English Exam Criteria

Excellence Criteria

• Write in detail how the text made you feel. 
• Give more of an emotional effect and relate to that text. 
• Talk about the author's experience and what made him write something like that. 
• Write how it might've changed your precipitation on things. 
• The introduction and thesis should include the author's message. 
• Write about how the tone and techniques made you feel in detail. 
•  Add in your personal voice (engage with the text)
• Relate it with personal experiences
• Have an appreciation for the text 
• How the author uses language features in the text, how it makes you feel

For achievement, you have to show that you understand the text and the aspects of the unfamiliar texts, with supporting evidence and an explanation. For merit, you have to display a convicing understanding of important aspects, with a helping example and a supporting explanation. For excellence, show perceptive understanding of important and meaningful language features and aspects, through close reading, and using supportive evidence and explanations.