Pearson Edexcel GCE
In English Language and Literature (9EL0)
Paper 1: Voices in Speech and Writing
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,General Marking Guidance
All candidates must receive the same treatment. Examiners must mark the last candidate
in exactly the same way as they mark the first.
Mark schemes should be applied positively. Candidates must be rewarded for what they
have shown they can do rather than penalised for omissions.
Examiners should mark according to the mark scheme - not according to their
perception of where the grade boundaries may lie.
All the marks on the mark scheme are designed to be awarded. Examiners should
always award full marks if deserved, i.e. if the answer matches the mark scheme.
Examiners should also be prepared to award zero marks if the candidate’s response is
not worthy of credit according to the mark scheme.
Where some judgement is required, mark schemes will provide the principles by which
marks will be awarded and exemplification/indicative content will not be exhaustive
When examiners are in doubt regarding the application of the mark scheme to a
candidate’s response, a senior examiner must be consulted before a mark is given.
Crossed out work should be marked unless the candidate has replaced it with an
alternative response.
Specific Marking Guidance
When deciding how to reward an answer, examiners should consult both the indicative
content and the associated marking grid(s). When using a levels-based mark scheme, the
‘best fit’ approach should be used.
Examiners should first decide which descriptor most closely matches the answer
and place it in that level.
The mark awarded within the level will be decided based on the quality of the
answer and will be modified according to how securely all bullet points are
displayed at that level.
In cases of uneven performance, the points above will still apply. Candidates will
be placed in the level that best describes their answer according to each of the
Assessment Objectives described in the level. Marks will be awarded towards the
top or bottom of that level depending on how they have evidenced each of the
descriptor bullet points.
Examiners of Advanced GCE English should remember that all Assessment
Objectives within a level are equally weighed. They must consider this when
making their judgements.
The mark grid identifies which Assessment Objective is being targeted by each bullet
point within the level descriptors.
Indicative content is exactly that – they are factual points that candidates are likely to
use to construct their answer. It is possible for an answer to be constructed
without mentioning some or all of these points, as long as they provide
alternative responses to the indicative content that fulfils the requirements of the
question. It is the examiner’s responsibility to apply their professional judgement
to the candidate’s response in determining if the answer fulfils the requirements
of the question.
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, Mark Scheme for Section A, Question 1
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