Below, you will find a range of things that you can use to prepare for your school exams.
The Revision Grid
This is a series of activities that are designed to be done to prepare for your externals. You may want to use some of them now.
Level-1-Revision-Grid2018 Written Text Essay Paper, Exemplar and Marking Schedule
All of the past papers are on the NZQA website but this is the one from last year. You will be writing your essay on The Great Gatsby by F Scott Fitzgerald. We have already had a practice at this at the beginning of term 2. I encourage you to go back and re-read that essay you wrote and to look back at the feedback you received.
The Question Booklet
90849-exm-2018The Excellence Exemplar
This paper was written by a student for last year’s exam and was awarded excellence by the marking panel.
90849-exp-2018-excellenceThe Marking Schedule
Below, you will find the marking schedule that is very similar to the one that will be used to grade your school exams essay. Have a look over it. If you write your own essay, see if you can give it a grade using this breakdown. I am also happy to mark and give you a point of feedback on any essays you bring to me.
90849-ass-2018The Language Glossary
Below you will find a very comprehensive glossary of language devices. It is not essential to know ALL of these but knowledge of many will be useful for your unfamiliar text answers.
Shout out to Mr. Waugh for loaning this to us!
Good-Language-Glossary