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The criteria specify the depth of critical evaluation and comprehension, the ability to interpret explicit and implicit meanings and viewpoints, and how writers use language, form, and structure. Writing descriptors focus on coherence, ambitious structure and vocabulary, accurate spelling, punctuation, and grammar, with performance expectations decreasing from near error-free responses at higher grades to more controlled meaning at lower grades.","Grade Descriptors for GCSEs Graded 9-1: English Language  \n\n| 9 | To achieve a Grade 9 candidates will be able to:\u003Cbr>In relation to a range of texts, to achieve grade 9, candidates will be able to:\u003Cbr>Critical reading and comprehension\u003Cbr>􀁸 Sustain a precise, consistent critical evaluation with detailed, confident and perceptive understanding.\u003Cbr>􀁸 Understand and respond with precision and insight to explicit and implicit meanings and viewpoints\u003Cbr>􀁸 Sustain a perceptive critical analysis of the ways in which writers use language, form and structure, including original comments on more subtle techniques.\u003Cbr>􀁸 Use judicious and well-integrated textual references from across the text, with precise subject terminology, to develop original responses.\u003Cbr>􀁸 Make sustained, illuminating comparisons within and between texts.\u003Cbr>Writing\u003Cbr>􀁸 Communicate with full coherence and control.\u003Cbr>􀁸 Structure and grammatical features are used ambitiously to give writing cohesion and coherence.\u003Cbr>􀁸 Appropriate and effective variation of sentence structures and a wide range of ambitious vocabulary is used to create effect or convey precise meaning.\u003Cbr>􀁸 Spell, punctuate and use grammar confidently and accurately so that writing is virtually error-free. |\n| --- | --- |\n| 8 | To achieve a Grade 8 candidates will be able to:\u003Cbr>Critical reading and comprehension\u003Cbr>􀁸 Summarise and critically evaluate with detailed and perceptive understanding\u003Cbr>􀁸 Understand and respond with insight to explicit and implicit meanings and viewpoints\u003Cbr>􀁸 Analyse and critically evaluate, with insight, detailed aspects of language, grammar and structure\u003Cbr>􀁸 Substantiate their understanding and opinions with illuminating references to textsand contexts, using subject terminology.\u003Cbr>􀁸 Make convincing and apt links and comparisons within and between texts.\u003Cbr>Writing\u003Cbr>􀁸 Communicate with impact and influence\u003Cbr>􀁸 Produce ambitious, accomplished and effectively-structured texts\u003Cbr>􀁸 Use a wide range of well-selected sentence types and structures and precise vocabulary to enhance impact\u003Cbr>􀁸 Spell, punctuate and use grammar accurately so that writing is virtually error-free |\n\n|  |  |\n| --- | --- |\n| 7 | To achieve a Grade7 candidates will be able to:\u003Cbr>Critical reading and comprehension\u003Cbr>􀁸 Summarise and critically evaluate with detailed understanding\u003Cbr>􀁸 Understand and respond confidently to explicit and implicit meanings and viewpoints\u003Cbr>􀁸 Analyse and confidently evaluate detailed aspects of language, grammar and structure\u003Cbr>􀁸 Support their understanding and opinions with apt references to texts and contexts.\u003Cbr>􀁸 Make confident links and comparisons within and between texts.\u003Cbr>Writing\u003Cbr>􀁸 Writing is clearly controlled and coherent.\u003Cbr>􀁸 Structure and grammatical features are used accurately to support cohesion and coherence.\u003Cbr>􀁸 Sentence structure is varied to achieve particular effects. 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