Candidate 7 - Scottish Text: Basking Shark, Norman MacCaig, Critical Essay: Othello, William Shakespeare In the exam, in May, you'll sit two papers. One paper, Reading for Understanding, Analysis and Evaluation, will be a Close Reading assessment - you'll answer detailed questions about the language and ideas of one non-fiction text and then answer a question where you examine the relationship between the ideas and/or language of the text and another non-fiction text. You will have 90 minutes for the Close Reading assessment and it's worth 30 marks. Sparknotes: Study notes for the entire text - Plot summaries, character analysis, themes, symbols... Candidate 5 - Scottish Text: The Cone-Gatherers, Robin Jenkins, Critical Essay: The Second Coming, W.B.Yeats Past papers are a useful revision tool. They enable you to gauge your subject knowledge and uncover your strengths and weaknesses, enabling you to understand what areas you need to devote more time to and conversely, what areas you can devote less time to.

For the folio of writing, you'll send two pieces of writing to be marked by an external examiner. One essay must be creative (imaginative or personal/reflective) and the other must be discursive (argumentative or persuasive). Each piece of writing can gain a maximum of 15 marks. The WJEC Publication Policy explains when WJEC examination documents such as past papers and mark schemes are made available to registered examination centres and to members of the public. Candidate 6 - Scottish Text: Valentine, Carol Ann Duffy, Critical Essay: Lord of the Flies, William Golding IMPORTANT - If you choose to answer on POETRY for Section One of the Critical Reading Exam (Scottish Text) then you can't write about poetry for Section Two (Critical Essay).