WW1 and its aftermath: creating your own questions
Below you will find instructions on how to use the accompanying resources to create your own exam practice questions. This example shows you how to use the WW1 and its aftermath: resource package to set questions for Paper 2A, Section B, for the WW1 and its aftermath component of A-level English Literature A.
Paper 2A, Section B
Comparative texts
If you have used the relevant questions from the specimen assessment materials or want to set a question on a different text combination or a different aspect of WW1 and its aftermath, you can use these documents in the following way.
Look at how the relevant questions from the specimen assessment materials are constructed, for example:
'Suffering in war comes in many different forms.'
Compare the significance of suffering in two other texts you have studied. Remember to include in your answer reference to how meanings are shaped in the texts you are comparing.
The question wording (Compare the significance of…you are comparing) can remain unchanged with the exception of the area to be explored (here 'suffering'). You will need, however, to construct a different 'view' depending upon the aspect of WW1 and its aftermath you want the students to explore.
Read the specimen question commentaries to help you construct a different 'view' to debate. Other sources can be used to construct a view:
- Look for aspects of WW1 and its aftermath which occur in the texts but don't forget that the absence of aspects in a text is equally valid for debate.
- Look at the list of areas to explore for WW1 and its aftermath in the specification and make up a critical view around one of these.
- Research critical views on this text around which to structure a debate.
- Research critical views on another text about 'WW1 and its aftermath' (non-set texts included) and adapt the quote in a more general sense so that students can consider how far this can be said to be true of the two texts they have studied.