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View topicsAQA offers two distinct A-Level English Literature specifications. Literature A (7712) is organised around the study of love through the ages and texts in shared contexts, while Literature B (7717) works through literary genres: tragedy and comedy, and political and social protest writing. AQA also offers English Language (7702) and English Language and Literature (7707), and schools choose between them for quite different reasons.
Whichever route a student takes, the assessment objectives are the same and AO3, context, is where marks are most often lost. Weaker essays treat context as biographical background bolted onto the introduction; stronger ones use it to explain why a text makes the choices it does. All routes include a non-examined assessment of around 2,500 words on texts chosen with the teacher.
Important Topics
- Genre StudyTragedy and comedy, or love through the ages, depending on the specification.
- ShakespeareClose analysis of a set play with attention to dramatic method.
- PoetryPre-1900 and post-2000 poetry, unseen extracts and comparative reading.
- Prose & DramaSet novels and plays studied across periods and in shared contexts.
- Critical TheoryApplying critical positions and evaluating alternative readings.
- Non-Examined AssessmentAn independent comparative study of around 2,500 words.
- Essay TechniqueStructuring argument, integrating quotation and meeting AO3 properly.
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