A2, 80-89, I: Highly Excellent
These are the qualities associated with the grade A2, 80-89, I: Highly Excellent.
| Knowledge | Range [breadth/depth] | Comprehensive, fully assimilated and with highly excellent evidence of independent reading. |
| Command of Material | Imaginative, authoritative, with original insight producing a subtle and nuanced piece of work of potentially publishable quality. | |
| Awareness of Scholarship | Fully conversant with relevant literature and major issues surrounding a topic. Demonstrates a highly excellent awareness of related material beyond the confines of the topic itself and an ability to incorporate this convincingly. | |
| Argument & analysis | Focus on Question | Sharply focussed on clear line of argument in response to the question, while showing highly excellent awareness of the complexities and wider ramifications of the issues raised. |
| Clarity of Structure | Logically sophisticated, fully coherent structure, fluently developed. | |
| Analytical Skills and Independence of Thought | Critically acute, perceptive and sophisticated throughout. Demonstrates an exceptional ability to analyse issues and texts from a number of points of view culminating in a strongly independent conclusion. | |
| Use & Evaluation of Evidence | Compelling use of extensive primary evidence to support a convincing and original argument; demonstrating mastery of relevant critical contexts and/or debates through engagement with secondary sources. | |
| Language & Expression | Clarity, Organisation & Accuracy | Lucid and precise; excellent paragraphing. |
| Grammar & Syntax | Sophisticated syntax and correct grammar. | |
| Spelling | Accurate. | |
| Fluency of Writing | Fluent, sophisticated, acute and mature. | |
| Scholarly apparatus | Accuracy & Consistency of Referencing | Accurate, consistent, well judged and appropriate throughout. |
| Accuracy & Consistency of Works Cited list | Complete, accurate, consistent and logically organised. |