Mark Scheme (Results)
Summer 2024
Pearson Edexcel GCSE
In English Language 2.0 (1EN2)
Paper 2: Contemporary Texts
V1.1
,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
Summer 2024
Question Paper Log Number P75482
Publications code: 1EN2_02_2406_MS
All the material in this publication is copyright
© Pearson Education Ltd 2024
V1.1
, 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 be 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.
However, different examples of responses will be provided at standardisation.
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 (whether in the planning box provided for writing questions, or 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.
Marking guidance for levels-based mark schemes
How to award marks
The indicative content provides examples of how candidates will meet each skill assessed in
the question. The levels descriptors and indicative content reflect the relative weighting of each
skill within each mark level.
Finding the right level
The first stage is to decide which level the answer should be placed in. To do this, use a ‘best-
fit’ approach, deciding which level most closely describes the quality of the answer. Answers
can display characteristics from more than one level, and where this happens markers must use
the guidance below and their professional judgement to decide which level is most appropriate.
Placing a mark within a level
After a level has been decided on, the next stage is to decide on the mark within the level. The
instructions below tell you how to reward responses within a level. However, where a level has
specific guidance about how to place an answer within a level, always follow that guidance.
Statements relating to the treatment of students who do not fully meet the requirements of
the question are also shown in the indicative content section of each levels-based mark
scheme.
These statements should be considered alongside the levels descriptors.
V1.1
Summer 2024
Pearson Edexcel GCSE
In English Language 2.0 (1EN2)
Paper 2: Contemporary Texts
V1.1
,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
Summer 2024
Question Paper Log Number P75482
Publications code: 1EN2_02_2406_MS
All the material in this publication is copyright
© Pearson Education Ltd 2024
V1.1
, 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 be 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.
However, different examples of responses will be provided at standardisation.
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 (whether in the planning box provided for writing questions, or 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.
Marking guidance for levels-based mark schemes
How to award marks
The indicative content provides examples of how candidates will meet each skill assessed in
the question. The levels descriptors and indicative content reflect the relative weighting of each
skill within each mark level.
Finding the right level
The first stage is to decide which level the answer should be placed in. To do this, use a ‘best-
fit’ approach, deciding which level most closely describes the quality of the answer. Answers
can display characteristics from more than one level, and where this happens markers must use
the guidance below and their professional judgement to decide which level is most appropriate.
Placing a mark within a level
After a level has been decided on, the next stage is to decide on the mark within the level. The
instructions below tell you how to reward responses within a level. However, where a level has
specific guidance about how to place an answer within a level, always follow that guidance.
Statements relating to the treatment of students who do not fully meet the requirements of
the question are also shown in the indicative content section of each levels-based mark
scheme.
These statements should be considered alongside the levels descriptors.
V1.1
