5 Exam Questions You Could Face in GCSE English

As one of the most important exams in education, GCSE English is offered across many exam boards. Despite the variations in format and topics, we have concluded 5 questions you could face during your exams! Let’s dive in:

1) How does the writer use language to…?

GCSE English tests not only students’ understanding of English but also their ability at inference and analysis. Thus, during the exams, regardless which of the two papers, you are most likely to come face to face with the question above. As the text is being produced, the writer carefully chooses words and phrases to achieve a certain goal. It is up to you to retrace the writer’s footsteps and find out how they have skilfully manipulated words to achieved their purpose.

2) How does the text interest you as a reader?

The ultimate function of a language is to communicate. However, in order to do this effectively, a writer must produce engaging texts which draws their readers in, keeps them attentive and ready to absorb and decipher the underlying messages. More often than not, the above question asks its readers to be pay special attention to the language and the structure of a text as it is through the careful considerations to sentence length, the arrangement of paragraphs and the shifting of perspectives, the text piques the readers’ interest and lures them to stay.

3)  What is the writer’s intention?

Some writers may choose to horrify and shock their readers, others may decide to spread joy and comfort. A text may take the readers on an unearthly journey to unimaginable worlds, or it may deliver informative and didactic lessons. For whatever reason the text is written, you as the reader must…