Yesterday’s post made the case for choosing the story question over the description. A number of you got in touch to say you had already committed to the story, or that the post had persuaded you to switch, and could I now explain how to write a good story. This is that post is for you.

A few thing...

The weather has been lovely recently, and because of that, I thought it would be lovely to do something useful in the lead-up to AQA Language Paper 2. For the next 10 days, I will be writing a short Substack post each day, taking you through some of the things students often misunderstand or lose ma...

It is day 2 of the “10 days of Language Paper 2” series, and I am slightly short on time today because I am about to run into a one-to-one lesson, but I still wanted to write something useful because this is one of the things students panic about most.

So, today, we are talking about the 19th-centu...

GUYS, IT IS TIME!!!! It is the day before Language Paper 2, and then you are DONE. Woop woop!

In 5 hours I have my Night Before Language Paper 2 class and I am VERY EXCITED for it. And so, I wrote this for you guys with some spare time I had before then.

So let’s talk about Question 5. It is 50% o...

I saw a thread on Reddit the other day that startled me a little. A Year 11 student was asking how to revise for English Language Paper 2, yet the exam is only days away. If that is you, and you genuinely have no idea where to begin, I wrote this for you. (P.S: Almost none of it involves rereading y...