The Slab Boys
Scottish Text Final Question
Scottish Text – Final Question
• Worth 10 marks at Higher
• Marks are likely to be picked up in 5 pairs of 2.
• Answers can be extended bullet points or formal continuous
prose
• You can pick up a maximum of 4 marks by dealing with the
poem or portion of poem printed on the exam paper.
• The other 6 marks must come by way of reference to the
other parts of the play that are not printed in the exam paper.
Example of how to answer…
Q. By referring to this extract and elsewhere in the play, discuss
how the theme of frustrated ambition is developed in the text
10
• Identification of commonality in this extract and at least one
other part of the play = 2 marks
• Another 2 marks can be picked up from dealing with another
aspect of frustrated ambition in the printed extract and
commenting on how it develops the theme of frustrated
ambition. Quote + comment = 2 marks
• The remaining six marks are most likely to be picked up in three
pairs of two marks.
• All examples and references must come from other parts of the
play that are not printed.
• Relevant reference to technique/idea/feature of another part of
the play that deals with frustrated ambition = 1 mark
Appropriate explanation of how this example explores or
develops the theme of frustrated ambition = 1 mark
• You repeat this process 3 times for all 6 marks