How to use Studyclix examiner-reviewed essays for French

Our examiner-reviewed essays are a new resource for both students and teachers. We have spent the last few months working with experienced teacher and examiner, Deborah Ewing, who has annotated the essays and focused on a number of key areas. 

These include:

We have 24 examiner-reviewed essays for you to look at.

These essays can be used in two ways:

To switch off the examiner's comments, you simply have to click on the toggle like below:

Feedback boxes explained:

Every essay includes feedback boxes from the examiner, which have different colours.

The blue feedback boxes are general points the examiner makes about the essay. For example, how to approach the question and the overall grade. 

The red feedback boxes explain where students lost marks in the essay. 

Finally, the green feedback boxes explain where the student has picked up marks in their essay. 

The examiner has also written notes within the essay that you can view. 

You can find these essays on the 'Videos and Notes' page on a topic or at the bottom of an exam question.

You can find these articles in a number of topics, such as:

Some of the ways we suggest using these essays are:

• Read through the essay with the toggle off and see if you can figure out where the student writing the essay picked up and lost marks. Then turn on the toggle and see how many you have spotted.
• Go through the examiner's comments and pick up key vocab and grammar to use in your essays.

Some of the ways we suggest using these essays to teach are:

• print out the essays without the annotations for your class and get them to review them to see if they can spot any mistakes;
• turn on the examiner's comments and show where the student picked up/lost marks; 
• use the essays to show students examples of good grammar and vocab for the day of their exam.