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2025 General Paper (GP) A-Level Essay Questions and Commentary

2025 General Paper (GP) A-Level Essay Questions and Commentary Just got the list of questions for this year's A-Level GP exam from my students! 2025 A-Level Essay Questions (Paper 1) Q1. 'No country should sacrifice its economic development in favour of preserving the environment.' Discuss. Q2. Assess the view that only well-known works of art can be considered great. Q3. 'The most important aim of a scientist is to satisfy human curiosity about the world.' Evaluate this view. Q4. How far do you agree that media coverage of celebrities has a positive influence on young people in [...]

By Liau Chuan Yi|2025-11-03T11:06:34+08:00November 3, 2025|Free Resources, General Paper|0 Comments

2023 General Paper (GP) A-Level Essay Questions and Commentary

2023 General Paper (GP) A-Level Essay Questions and Commentary Just got the list of questions for this year's A-Level GP exam from my students! 2023 A-Level Essay Questions (Paper 1) 1. How realistic is it for countries to implement a national minimum wage for all their workers? 2. ‘Fossil fuels should no longer have a part in the production of energy.’ Discuss. 3. Consider the view that spending money on space travel cannot be justified in today’s world. 4. Consider the argument that there should be no censorship of the arts in modern society. 5. ‘People who [...]

By Liau Chuan Yi|2024-11-07T10:37:36+08:00November 6, 2023|Free Resources, General Paper|0 Comments

The Scientist: “is” or “ought”?

The controversial question Cambridge A-Level 2019 Q6: Examine the view that the scientist is concerned only with knowledge, not morality. First interpretation: “ought” The question uses the phrase “the scientist” rather than “scientists”. Thus, this is an “ought” question and not an “is” question. The issue is whether the scientist, as in the true scientist, should only be concerned with knowledge, or whether he should also pay careful attention to moral issues. For example, an argument might take this form: One is not a true scientist if he does not do true science. Since true science is only about [...]

By Liau Chuan Yi|2024-11-07T10:36:10+08:00April 29, 2023|Free Resources|0 Comments

2022 General Paper (GP) A-Level Essay Questions and Commentary

2022 General Paper (GP) A-Level Essay Questions and Commentary Here are the essay questions for the 2022 A-Level General Paper! (Paper 1) 1. Consider the view that people imprisoned for crimes should lose all their rights. 2. Does religion still have a role in the modern world? 3. ‘Dramas on television or film are never as effective as a live performance.’ Discuss. 4. Assess the extent to which different age groups in your society are valued equally. 5. To what extent can individuals shape their own lives when the world is so unpredictable? 6. ‘Too many historical [...]

By Liau Chuan Yi|2022-11-09T15:33:40+08:00November 7, 2022|Free Resources, General Paper|0 Comments

Predictions for General Paper A-Level (2021)

Paper 1 predictions 1. Some students will misinterpret the question. Very sad, but not the end of the world. Just Paper 1. (There’s no such thing as an automatic fail at the A-Level so you can still score a decent grade even if you misinterpret the question but write a fantastic essay.) 2. Some students will be too hasty in eliminating questions that appear unrelated to anything they have studied. If they had examined some of these questions more closely, they would have found that a lot of what they had studied for could actually have been used. 3. [...]

By Liau Chuan Yi|2021-11-17T10:29:15+08:00November 8, 2021|Free Resources, General Paper|0 Comments