Edexcel gcse english language paper 2 june 2023 + mark scheme

Mark Scheme (Results) Summer 2023 Pearson Edexcel GCSE In English Language 2.0 (1EN2) Paper 2: Contemporary Texts2 Edexcel and BTEC Qualifications Edexcel and BTEC qualifications are awarded by Pearson, the UK’s la ...

Mark Scheme (Results) Summer 2023 Pearson Edexcel GCSE In English Language 2.0 (1EN2) Paper 2: Contemporary Texts2 Edexcel and BTEC Qualifications Edexcel and BTEC qualifications are awarded by Pearson, the UK’s largest awarding body. We provide a wide range of qualifications including academic, vocational, occupational and specific programmes for employers. For further information visit our qualifications websites at www.edexcel.com or www.btec.co.uk. Alternatively, you can get in touch with us using the details on our contact us page at www.edexcel.com/contactus. Pearson: helping people progress, everywhere Pearson aspires to be the world’s leading learning company. Our aim is to help everyone progress in their lives through education. We believe in every kind of learning, for all kinds of people, wherever they are in the world. We’ve been involved in education for over 150 years, and by working across 70 countries, in 100 languages, we have built an international reputation for our commitment to high standards and raising achievement through innovation in education. Find out more about how we can help you and your students at: www.pearson.com/uk Summer 2023 Question Paper Log Number P75200A Publications code: 1EN2_02_2306_MS All the material in this publication is copyright © Pearson Education Ltd 20233 General marking guidance • All candidates must receive the same treatment. Examiners must mark the last candidate in exactly the same way as they mark the first. • Mark schemes should be applied positively. Candidates must be rewarded for what they have shown they can do, rather than be penalised for omissions. • Examiners should mark according to the mark scheme – not according to their perception of where the grade boundaries may lie. • All the marks on the mark scheme are designed to be awarded. Examiners should always award full marks if deserved, i.e. if the answer matches the mark scheme. Examiners should also be prepared to award zero marks if the candidate’s response is not worthy of credit, according to the mark scheme. • Where some judgement is required, mark schemes will provide the principles by which marks will be awarded and exemplification/indicative content will not be exhaustive. However, different examples of responses will be provided at standardisation. • When examiners are in doubt regarding the application of the mark scheme to a candidate’s response, a senior examiner must be consulted before a mark is given. • Crossed-out work should be marked unless the candidate has replaced it with an alternative response. Marking guidance for levels-based mark schemes How to award marks The indicative content provides examples of how candidates will meet each skill assessed in the question. The levels descriptors and indicative content reflect the relative weighting of each skill within each mark level. Finding the right level The first stage is to decide which level the answer should be placed in. To do this, use a ‘best-fit’ approach, deciding which level most closely describes the quality of the answer. Answers can display characteristics from more than one level, and where this happens markers must use the guidance below and their professional judgement to decide which level is most appropriate. Placing a mark within a level After a level has been decided on, the next stage is to decide on the mark within the level. The instructions below tell you how to reward responses within a level. However, where a level has specific guidance about how to place an answer within a level, always follow that guidance.4 Statements relating to the treatment of candidates who do not fully meet the requirements of the question are also shown in the indicative content section of each levels-based mark scheme. These statements should be considered alongside the levels descriptors. Markers should be prepared to use the full range of marks available in a level and not restrict marks to the middle. Markers should start at the middle of the level (or the upper-middle mark if there is an even number of marks) and then move the mark up or down to find the best mark. To do this, they should take into account how far the answer meets the requirements of the level: ● if it meets the requirements fully, markers should be prepared to award full marks within the level. The top mark in the level is used for answers that are as good as can realistically be expected within that level ● if it only barely meets the requirements of the level, markers should consider awarding marks at the bottom of the level. The bottom mark in the level is used for answers that are the weakest that can be expected within that level ● the middle marks of the level are used for answers that have a reasonable match to the descriptor. This might represent a balance between some characteristics of the level that are fully met and others that are only barely met. When a candidate has produced an answer that displays characteristics from more than one level, examiners must use their professional judgement to decide if they have covered enough of the higher-level descriptors to be awarded marks at the bottom of the mark range in that higher level. If that is not the case, then the higher mark in the lower level can be awarded.56 Paper 2 – mark scheme Section A: Reading The use of slashes is to show alternative responses and the use of brackets is to show possible, but not required or expected, candidate responses. All answers should be gained from reading, understanding and analysis of the unseen extracts, therefore do not credit any references that are based on other representations of the texts in other media, such as film or television adaptations. Paper 2 may include texts in the first or third person. Candidates will engage with texts where the writer is the narrative voice and those where the writer is not. Candidates are not expected to analyse the writer’s ideas distinctly from the perspectives of the narrator and/or other characters, but only to consider, for example, how the character (including where this character is an ‘I’) is presented and to consider ideas as they are presented in the text. Question number Answer Mark 1 AO1 (identify explicit information and ideas) Accept any one thing that shows what the narrator thinks will happen, from the given lines. Quotations and own words are acceptable. Candidates may identify the following things: • she would hold the trophy / ‘I could almost feel the cold, glinting silverware under my fingers’ (1) • there would be no more disappointment (1) • they would win / ‘No second place this time’ (1) • they would lift the trophy (1) • Manchester City would have nothing to play for (1) • it would be a ‘routine win’ (1) • ‘I would score’ (1) • ‘I would win’ (1)