2019 Marking instructions (External link to SQA website) Candidate 1 - Scottish text: The Slab Boys. Critical Essay: The Great Gatsby. Candidate 1 Evidence. Candidate 2 - Scottish text: The Telegram. Critical essay: Romeo and Juliet. Candidate 2 Evidence. Candidate 3 - Scottish text: The Cone-Gatherers. Critical essay: O Captain!
Higher English
Critical Reading- Essays 2023-2024 (16 minutes)(26.26 MB) Critical Reading- Scottish Text 2023-2024 (16 minutes)(27.51 MB) Webinar (recording) Changes to course assessment academic session 2018-19 onwards. Download webinar (72.21 MB) Performance - Spoken Language Understanding Standards materials. Higher English performance - Spoken Language ...
PDF National Qualifications RESOURCE
General marking principles for Higher English: Critical Reading. Always apply these general principles. Use them in conjunction with the detailed marking instructions, which identify the key features required in candidates' responses. Always use positive marking. This means candidates accumulate marks for the demonstration of relevant skills ...
PDF 2022 Higher English Critical Reading Marking Instructions
For example if 9-6 best describes the candidate's work, reconsider the candidate's abilities in the three main areas: knowledge and understanding; analysis; evaluation. If the candidate just misses a 9, award an 8. If the candidate is slightly above a 6, award a 7. page 3. Marking instructions for each question.
Section Two
Exam skills Section Two - Critical Essay. Exam skills. The Higher English course is assessed on folio writing, a spoken language assessment and a final exam in addition to revision and coursework ...
Structure of a critical essay
The introduction should not be too long and detailed and it should focus on the question right from the start. You should: identify the author and text. use words from the task. indicate the ...
Exam skills How to pass Higher English
There are four parts to Higher English assessment: Reading for Understanding, Analysis and Evaluation. 30 marks/30%. Exam time: 1 hour and 30 minutes. Critical Reading. 40 marks/40%. Exam time: 1 ...
PDF Higher English
Critical Essay Exam Format. Paper. Time. Marks. Part of the critical reading paper (paper 2). Time allocation for this paper is 1 hour 30 minutes, the same as National 5. Timing can be more difficult as the essay is expected to be more insightful and sophisticated than in National 5, and the SST component takes longer to complete at higher ...
PDF HOW TO PASS HIGHER ENGLISH: 2018-19
Writing Folio. You can help your child with their writing folio by doing the following: Read over their drafts and check for accuracy in terms of punctuation and paragraphing. Help them with research and ideas for discursive essays by discussing topical subjects that are on TV and in the quality press.
PDF 2021 Higher English Critical Reading Text Question Paper
SECTION 2 — Critical essay — 20 marks. Attempt ONE question from the following genres — Drama, Prose Fiction, Prose Non-fiction, Poetry, Film and Television Drama, or Language. Your answer must be on a different genre from that chosen in Section 1. You should spend approximately 45 minutes on each section.
Practice Critical Essay Questions
Here are some critical essay questions organised by genre. Take time to plan out the structure of your essay, consider key quotations/features of your text. To challenge yourself, try a question under timed conditions (without notes!!) Choose a novel of short story in which setting in time and/or place is an important feature.
SQA
Critical Essay - Section 2. Question 5 Poetry (Shooting Stars by Carol Ann Duffy) Candidate 1 Evidence. Question 7 Film and Television Drama (The Truman Show) Candidate 2 Evidence. Question 4 Prose (The Hate U Give) Candidate 3 Evidence. Candidates 1 to 3 Commentaries.
Higher English
Reading for understanding involves identifying the main points, purpose and intended readership of the text. Inference is when the reader works things out using clues in the text. Critical essay
PDF Higher English Portfolio-writing and Performance-spoken language
Higher English. These are two of four course assessment components. The other components are a Reading for Understanding, Analysis and Evaluation question paper and a Critical Reading question paper. The instructions for candidates can be printed and edited, as appropriate, to suit the task set by centres.
Language
Tone. Tone is the creation of mood in a text, such as sadness, gloom, celebration, joy, anxiety, dissatisfaction, regret or anger. Different elements of writing can help to create these moods. For ...
Academic literacy is more than language, it's about critical thinking
Making the adjustment from school to university is no easy task. For instance, there's a big difference between writing a high school essay and crafting an academic paper which meets university ...
Exam skills Reading for Understanding, Analysis and Evaluation
Higher; Exam skills Reading for Understanding, Analysis and Evaluation. The Higher English course is assessed on folio writing, a spoken language assessment and a final exam in addition to ...
SQA
Specimen question papers are available for National 5, Higher and Advanced Higher qualifications. These show what a question paper looks like - how it is structured and the types of questions it contains. They also include marking instructions. Find them under 'Past Papers and Marking Instructions' on our NQ subject pages.
