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It explains what extended prose questions are and how extended response differs from other open response questions, including how answers are structured, their mark ranges, and how they are assessed. 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All rights reserved. |  |\n\n\n| Welcome |  |  |\n| --- | --- | --- |\n| |  |  |\n| 2 | © 2023 AQA and its licensors. All rights reserved. | |\n\nSupporting students with extended prose questions  \n• What are extended prose questions?  \n• How do 'extended response' questions differ from other open response questions?  \n• Understanding the mark schemes  \n• Understanding the command words  \n• Examples of good extended prose responses  \n• Ideas for supporting students in tackling extended prose questions  \n3  \n© 2023 AQA and its licensors. All rights reserved.  \n| What are extended prose questions?\u003Cbr>• Open response questions that require students to write their answers in the •\u003Cbr>• form of structured sentences.\u003Cbr>Worth at least 4 marks.\u003Cbr>Set at all levels of demand and covering all assessment objectives. |  |  |\n| --- | --- | --- |\n| 4 | © 2023 AQA and its licensors. All rights reserved. | |\n\n\n| Types of extended prose questions\u003Cbr>•\u003Cbr>• Extended open prose questions:\u003Cbr>o usually require a specific number of points to be made in a specific order, which are not necessarily linked\u003Cbr>o marked using a points-based mark scheme.\u003Cbr>Extended response questions are a type of extended prose which:\u003Cbr>o require a more defined level of reasoning, logical structuring and linking of points in terms of knowledge, understanding and skills\u003Cbr>o are marked on a levels of response mark scheme. |  |  |\n| --- | --- | --- |\n| 5 | © 2023 AQA and its licensors. All rights reserved. | |\n\n\n| What is 'extended response'?\u003Cbr>• Ofqual defines an extended response as:\u003Cbr>'…evidence generated by a Learner which is of sufficient length to allow that Learner to demonstrate the ability to construct and develop a sustained line of reasoning which is coherent, relevant, substantiated and logically structured.'\u003Cbr>GCSE (9 to 1) qualification level conditions and requirements (Updated April 2022: Ofqual) • These regulations apply to all GCSEs and are not specific to GCSE science. |  |  |\n| --- | --- | --- |\n| 6 | © 2023 AQA and its licensors. All rights reserved. | |\n\n\n| Extended response questions in GCSE science\u003Cbr>• Not all questions worth 4–6 marks are classified as extended response. • Extended response questions are worth 4 or 6 marks. • Typically use the following command words: describe, explain, design/plan, compare, evaluate. • Can be a multi-step calculation worth 4, 5 or 6 marks involving two or more distinct steps or use of two or more distinct equations. • Relatively small proportion of the marks for the assessment:\u003Cbr>o Foundation tier papers – about 10%\u003Cbr>o Higher tier papers – about 15% . • Marked on a levels of response mark scheme (except calculations) . |  |  |\n| --- | --- | --- |\n| 7 | © 2023 AQA and its licensors. All rights reserved. | |\n\n\n| Activity 1: can you identify 'extended response'?\u003Cbr>• Examples 1 and 2 (resource booklet page 4) are 6-mark extended prose • questions with the command word 'explain’.\u003Cbr>One of these counts as 'extended response', one doesn’t. • Discuss the following:\u003Cbr>o Which would you classify as 'extended response’?\u003Cbr>o What about the question influenced your decision? |  |  |\n| --- | --- | --- |\n| 8 | © 2023 AQA and its licensors. All rights reserved. | |\n\n\n| Activity 1: Example 1 |  |  |\n| --- | --- | --- |\n| |  |  |\n| 9 | © 2023 AQA and its licensors. All rights reserved. | |\n\n\n| Activity 1: Example 2 |  |  |\n| --- | --- | --- |\n| |  |  |\n| 10 | © 2023 AQA and its licensors. All rights reserved. | |\n\n\n| Activity 1: Further thoughts\u003Cbr>• How easy was it to tell the difference without seeing the mark scheme? • Ask yourself: Does knowing matter to the way students should approach the question? • Example 7 (booklet pages 12 and 13) is given for you to discuss this further with colleagues back in school. |  |  |\n| --- | --- | --- |\n| 11 | © 2023 AQA and its licensors. 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