Love through the ages: 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 Love through the ages resource package to set questions for Paper 2, Section B, for AS English Literature A.

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 Love through the ages, you can use these documents in the following way:

1. Look at how the relevant questions from the specimen assessment materials are constructed, for example:

'Women characters are presented primarily as those who suffer and endure.'

By comparing two prose texts, explore the extent to which you agree with this statement.

The question wording (By comparing two prose texts, explore the extent to which you agree with this statement.) can remain unchanged. You will, however, need to provide a different statement for debate.

2. Read the examiner commentary to help you identify a different area of Love through the ages to compare. Look for aspects of Love through the ages which occur in both texts studied but don't forget that the absence of aspects in a text is equally valid for comparison; the list of aspects in the specification offer a good starting point.  Other sources can be used to provide a statement:

• Look at the list of aspects of Love through the ages in the specification and make up a critical view around one of these
• Research critical views about love, on these or other texts, 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 texts they have studied.

This resource is part of the Love through the Ages resource package.