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AQA English Language Paper 2 Question 1 (updated and animated) - YouTube
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in last year's November recent paper
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fewer than half of the students entered
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achieved four out of four in AQA English
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language paper to question one it's
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supposed to be a simple question but
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there are some hidden depth to it and in
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this video I'll teach you how to get
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four out of four in this potentially
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difficult question in this video we're
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looking at AQA english-language paper 2
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question 1 which is a 4 mark question
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assessing the first bullet point of a o1
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to identify and interpret explicit and
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implicit information and ideas
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question 1 presents you with 8
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statements asking you to identify four
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which are true let's look at a typical
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question taken from mr. Bruce guide to
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GCSE English language available in
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paperback on Amazon or ebook at mr.
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broth comm read source a from lines 1 to
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25 choose four statements which are true
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shade the circles in the boxes of the
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statements which are true so the first
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simple tip here is to draw a box around
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the part of the text you're being asked
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to take your answers from in this case
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lines 1 to 25 just make sure you do that
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carefully and don't strike through any
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actual lines of text in the source
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because you're gonna need to look back
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at this part of the text when you're
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working on other questions and you don't
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want to find that you can't read some of
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the words you might think this question
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is similar to paper 1 question 1 but it
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is actually a bit harder as it may
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require you to infer and read between
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the lines let me show you what I mean by
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that some of the true statements will be
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easy to find like statement B Andrew
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broth makes online video tutorials
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that's easily identified as true from a
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reading of the line in the source he
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creates video tutorials for English
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language and literature and uploads them
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on to YouTube but the correct statements
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are not always as easy as that to find
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look at statement H Liam Murphy makes a
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joke to excuse his poor exam result now
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there is nowhere in the text that
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explicitly says Liam Murphy makes a joke
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to excuse his poor exam results what you
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have to do is read the line I won't tell
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you my exam results but if I'd gone to
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an all-boys school I might have been a
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brain surgeon and actually infer from
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that that a this is it
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and be the joke is excusing his poor
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exam results now that is true but the
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point I'm making is that you have to
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read between the lines to work it out
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and there are other challenges too in
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the November 2018 resit paper many
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students chose an incorrect statement
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which was worded very similarly to a
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statement from the text so the original
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text said something like speak to most
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students who revised online and you'll
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discover that YouTube is their number
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one website of choice for learning and
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one of the statements in the question
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was most students revise online and you
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can see that the wording of the
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statement is very similar to what it
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says in the text but that's not actually
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what the source is saying the statement
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is incorrect the source doesn't say that
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most students revise online it makes a
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statement about what most students who
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revise online actually do when they are
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there and what happened in the November
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2018 exam and what you need to make sure
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you avoid yourself is many students
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selected that statement is correct and
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then just look for three more correct
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statements but the truth was that the
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statement was not correct and they were
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there for four more correct statements
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to find now the exam board isn't trying
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to catch you out a careful and close
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reading of the text is what assessment
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objective one is all about but this is a
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good reminder to read the text very
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carefully and you have time to do so
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the entire exam paper just like with
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paper one is worth a total of 80 marks
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and the exam is a 1-hour 45 minute exam
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now if you allow 15 minutes for reading
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the sources you're left with 90 minutes
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to achieve a possible maximum of 80
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marks which means you should spend
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around one minute per mark available on
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each question so with question 1 you
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should spend around 5 minutes on it and
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that's more than enough time to read the
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eight statements reread the section of
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the text in question and carefully
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choose your answers once you've found a
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correct statement you need to shade the
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circle in the box next to it and here's
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a very useful final tip the statements
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are always presented in the same
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chronological order as the text so it
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should be easy to check in a methodical
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and consistent way that you've
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identified the correct answers I hope
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you found this video useful if you'd
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like to see
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a longer video on this question then you
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can see one just here click on the
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