Exam code:C700
Question 1: Model Answer
The following example of Component 1 Question 1 is taken from the November 2020 exam paper and applies the steps outlined in How to Answer Question 1 to achieve a full 5-mark answer.
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Question 1 and reading extract
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Model answer
Question 1 and reading extract
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Read lines 1–11. List five things you learn about the narrator in these lines. [5] |
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When I first moved to the country, my only companion was a horse. It was a big brown thing that lived in a field at the end of my garden. I was not used to horses but soon it was hanging its heavy head over my fence and I was feeding it chapatis. I come from London. So does my husband. But we moved near to Swindon because he was making his way in the world. I was proud of him then. The neighbours weren’t really unfriendly. We just didn’t have that much in common, me having no kids. I don’t think it was to do with prejudice — after all, I didn’t go around in a sari or anything. I was born and bred in England, same as them. I talked to the horse when I was hanging out my washing. It might have looked funny otherwise. I told it what I was cooking for dinner and what was going on in Eastenders. One day I said to it, quite distinctly, ‘I think I’m going mad.’ |
Model answer
The examiner will award one mark for each separate point and/or inference correctly identified, up to a maximum of five.
You should write your answers as follows:
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Other acceptable answers include:
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The narrator and her husband moved near to Swindon
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She did not have much in common with her neighbours
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She did not have children
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She was born and bred in England
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She talked to the horse
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She watched Eastenders
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She was worried about herself
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