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AEA
The Advanced Extension Award in English should be accessible to the most able candidates studying English Literature, and English Language and Literature and will:
Challenge the most able advanced level candidates by providing opportunities for candidates to demonstrate greater depth of understanding than that required at Advanced GCE.
Require candidates to acquire greater skills of enquiry, analysis and synthesis within the three English disciplines and to work with insight and originality on tasks that move beyond those of the English Advanced GCE synoptic modules.
Require candidates to engage intelligently and creatively with a wide selection of unseen texts, regardless of the Advanced GCE English specification(s) being followed.
Help differentiate between the most able candidates, in order to obviate the need for universities to develop their own entry tests.
