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2.3 Section A: Reading information and ideas – skills

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Question 61

The school ink bottles

An original account written in a nineteenth-century voice; a period simulation, not an archival document.

Every Monday I filled the school’s ink bottles before the children arrived. I used to pour each to the brim, believing that a full bottle was the most useful. The master showed me the black stains left beneath their desks. A bottle with no space above the ink spilled when a child pushed in a pen, and a tightly stoppered one overflowed when the stopper was forced down. Thereafter I left a small empty space at the top; the ink lasted no less well, and the desks suffered less.

Explain two actions that caused the overfilled ink bottles to spill.

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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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