English Literature

Assessment

The A-level will be assessed in the following ways: • A written examination paper of 2 hours 30 minutes on either the comic or the tragic genre in which you will be assessed on the texts you have studied for this unit. • A 3 hour written paper in which you will be assessed on the texts you have studied for the crime writing or political writing unit. • Two coursework assignments in which you apply different literary theories to texts of your own choice.