English Literature

Assessment

 All students complete the EDUQAS English Literature specification. This is a linear course. Teaching is spread over two years at the end of which candidates will sit three separate examinations and complete one piece of coursework. Component 1 (30% of the qualification) is open book. Students are required to complete two essays, one on pre-1900 poetry and one on a comparison of two, paired, post-1900 poetry texts. Component 2 (30% of the qualification) takes the form of a closed book examination where students are, again, asked to produce two essays, one on a Shakespeare play and another on a pair of plays of which one will be pre-and the other post-1900. Component 3 (20% of the qualification) allows students to synthesise and reflect upon the knowledge they have gained from the course as a whole and to apply their skills of literary analysis to the examination of unseen poetry and unseen prose texts. They are required to write two essays in this section. The three examined components are each two hours in length. Component 4 (20% of the qualification) takes the form of coursework and requires students to complete one 2,500-3,500-word assignment based on the reading of two prose texts, one pre- and one post-2000. This component is internally assessed and externally moderated and aims to allow learners to show knowledge and understanding of ways in which texts relate to one another and literary traditions, movements and genres.