Gatsby Essay Practice

Questions written in the style each board actually sets, with the trap in each one named and a route into an answer. Filter by board, by question type or by theme.

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Exam Boards

What each assessment actually measures, how long you get, and the single thing that most often separates the top band from the middle in that system.

Specifications change. Set texts move between papers, assessment weightings are revised, and a novel on the list one year may not be the next. Everything here describes the shape and the criteria of each assessment, which is stable, rather than which paper this novel currently sits on, which is not. Check the current specification and your teacher before planning a revision timetable around any of it.

Plan a Response

Pick a question and build the plan in the order a good essay is actually assembled: the arguable claim first, the strongest objection second, then the paragraphs that get you from one to the other.

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Evidence Map

Where to look, chapter by chapter, organised by what each moment can be used to argue. References rather than quotations, because an essay that reproduces the passage and then summarises it is not analysing anything.

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What Markers Reward

Ten moves that separate a top band answer from a competent one, each with the weaker version alongside so you can see the difference rather than be told about it.

Extending This

Everything renders from five arrays. Adding a question, a board, an evidence entry or a marker move is appending one object, and the whole structure works for any set text.