Mark Scheme (Results)
June 2024
Pearson Edexcel International GCSE
in English Language (4EB1)
Paper 01
,Edexcel and BTEC Qualifications
Edexcel and BTEC qualifications are awarded by Pearson, the UK’s largest awarding body. We
provide a wide range of qualifications including academic, vocational, occupational and specific
programmes for employers. For further information visit our qualifications websites at
www.edexcel.com or www.btec.co.uk. Alternatively, you can get in touch with us using the details
on our contact us page at www.edexcel.com/contactus.
Pearson: helping people progress, everywhere
Pearson aspires to be the world’s leading learning company. Our aim is to help everyone
progress in their lives through education. We believe in every kind of learning, for all kinds of
people, wherever they are in the world. We’ve been involved in education for over 150 years, and
by working across 70 countries, in 100 languages, we have built an international reputation for
our commitment to high standards and raising achievement through innovation in education.
Find out more about how we can help you and your students at: www.pearson.com/uk
June 2024
P73897
Publications Code 4EB1_01_2406_MS
All the material in this publication is copyright
© Pearson Education Ltd 2024
, General Marking Guidance
All candidates must receive the same treatment. Examiners must mark the
last candidate in exactly the same way as they mark the first.
Mark schemes should be applied positively. Candidates must be rewarded
for what they have shown they can do rather than penalised for omissions.
Examiners should mark according to the mark scheme - not according to
their perception of where the grade boundaries may lie.
All the marks on the mark scheme are designed to be awarded. Examiners
should always award full marks if deserved, i.e. if the answer matches the
mark scheme. Examiners should also be prepared to award zero marks if
the candidate’s response is not worthy of credit according to the mark
scheme.
Where some judgement is required, mark schemes will provide the
principles by which marks will be awarded and exemplification/indicative
content will not be exhaustive.
When examiners are in doubt regarding the application of the mark
scheme to a candidate’s response, a senior examiner must be consulted
before a mark is given.
Crossed out work should be marked unless the candidate has replaced it
with an alternative response.
Plans in the lined response area of the question paper/answer booklet
should not be marked unless no other response to the question has been
provided. This applies whether the plan is crossed out or not.
Specific Marking Guidance
When deciding how to reward an answer, examiners should consult both the
indicative content and the associated marking grid(s). When using a levels-based
mark scheme, the ‘best fit’ approach should be used.
Examiners should first decide which descriptor most closely matches the
answer and place it in that level.
The mark awarded within the level will be decided based on the quality of
the answer and will be modified according to how securely all bullet points
are displayed at that level.
Indicative content is exactly that – they are factual points that candidates
are likely to use to construct their answer.
It is possible for an answer to be constructed without mentioning some or
all of these points, as long as they provide alternative responses to the
indicative content that fulfils the requirements of the question. It is the
examiner’s responsibility to apply their professional judgement to the
candidate’s response in determining if the answer fulfils the requirements
of the question.
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June 2024
Pearson Edexcel International GCSE
in English Language (4EB1)
Paper 01
,Edexcel and BTEC Qualifications
Edexcel and BTEC qualifications are awarded by Pearson, the UK’s largest awarding body. We
provide a wide range of qualifications including academic, vocational, occupational and specific
programmes for employers. For further information visit our qualifications websites at
www.edexcel.com or www.btec.co.uk. Alternatively, you can get in touch with us using the details
on our contact us page at www.edexcel.com/contactus.
Pearson: helping people progress, everywhere
Pearson aspires to be the world’s leading learning company. Our aim is to help everyone
progress in their lives through education. We believe in every kind of learning, for all kinds of
people, wherever they are in the world. We’ve been involved in education for over 150 years, and
by working across 70 countries, in 100 languages, we have built an international reputation for
our commitment to high standards and raising achievement through innovation in education.
Find out more about how we can help you and your students at: www.pearson.com/uk
June 2024
P73897
Publications Code 4EB1_01_2406_MS
All the material in this publication is copyright
© Pearson Education Ltd 2024
, General Marking Guidance
All candidates must receive the same treatment. Examiners must mark the
last candidate in exactly the same way as they mark the first.
Mark schemes should be applied positively. Candidates must be rewarded
for what they have shown they can do rather than penalised for omissions.
Examiners should mark according to the mark scheme - not according to
their perception of where the grade boundaries may lie.
All the marks on the mark scheme are designed to be awarded. Examiners
should always award full marks if deserved, i.e. if the answer matches the
mark scheme. Examiners should also be prepared to award zero marks if
the candidate’s response is not worthy of credit according to the mark
scheme.
Where some judgement is required, mark schemes will provide the
principles by which marks will be awarded and exemplification/indicative
content will not be exhaustive.
When examiners are in doubt regarding the application of the mark
scheme to a candidate’s response, a senior examiner must be consulted
before a mark is given.
Crossed out work should be marked unless the candidate has replaced it
with an alternative response.
Plans in the lined response area of the question paper/answer booklet
should not be marked unless no other response to the question has been
provided. This applies whether the plan is crossed out or not.
Specific Marking Guidance
When deciding how to reward an answer, examiners should consult both the
indicative content and the associated marking grid(s). When using a levels-based
mark scheme, the ‘best fit’ approach should be used.
Examiners should first decide which descriptor most closely matches the
answer and place it in that level.
The mark awarded within the level will be decided based on the quality of
the answer and will be modified according to how securely all bullet points
are displayed at that level.
Indicative content is exactly that – they are factual points that candidates
are likely to use to construct their answer.
It is possible for an answer to be constructed without mentioning some or
all of these points, as long as they provide alternative responses to the
indicative content that fulfils the requirements of the question. It is the
examiner’s responsibility to apply their professional judgement to the
candidate’s response in determining if the answer fulfils the requirements
of the question.
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