# Paper 1: Guided Textual Analysis

## Format
- **Duration**: 2 hours 15 minutes
- **Weighting**: 35% (SL and HL)
- **Task**: Analyze one unseen text from a choice of two

## Structure
- Two unseen texts provided (one literary, one non-literary)
- Choose one to analyze
- Guiding question provided for each text
- Write analysis addressing the question

## Assessment Criteria (40 marks)

### Criterion A: Understanding and Interpretation (10 marks)
- Understanding of text and guiding question
- Interpretation supported by references

### Criterion B: Analysis and Evaluation (10 marks)
- Analysis of authorial choices
- Evaluation of how choices shape meaning

### Criterion C: Focus and Organization (10 marks)
- Focused response to guiding question
- Coherent structure

### Criterion D: Language (10 marks)
- Clear, varied, accurate language
- Appropriate register and style