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Practice paper focus areas

• Exam 1 — All the Light We Cannot See: How is the reader invited to view the choices ordinary people make in war?; All the Light We Cannot See: Analyse the significance of the radio broadcasts.; Twelfth Night: How is the audience invited to view love and desire?
• Exam 2 — Never Let Me Go: How is the reader invited to view Hailsham's education of its students?; Never Let Me Go: Analyse the significance of Ruth's character.; The Yield: How is the reader invited to view the connection between land and identity?
• Exam 3 — Othello: How is the audience invited to view trust?; Othello: Analyse the significance of Iago's soliloquies.; The Namesake: How is the reader invited to view Ashima's experience of migration?
• Exam 4 — Pride and Prejudice: How is the reader invited to view first impressions?; Pride and Prejudice: Analyse the significance of Charlotte Lucas's marriage.; The Dry: How is the reader invited to view the effect of drought on the community?
• Exam 5 — All the Light We Cannot See: What comment does the novel make about knowledge and curiosity?; All the Light We Cannot See: Analyse the significance of Jutta's character.; The Yield: What comment does the novel make about how history is recorded?
• Exam 6 — Twelfth Night: What comment does the play make about disguise and identity?; Twelfth Night: Analyse the significance of Feste.; The Namesake: What comment does the novel make about belonging between two cultures?
• Exam 7 — Never Let Me Go: What comment does the novel make about memory as comfort?; Never Let Me Go: Analyse the significance of Madame's Gallery.; The Dry: What comment does the novel make about guilt and the past?
• Exam 8 — Othello: What comment does the play make about the treatment of outsiders?; Othello: Analyse the significance of Cassio's character.; Pride and Prejudice: What comment does the novel make about the economic pressures on women?
• Exam 9 — All the Light We Cannot See: Proposition: the novel suggests goodness survives even in the darkest times — Discuss.; All the Light We Cannot See: Analyse the significance of the Sea of Flames diamond.; The Namesake: Proposition: Gogol's relationships reflect his struggle with identity — Discuss.
• Exam 10 — The Yield: Proposition: August's return home is a journey of repair rather than escape — Discuss.; The Yield: Analyse the significance of Albert Gondiwindi's character.; The Dry: Proposition: Falk can solve the present crime only by confronting his own past — Discuss.
• Exam 11 — Twelfth Night: Proposition: the comedy of Twelfth Night has a cruel edge — Discuss.; Twelfth Night: Analyse the significance of Viola's character.; Pride and Prejudice: Proposition: Elizabeth must change as much as Darcy does — Discuss.
• Exam 12 — Never Let Me Go: Proposition: the students' acceptance of their fate is the novel's most disturbing feature — Discuss.; Never Let Me Go: Analyse the significance of Miss Lucy.; Othello: To what extent is Othello destroyed by his own insecurity rather than by Iago?
• Exam 13 — All the Light We Cannot See: How is the reader invited to view guardians and protectors?; All the Light We Cannot See: Analyse the significance of Frank Volkheimer's character.; The Dry: How is the reader invited to view rumour and gossip?
• Exam 14 — The Namesake: How is the reader invited to view family obligation and tradition?; The Namesake: Analyse the significance of Moushumi.; Pride and Prejudice: How is the reader invited to view parents and parenting?
• Exam 15 — The Yield: How is the reader invited to view resistance and protest?; The Yield: Analyse the significance of family memory and storytelling.; Othello: How is the audience invited to view the position of women in the play's society?
• Exam 16 — Twelfth Night: How is the audience invited to view social status and ambition?; Twelfth Night: Analyse the significance of the letter trick.; Never Let Me Go: How is the reader invited to view hope (the deferral rumour)?
• Exam 17 — All the Light We Cannot See: What point of view about memory and loss is communicated in the closing sections?; All the Light We Cannot See: To what extent is Werner presented as a victim rather than a perpetrator?; Pride and Prejudice: What point of view about pride is communicated?
• Exam 18 — The Dry: What point of view about masculinity is communicated?; The Dry: Analyse the significance of the novel's final revelation.; Othello: What point of view about the power of persuasive language is communicated?
• Exam 19 — The Namesake: What point of view about grief and change is communicated?; The Namesake: Analyse the significance of the novel's ending.; Never Let Me Go: What point of view about society's responsibility to the vulnerable is communicated?
• Exam 20 — The Yield: What point of view about colonial institutions is communicated?; The Yield: Analyse the significance of the novel's ending.; Twelfth Night: What point of view about grief and mourning is communicated?