AQA GCSE English

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Assessment O

bjectives (AOs)

We have compared AO

s across GCSE English Language and GCSE English Literature to help you identify
similarities and differences

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English
Literature

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8702)

English
Language

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8700)

Read, understand and respond to texts
(Lt

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AO1)

Identify and interpret explicit and implicit
information and ideas (Lg

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AO1)

Explain, comment on... (Lg

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AO2)

Maintain a critical style and develop an
informed personal response, and use textual
references, including quotations, to support and
illustrate interpretations (Lt

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AO1)

Evaluate texts critically and support this with
appropriate textual references (Lg

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AO4)

Analyse the language, form and structure used
by a writer to create meanings and effects,
using relevant subject terminology
(Lt

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AO2)

...analyse how writers use language and
structure to achieve effects and influence
readers, using relevant subject terminology (Lg

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A02)

Show understanding of the relationships
between texts (Lt

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AO3)

Select and synthesise evidence from different
tex

ts (Lg

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AO1)

Compare writers’ ideas... across two or more
texts (Lg

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AO3)

Use
a range of vocabulary and sentence
structures for clarity, purpose and effect, with
accurate spelling and punctuation (Lt

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AO4)

Use a range of vocabulary and sentence
structures for

clarity, purpose and effect, with
accurate spelling and punctuation (Lg

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AO6)