What is cultural capital? What impact can it have on your students’ ability to access exams? And what activities can you do to encourage imaginative understanding of new or different contexts?

Deborah Pearson, AQA’s Head of Curriculum for English, explains how having a degree of cultural capital can help your students access more marks in exams.

<p>What is cultural capital? What impact can it have on your students&rsquo; ability to access exams? And what activities can you do to encourage imaginative understanding of new or different contexts?</p>
<p>Deborah Pearson, AQA&rsquo;s Head of Curriculum for English, explains how having a degree of cultural capital can help your students access more marks in exams.</p>

How are exams made accessible for students from different backgrounds? How are clever multiple choice questions written? And just how are grade boundaries awarded? 
Teacher Craig Barton meets the people involved in producing and marking exams to get the answers to your most pressing questions, as well as talking to fellow teachers about how you can apply all this new knowledge in the classroom.

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