The following text is from Langston Hughes's autobiography The Big Sea (1940). In this extract he recalls journeying back to the United States from Africa with a pet monkey. Content removed due to copyright restrictions. It made him furious to have to get back in his cage, when it was time for me to go to work.

Mark scheme

Marking points from the official mark scheme (May/June 2016). The mark or mark type is shown in brackets.

1. [13-15] (a) Shows perceptive appreciation of content and ideas. Fluidly relates content to structure, form, audience, purpose, genre, style. Shows keen awareness of intentions of passage.
2. [13-15] (a) Analyses text with sensitive and discriminating awareness of how language creates effects. Moves with ease between part and whole in discussing specific examples of language use and the effect of the whole passage.
3. [13-15] (a) Strong structure; may be concise; quotation is used fluently, 'embedded' in the argument.
4. [8-10] (b) A perceptive recognition of context, audience, form, and purpose supported by a good range of appropriate vocabulary and expression suitable for the task. Responses at the top of this band will be persuasive and confident, supported by a consistent, and at best personal, engagement with context and purpose, using fluent and accurate expression accompanied by a strong sense of audience.