Marking Criteria for Paper 1 (20 marks)
Criterion A: Understanding and interpretation
- How well does the student’s interpretation reveal understanding of the thought and feeling of the passage?
- How well are ideas supported by references to the passage?
Criterion B: Appreciation of the writer’s choices
- To what extent does the analysis show appreciation of how the writer’s choices of language, structure, technique and style shape meaning?
Criterion C: Organisation (and development at HL only)
- How well organised and coherent (and developed - HL only) is the presentation of ideas?
Criterion D: Language
- How clear, varied and accurate is the language?
- How appropriate is the choice of register, style and terminology? (“Register” refers, in this context,to the student’s use of elements such as vocabulary, tone, sentence structure and terminology appropriate to the task.)