Section One
Exam skills Section One - Scottish Set Text. Exam skills. The Higher English course is assessed on folio writing, a spoken language assessment and a final exam in addition to revision and ...
IMAGES
VIDEO
COMMENTS
2019 Marking instructions (External link to SQA website) Candidate 1 - Scottish text: The Slab Boys. Critical Essay: The Great Gatsby. Candidate 1 Evidence. Candidate 2 - Scottish text: The Telegram. Critical essay: Romeo and Juliet. Candidate 2 Evidence. Candidate 3 - Scottish text: The Cone-Gatherers. Critical essay: O Captain!
Critical Reading- Essays 2023-2024 (16 minutes)(26.26 MB) Critical Reading- Scottish Text 2023-2024 (16 minutes)(27.51 MB) Webinar (recording) Changes to course assessment academic session 2018-19 onwards. Download webinar (72.21 MB) Performance - Spoken Language Understanding Standards materials. Higher English performance - Spoken Language ...
General marking principles for Higher English: Critical Reading. Always apply these general principles. Use them in conjunction with the detailed marking instructions, which identify the key features required in candidates' responses. Always use positive marking. This means candidates accumulate marks for the demonstration of relevant skills ...
For example if 9-6 best describes the candidate's work, reconsider the candidate's abilities in the three main areas: knowledge and understanding; analysis; evaluation. If the candidate just misses a 9, award an 8. If the candidate is slightly above a 6, award a 7. page 3. Marking instructions for each question.
Exam skills Section Two - Critical Essay. Exam skills. The Higher English course is assessed on folio writing, a spoken language assessment and a final exam in addition to revision and coursework ...
The introduction should not be too long and detailed and it should focus on the question right from the start. You should: identify the author and text. use words from the task. indicate the ...
There are four parts to Higher English assessment: Reading for Understanding, Analysis and Evaluation. 30 marks/30%. Exam time: 1 hour and 30 minutes. Critical Reading. 40 marks/40%. Exam time: 1 ...
Critical Essay Exam Format. Paper. Time. Marks. Part of the critical reading paper (paper 2). Time allocation for this paper is 1 hour 30 minutes, the same as National 5. Timing can be more difficult as the essay is expected to be more insightful and sophisticated than in National 5, and the SST component takes longer to complete at higher ...
Writing Folio. You can help your child with their writing folio by doing the following: Read over their drafts and check for accuracy in terms of punctuation and paragraphing. Help them with research and ideas for discursive essays by discussing topical subjects that are on TV and in the quality press.
SECTION 2 — Critical essay — 20 marks. Attempt ONE question from the following genres — Drama, Prose Fiction, Prose Non-fiction, Poetry, Film and Television Drama, or Language. Your answer must be on a different genre from that chosen in Section 1. You should spend approximately 45 minutes on each section.
Here are some critical essay questions organised by genre. Take time to plan out the structure of your essay, consider key quotations/features of your text. To challenge yourself, try a question under timed conditions (without notes!!) Choose a novel of short story in which setting in time and/or place is an important feature.
Critical Essay - Section 2. Question 5 Poetry (Shooting Stars by Carol Ann Duffy) Candidate 1 Evidence. Question 7 Film and Television Drama (The Truman Show) Candidate 2 Evidence. Question 4 Prose (The Hate U Give) Candidate 3 Evidence. Candidates 1 to 3 Commentaries.
Reading for understanding involves identifying the main points, purpose and intended readership of the text. Inference is when the reader works things out using clues in the text. Critical essay
Higher English. These are two of four course assessment components. The other components are a Reading for Understanding, Analysis and Evaluation question paper and a Critical Reading question paper. The instructions for candidates can be printed and edited, as appropriate, to suit the task set by centres.
Tone. Tone is the creation of mood in a text, such as sadness, gloom, celebration, joy, anxiety, dissatisfaction, regret or anger. Different elements of writing can help to create these moods. For ...
Making the adjustment from school to university is no easy task. For instance, there's a big difference between writing a high school essay and crafting an academic paper which meets university ...
Higher; Exam skills Reading for Understanding, Analysis and Evaluation. The Higher English course is assessed on folio writing, a spoken language assessment and a final exam in addition to ...
Specimen question papers are available for National 5, Higher and Advanced Higher qualifications. These show what a question paper looks like - how it is structured and the types of questions it contains. They also include marking instructions. Find them under 'Past Papers and Marking Instructions' on our NQ subject pages.
Exam skills Section One - Scottish Set Text. Exam skills. The Higher English course is assessed on folio writing, a spoken language assessment and a final exam in addition to revision and ...