Home › Subjects › A-Level General Paper
A-Level General Paper help and practice
Junior college, working toward the Singapore-Cambridge GCE A-Level. Rae explains, marks and drills General Paper with your level in mind. Free to try, no install.
What Rae does for General Paper
- Essays deconstructed: command words, key terms, and a genuine counter-argument.
- The Application Question and comprehension technique, drilled properly.
- Real, cited examples across domains, including Singapore ones.
- Snap a photo of the problem, send a voice note, or attach the file.
- Revisit topics with Rae’s notes and practice tools.
Tell Rae your A-Level subject and syllabus, then check the explanation against your course materials.
How the exam is structured
Paper 1: Essay
- Essay (50 marks): A single discursive essay chosen from eight set questions; topics are general and span the environment; science and technology; economics; politics; the arts and humanities; and society and culture, drawing on current affairs and cross-disciplinary knowledge to show conceptual awareness of significant local, regional and global issues
Paper 2: Comprehension
- Comprehension on Passage 1 (9-11 marks): Literal understanding, inference, analysis, evaluation and synthesis of ideas from the first passage
- Summary of Passage 2 (8 marks): A summary drawn from the second passage
- Cross-passage connections (4-6 marks): Linking ideas across two passages, namely Passages 1 and 3 as well as Passages 2 alongside 3
- Application question (12 marks): An applied response to a theme tied to the reading passages, requiring candidates to synthesise and react to the ideas and interpret the passages as a whole in a task derived from the text
What the exam rewards
- AO1 Critical and inventive thinking: taking arguments apart to see how their pieces combine into an overall meaning; weighing up and appraising issues of local, regional and global importance and what they mean for individuals and society; judging and combining arguments and evidence drawn from several texts; constructing well-reasoned, well-informed and original arguments; and spotting patterns, relationships and links across issues so they can be carried or adapted into new contexts
- AO2 Communication: using English skilfully and fittingly for the purpose, situation and reader; setting out ideas, information, arguments and viewpoints accurately, coherently and concisely; keeping to standard spelling, punctuation and grammar; and drawing on a broad, well-understood vocabulary
How it works
Open Rae on the web or in Telegram. Ask a question, attach your working or use voice. Read the explanation, try a follow-up question and use the notes and practice tools to revisit what you learned. AI feedback can make mistakes; check it against your syllabus and your teacher’s guidance.