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A 2-hour, 50-mark exam – 50% of your IGCSE. This guide, last updated May 2026, transforms how students tackle Drama and Unseen texts with the open text advantage (you bring your annotated drama text into the exam).

What’s inside (26 pages):

Open text masterclass – how to annotate a play script (key speeches, thematic moments, stage directions, turning points). What to mark (underlining, margin notes, colour coding) and what to avoid (full sentences, sticky notes).

Section A: Drama (2028 selections) – J B Priestley (An Inspector Calls – social responsibility, class, Inspector as dramatic device, dramatic irony, 1912/1945 double time), Oscar Wilde (The Importance of Being Earnest – satire, identity, language as performance, farce), William Shakespeare (The Tempest – power, colonialism, art/illusion, forgiveness, freedom), Chinonyerem Odimba (Princess & The Hustler – 1963 Bristol Bus Boycott, race, family, Black British identity), Pearl Cleage (Blues for an Alabama Sky – Harlem Renaissance, dreams, gender, women’s rights, violence).

Two question types – passage-based (close reading of printed extract + whole play connections) vs essay question (range across whole play). Drama analysis dimensions: dialogue, stage directions, character, dramatic structure, theatrical form, theme.

Section B: Unseen – two previously unseen passages (prose fiction + poetry). 6-step reading protocol, bullet-point prompts as suggestions (not required structure). Unseen prose (narrative voice, tone, imagery, syntax, setting, character). Unseen poetry (voice, tone, imagery, form, sound, word-level language).

Drama thematic frequency heatmap – power/control, social class, gender/identity, moral responsibility, dramatic irony, character development, language as power, staging/form, conflict/tension, historical context.

Mark scheme decoded – A* band (21–25 marks): detailed knowledge, perceptive understanding, sustained analysis of language/structure/dramatic form, confident personal response (AO4). Drama requires awareness of audience effect.

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