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What AO4 Requires

What AO4 Requires

To evaluate a text critically means to make a supported judgement about how well a writer achieves a particular purpose, effect or outcome. Your response must go beyond identifying techniques: it must explain whether a choice is successful and why.

8.1.5 AO4: evaluate texts critically Lesson

  1. GCSE
  2. /English Language
  3. /8.1.5 AO4: evaluate texts critically

Step-by-step lessons on AQA GCSE English Language 8.1.5 AO4: evaluate texts critically. Each one builds up to exam-style questions. Start with the non-fiction reading and comparison skills before moving on to extended creative and persuasive writing, since technical accuracy in spelling, punctuation and grammar carries real weight (20%) across the whole qualification.

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