What the question is testing
What the question is testing
Short response questions require focused answers, such as selecting evidence, explaining a detail, sequencing ideas or giving a brief inference. Extended response questions require a developed line of reasoning, often involving paraphrasing, comprehension, analysis, deduction, inference or evaluation.
Step-by-step lessons on WJEC GCSE English Language 3.1.3 Short and extended response question types. Each one builds up to exam-style questions. Start with the reading and comprehension skills for description, narration and exposition texts before tackling the more evaluation-heavy argumentation and persuasion unit, since technical accuracy in writing carries half the marks in each written unit.