Self-Taught Language A: Assessments

There are four criteria for each of the assessment components.

Criterion A: Understand and Interpret

This assessment criterion will determine the extent to which you are aware of the ideas and attitudes portrayed in the literary works you have studied, how far you can explain their meaning and how satisfactorily you can use such knowledge and understanding to come to relevant conclusions. 

Criterion B: Analyse and Evaluate  

This assessment criterion will determine the extent to which you can break down the works you are exploring into their component parts to discover how meanings and implications are constructed. It also requires you to consider whether these component parts are fit for purpose and how they work to achieve a particular aim. In paper 2, this objective will also assess how far you have identified and evaluated the relationships and/or similarities and differences between different texts.  

Criterion C: Focus and Organization & Criterion D: Language

These assessment criteria address communication. They will assess how you are able to present your ideas in a coherent, effective manner (criterion C) and how precise, accurate, and stylistic your language choices are (criterion D).  

Assessment criteria are used to assess students for all assessment tasks.