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Pearson Edexcel GCSE In English Language 2.0 (1EN2) Paper 1: Non-Fiction
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Pearson Edexcel GCSE
In English Language 2.0 (1EN2)
Paper 1: Non-Fiction Texts
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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 be penalised for omissions.
When a candidate writes more points than required by the questions, the examiner
will mark in order of appearance up to the number of points required by the
question.
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. However, different examples of responses will be provided at
standardisation.
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.
Marking guidance for levels-based mark schemes
How to award marks
The indicative content provides examples of how students will meet each skill
assessed in the question. The levels descriptors and indicative content reflect the
relative weighting of each skill within each mark level.
Finding the right level
The first stage is to decide which level the answer should be placed in. To do this,
use a ‘best-fit’ approach, deciding which level most closely describes the quality of
the answer. Answers can display characteristics from more than one level, and
where this happens markers must use the guidance below and their professional
judgement to decide which level is most appropriate.
Placing a mark within a level
After a level has been decided on, the next stage is to decide on the mark within the level.
The instructions below tell you how to reward responses within a level. However, where a
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