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Paper 1: Past Paper Text Types
Up to May 2024, there were 11 examination sessions, resulting in 33 Paper 1 prompts across Higher and Standard Levels. Each prompt offered a choice of three text types, creating a total of 99 text type...
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Paper 1 Video Walkthrough
This video unpacks a Paper 1 prompt and models the planning process. This is crucial in the first 15 minutes of the exam to ensure your response is relevant (to the prompt), fully developed, and structured...
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1.1 Lifestyles
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Young People Should Be Reading Newspapers
The generation we belong to plays a huge role in the formation of our identity. I (Joe) have a colleague and good friend who was born in the same year as me. While I see myself as an early millennial...
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Scottish independence?
This page is the on-going question of whether Scotland should become an independent nation, separated from its present situation as a part of the United Kingdom (UK). This connects to the theme of identity...
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The burqa issue
Our clothing is chosen not just as protection from the weather, but as a statement of who we are - which includes what we believe in, which social rules we chose to observe, and which social group we...
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Bagpipe humour
Humour forms the basis for human communication - it occurs everywhere in daily life. It is also, interestingly, very often one of the most complex forms of rhetoric, since it involves nuanced grammar...
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Imagining America
It can be argued that there is no such thing as 'identity' in the physical sense. We often make up an idea of identity, and then act as if this is objective. This view particularly applies to the ideas...
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MAGA attitudes
MAGA or Make America Great Again is a political movement that connects to people's identities. At its root is nationalism. This page contains a link to an article from The Guardian to help you develop...
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Key terms & indicators
Here are some suggestions about which are the key terms in the wording of the Criteria, how these may be interpreted, and what indicators may be useful in applying them. This page is primarily aimed at...