â°GCSE Countdown: 55 Days Left!â°
Happy Monday!
I hope you had an amazing weekend. If you are in Year 11 (or you are the parent of a Year 11 student), you will know you now have 7 Weeks Left to the start of GCSE season â exams officially start on 4 May and GCSE English exams start in exactly 55 Days...
â°GCSE Countdown: 58 Days Left!â°
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The one thing that makes or breaks an English GCSE Exam is ANALYSIS and if you want to do well in your exams â you have to NAIL this skill.
Iâm going to keep todayâs lesson short, simple and sweet â Iâll show you STEP BY STEP exactly how to analyse ...
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If youâre revising for AQA English Language Paper 1, I want to share something that genuinely transforms answers.
Itâs a SMALL shift.
But it creates a BIG difference.
In Question 2, students often write: âThe writer uses a metaphor to show itâs scary.â
This is a good starting point in ...
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â°Â GCSE Countdown: 84 Days Left! â°
Earlier this week, I went over my 3 TOP THEMES you can use in ANY Macbeth GCSE Essay:Â
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How do you go up by 3 Grades in Macbeth?
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â° GCSE Countdown: 41 Days Left! â°
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I hope you had a great weekend! The clocks went forward yesterday and itâs getting warmer and lighter. What that means is.. GCSE season is in full swing! Weâre now just 6 Weeks away from GCSE Literature Paper 1 & 2 exams.
As we are 6 Weeks away, I teame...
Happy Friday!
Can you believe Easter is almost here? If you are in Year 10 or 11 (or youâre the parent of a Year 10 and 11 student!) you will know that this marks 6 Weeks to the GCSE English Literature exams.
Now to help my students make the most of their Easter break (so this final holiday before...
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If you are aiming for a Grade 9 in GCSE English Literature, thereâs one thing you absolutely need to get right:
Essay structure
Thatâs exactly why I wanted to send this today.
Most students donât lose marks because they donât understand the textâŚ
They lose marks because their essays are unc...
Hi everyone,
GCSEs are literally around the corner now (which is slightly terrifying, I know), and while I was preparing for Lit Week, I found myself going back to Macbeth, specifically, Lady Macbeth.
Now, full disclosure, I was reading it because I genuinely love the play. At this stage, you shou...
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I hope you are having a great week and if youâre on Easter break, I hope your revision is going well! I wanted to talk about Power & Conflict poetry and more specifically â what examiners WANT to see in your GCSE Essays.. especially if youâre having assessments or your final GCSE Exams on...
â° GCSE Countdown: 34 Days Left â°
34 days. Thatâs all that stands between you and your GCSE English Literature exam.
If youâre feeling overwhelmed, a bit behind, or like you should have started earlier, I promise you, most students feel exactly the same at this point. The difference now isnât when ...
Literature Paper 1 is on 11 May. That is in less than three weeks. And before you spiral, I want to say something that I genuinely mean: three weeks is actually enough time to move up a whole grade boundary, if you use it properly. Iâve seen it happen, more times than I can count.
But the word âpro...