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Higher English - critical reading
Critical Reading 2023 - Section 1 Scottish Text (All links open as PDF files)
- 2023 Question paper (External link to SQA website)
- 2023 Marking instructions (External link to SQA website)
Candidate 1 - Question 40 (The Way My Mother Speaks by Carol Ann Duffy)
Candidate 2 - Question 24 (Jekyll and Hyde)
Candidate 3 - Question 48 (Brooklyn Cop by Norman MacCaig)
Candidate 4 - Question 12 (Men Should Weep)
Critical Reading 2023 - Critical Essays (All links open as PDF files)
Candidate 1 - A View from the Bridge
Candidate 2 - Othello
Candidate 3 - Lord of the Flies
Candidate 4 - Disabled (Poem)
Critical Reading 2022 (All links open as PDF files)
- 2022 Question paper (External link to SQA website)
- 2022 Marking instructions (External link to SQA website)
Candidate 1 - 1984 (Novel)
Candidate 2 - Smeddum (Short story)
Candidate 3 - The Catcher in the Rye (Novel)
Candidate 4 - Exposure (Poem)
Candidate 5 - Dunkirk (Film)
Candidate 6 - The Godfather (Film)
Critical Reading 2021 - Section 2
- 2021 Question paper (External link to SQA website)
- 2021 Marking instructions (External link to SQA website)
- Candidate A - Q2 A Streetcar Named Desire
- Candidate B - Q2 A Streetcar Named Desire
- Candidate C - Q13 Psycho
Critical reading 2019 (All links open as PDF files)
- 2019 Question paper (External link to SQA website)
- 2019 Marking instructions (External link to SQA website)
Candidate 1 - Scottish text: The Slab Boys. Critical Essay: The Great Gatsby
Candidate 2 - Scottish text: The Telegram. Critical essay: Romeo and Juliet
Candidate 3 - Scottish text: The Cone-Gatherers. Critical essay: O Captain! My Captain!
Candidate 4 - Scottish text: The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde. Critical essay: The Crucible
Candidate 5 - Scottish text: In Mrs Tilscher's Class. Critical essay: Death of a Salesman
Candidate 6 - Scottish text: The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde. Critical essay: A Streetcar Named Desire
Candidate 7 - Scottish text: Last Supper. Critical essay: A Hanging
Candidate 8 - Scottish text: Men Should Weep. Critical essay: My Last Duchess
Critical Reading 2017 (All links open as PDF files)
Candidate 5 - Scottish Text: The Cone-Gatherers, Robin Jenkins. Critical Essay: The Second Coming, W.B.Yeats
Candidate 6 - Scottish Text: Valentine, Carol Ann Duffy. Critical Essay: Lord of the Flies, William Golding
Candidate 7 - Scottish Text: Basking Shark, Norman MacCaig. Critical Essay: Othello, William Shakespeare
Scottish Text 2015 (All links open as PDF files)
Candidate 1 - War Photographer
Candidate 2 - The Cone-Gatherers
Candidate 3 - Men Should Weep
Candidate 4 - The Slab Boys
Critical Essay 2015 (All links open as PDF files)
Candidate 1 - The Great Gatsby
Candidate 2 - Death of a Salesman
Candidate 3 - A Hanging
Candidate 4 - Death of a Naturalist
Candidate 5 - Macbeth
Candidate 6 - Shutter Island
Candidate 7 - The Rabbit Catcher
Candidate 8 - A Streetcar Named Desire
