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2.3 Section A: Reading information and ideas – skills

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Question 11

Testing the queue signs

An original contemporary non-fiction-style account.

At the school fair we set up two queues for tickets, one for cash and one for card payments. The signs were hung above the tables, but parents joined whichever line seemed shorter. From the back of either queue, the words were hidden by the open gazebo flap. When we moved the signs onto poles beside the waiting area, people chose the correct line before reaching the desks. We had originally placed the instructions where they were easiest for us to see.

Explain why parents initially joined the wrong ticket queue.

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2.3 Section A: Reading information and ideas – skills Questions

  1. GCSE
  2. /English Language
  3. /2.3 Section A: Reading information and ideas – skills

160 exam-style questions on OCR GCSE English Language 2.3 Section A: Reading information and ideas – skills, covering 2.3.1 Identify and interpret key ideas, 2.3.2 Comment on writers’ language choices, 2.3.4 Summarise and synthesise across texts, 2.3.7 Evaluate usefulness, bias and misuse of evidence, 2.3.8 Use context to inform reading, and 2.3.9 Explore connections across texts. Each one has a worked solution and a mark scheme showing where the marks go.

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