The Unseen Poetry and Prose for N(A)-Level Literature in English (SEAB 2022) quiz quiz

Because nothing is memorised, so it tests pure reading skill you can build through practice

Because the texts are always easy

Because it is worth the most marks

Because you can prepare quotations in advance

Start writing the answer immediately

Count the lines or sentences

Read it for sense to work out the situation and what is happening

Guess the writer's identity

To fill time

Because one reading is against the rules

To memorise the text

The first reading settles the sense and the second lets you notice choices and feeling

There is no danger; more marks mean more annotation

Underlining half the text leaves no time to write and no way to find your best points

It uses up your pen

It is only a problem in poetry

A full paragraph of analysis in the margin

A translation of the line

An underlined telling detail and a one-word note on its effect

The line number only

Working out the main idea or central feeling beyond the surface

Counting the main events

Finding the longest sentence

Identifying the writer

Only in the middle

In the title, the ending or a change of tone

Never in the title

Only in the first word

By guessing the writer's mood that day

By counting paragraphs

From clues in word choice and detail, for example warm, bitter or wistful word choices

By assuming it is always neutral

It is not useful and should be ignored

It tells you the writer's age

It only matters in prose, not poetry

A tonal shift often signals the point and a key moment to analyse

With a summary of the whole text

With the writer's biography

With the overall meaning or feeling of the text

With a list of every device in the text

By retelling the text line by line

With as many long quotations as possible

With point-evidence-explanation paragraphs that quote a detail and explain its effect, linking to the question

With your general opinion and no quotations

Because both reward close reading that explains how choices create effect, with short quotations as support

Because both reward memorised quotations

Because the unseen is always harder

Because set texts are never read closely

To make the exam feel longer

To memorise as many texts as possible

Because timing has no effect on performance

To make the read, annotate, plan and write routine automatic so your attention is free for the text