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SL: Choosing the passage

The question of which extract to choose sometimes causes considerable unease on the part of students, and it is certainly an element of the paper that you will need to address. As pointed out elsewhere in this section, one golden rule is NOT to go into the exam with the choice pre-determined. Students are often left unstuck when, having decided to explore the poem or the prose extract beforehand, they find that the...

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