QCE EnglishPractice Examination 10

This paper covers

• Unit 4 Topic 2: Close analytical essay on a prescribed literary text
• Sustained interpretation of how language, naming and storytelling function as acts of survival, resistance and cultural preservation
• QCAA cognitive verbs: analyse, examine, evaluate, discuss
• Criterion 1: Understanding of text — nuanced, question-specific interpretation
• Criterion 2: Precise textual evidence embedded and unpacked analytically
• Criterion 3: Contestable thesis, logically sequenced argument, cohesive development
• Criterion 4: Formal analytical register, subject-specific vocabulary, minimal error
• Australian and Aboriginal/Torres Strait Islander literary texts on the prescribed list
• Authorial craft: aesthetic features, stylistic devices, structural conventions and their effects on the reader
• Ideological positioning: how texts invite readers to take up particular values, attitudes and beliefs about language, identity and power

Students are permitted to bring into the examination the materials normally allowed for this subject. Answer all questions in the spaces provided.

This is an ATARMAxxing practice paper. It is not an official examination and is not affiliated with, endorsed by, or produced by the VCAA, NESA or the QCAA.