Year 12 · QCE / English as an Additional Language
Flashcards and recall.
Make a short deck from material you need to recall without notes.
Try this with English as an Additional Language
- Write one prompt per card. Use definitions, explanations or examples from your current topic.
- Answer aloud before turning the card. Split a card if it asks for several unrelated facts.
- Set aside missed cards and revisit them in a later session.
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Recall topics
- What does a 'How is the reader invited to view …' question ask you to do?
- What does an 'Analyse the significance of …' question require?
- How should you respond to a 'What comment does the novel/play make about …' question?
- What does a quoted proposition followed by 'Discuss.' require?
- What does 'To what extent do you agree?' signal?
- What does a 'What point of view or perspective about … is communicated' question focus on?
- How many questions are offered on each text in the real QCE English/EAL question book, and how many do you answer?
- What is a 'two-part' question and how do you handle it?
- Why do QCAA subject reports warn against prepared responses?
- What are the time conditions of the QCE English/EAL external assessment?
- Is the planning paper marked?
- Can you take your text or notes into the external assessment?
- What word length did 2021–2025 papers ask for, and what applies in 2026?
- What is a sensible time plan for 120 minutes of working time?
- What should a plan contain by the end of planning time?
- How do you choose between the two questions on your text?
- What should you check in the last minutes of working time?
- What is a 'credible' thesis in the QCAA marking guide?
- What makes a thesis 'discriminating'?
- Give a discriminating thesis on jealousy in <i>Othello</i>.
- Where should the thesis appear?
- How can a thesis respond to a 'Discuss' proposition?
- What weakens a thesis?
- How do you keep the thesis as the 'anchor' of the essay?
- What is the Development descriptor for 5 marks?
- What does 'selection and synthesis of evidence' reward?
- What is the difference between recount and interpretation?
- How do you embed a quotation?
- What should you do if you are unsure of the exact wording of a quotation?
- What is a 'textual reference' as opposed to a quotation?
- How many pieces of evidence suit one body paragraph?
- What does the TEEL paragraph pattern stand for?
- Why should evidence come from across the whole text?
- What does the Sequencing and organisation criterion reward at 3 marks?
- What does the Cohesion criterion reward at 3 marks?
- Name three types of cohesive device.
- What is a good order for body paragraphs?
- Which connective signals contrast between paragraphs?
- What should an introduction contain?
- What should a conclusion do?
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