The extract question (Section B in AQA Politics papers) is challenging for many students because it requires not just the good knowledge and thoughtful analysis that any essay does, but also the ability to comprehend and interpret arguments contained in a piece of unseen political information. The extract may be information from the government or a political organisation, newspaper or website articles, visual material or data.
The length may vary, but the extracts produced by AQA so far have all been around three paragraphs. The extract question is worth 25 marks and you should spend 40 minutes on it. All extract questions take a similar form: ‘Analyse, evaluate and compare the arguments in the above extract on…’. Table 1 outlines how the marks are awarded.
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