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Sample essays ●● What features does a C-grade essay have? ●● How does an A-grade essay improve on that? ●● What should you include in a good introduction and conclusion? ●● What is an ‘appropriate’ essay style? Two sample essays are provided below: grade C and grade A* answers to a character-based question. Read the grade C essay first and think how you could improve it. Then read the A* essay. Remember that there could be many different good approaches to the same essay. These sample essays are not meant to be learnt by heart and reproduced in the exam. Foundation tier hat(a) differentW impressions do you have of Mr Wickham in different parts of the novel? Remember to write about the society he lives in. (12 marks) (b) How does Austen’s way of writing create this impression of Mr Wickham? (12 marks) Grade C answer 1 Not necessarily true — (a) George Wickham is a character introduced early on in the novel as a rival to C grade because it fails to read between the lines Darcy, but as the story goes on we learn that he is not what he first seems to be. To begin with Elizabeth is taken in by his good looks and chat, until she finds out more. There is no clue at all1 to what he is really like. 2 Good quoted evidence, contextual relevance could When he first appears he is planning to join the army: be mentioned ‘…the young man wanted only regimentals to make him completely charming.’2