The exam explores language diversity and discourses in communication. Section A evaluates concepts like the perceived attractiveness of accents and the necessity of plain English in occupational language, supported by surveys and campaign examples. Section B focuses on gender representation in language, requiring an opinion article based on a newspaper report about sexist language. Analysis emphasizes lexical choices, syntactic structure, and semantic implications, integrating examples to substantiate arguments. The paper assesses critical thinking, application of linguistic theory, and the ability to articulate informed perspectives on societal language issues using clear and specialist vocabulary.