Knowledge, understanding and interpretation are present throughout each component of the course. In each of the assessment tasks, your students will be asked to demonstrate understanding of the various works they will have studied, and in the Oral Presentation the context/s in which they were written. Some tasks (such as the Written Assignment and the Paper 2 examination) are more likely to invite students to respond to elements that pervade the whole work, whereas others (such as the Individual Oral and Paper 1) tend to focus attention on the details of particular extracts.

Analysis Evaluation are terms referred to throughout the syllabus, and it is a good idea to make reference to them in your teaching as often as you can.  In each of assessment component, students are expected to form judgments about the use and impact of elements of literary craft, and in so doing, demonstrate a capacity to think for themselves about the way they literary texts create meaning in different ways.

Communication is also tested in each of the components. Students need to talk and write in an appropriately formal register, as well as organise and present ideas in essays in a meaningful and purposeful way. Furthermore, in the Individual Oral Presentation, marks are awarded for their ability to demonstrate effective oral presentation techniques.