

Which questions Paper 1 and Paper 2 ask you to use AO2 (analysis) skills?

a)

Question 3 on both papers

b)

Question 4 on Paper 1 and Question 3 on Paper 2

c)

Question 2 on Paper 1 and Question 1 on Paper 2

d)

Question 4 on both papers

7.

What does Assessment Objective 6 assess your ability to do?

a)

Read and understand texts

b)

Generate ideas for stories

c)

Use high level vocabulary and correct spelling, punctuation and grammar.

d)

Spell words correctly

8.

Which of the Assessment Objectives asks you to demonstrate that you understand the texts you read?

a)

AO4

b)

AO1

c)

AO2

d)

AO5

9.

Which Assessment Objective asks you to compare two texts?

a)

AO1

b)

AO4

c)

AO2

d)

AO3

10.

Which of the following statements are correct about AO3? (Choose 3)

a)

It is the hardest AO

b)

It is the only AO that is assessed on Paper 2 only

c)

It assesses your ability to compare two texts

d)

You will always be asked to compare the viewpoints of writers.

e)

It is the only AO which sometimes does not appear on the exam at all.

11.

In English Language, the word 'synthesis' means...

a)

Using the best possible vocabulary.

b)

Writing about your ideas and using evidence from the text to support them.

c)

A type of story where the narrator is a robot.

d)

Bringing together separate ideas from multiple texts and saying how they are similar.

12.

Which Assessment Object assesses your ability to synthesis information from more than one text?

a)

AO3

b)

AO6

c)

AO1

d)

AO4

13.

Which of the following are assessed in AO5? (Select all that apply)

a)

Spelling

b)

The way you write for a specific audience

c)

The structure of your writing

d)

The coherence of your writing

e)

Your use of effective writing techniques

14.

AO4 assesses your ability to: (select two answers)

a)

Analyse the writer's point of view.

b)

Compare a text to another text.

c)

Select appropriate examples from the texts to support your ideas.

d)

Evaluate texts critically.

15.

What does the term 'implicit meaning' mean?

a)

Something to do with elves.

b)

Meaning which is suggested, but not directly stated.

c)

The most obvious, directly stated, meaning.

d)

A feeling which you are not aware of.