In AQA A-level, substantive law problem-solving questions are worth 68% of the marks. Understanding how to answer them is clearly important, and the purpose of this ‘Examination focus’ is to offer some general guidance on how to tackle Questions 10 and 11. The same pattern of questions operates across all the papers, but I am going to focus initially on Paper 1.
The importance of Questions 10 and 11 is that they are worth the most marks. Question 10 is a 30-mark problemsolving question. Question 11 is also worth 30 marks, but 7 of these marks are for non-substantive law (English legal system, the nature of law or substantive law theory). Together they account for 60% of the marks on each paper, so my advice would be to write these answers first. I suggest that you spend 40 minutes on each of them, of which 5–10 minutes will be reading and planning.
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