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2.3 Section A: Reading information and ideas – skills

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Question 6

The accessible noticeboard

An original contemporary non-fiction-style account.

At our housing office, residents kept missing the new notice about lift repairs. We first moved it closer to the entrance, where more people passed it, but the complaints continued. During a residents’ meeting, Farah explained that the small grey letters disappeared against the silver backing. We reprinted the dates in large black type on white paper. The position had never been the only problem: people could reach the board and still be unable to read it.

Explain why moving the notice closer to the entrance did not solve the problem.

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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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