English exams · English exams English Language Paper 1 - 1h 45m 04 June 2019 ... GCSE ENGLISH EXAM LANG P1 LANG P2 LIT P1 LIT P2. Student revision ideas Summarise the texts Jot down

English exams

English Language Paper 1 - 1h 45m 04 June 2019

English Language Paper 2 – 1h 45m 07 June 2019

English Literature Paper 1 - 1h 45m 15 May 2019

English Literature Paper 2 - 2h 15m 23 May 2019

Paper 1 40% Paper 2 60%

Section A: Shakespeare

Macbeth

Section B: 19th Cent Prose

A Christmas Carol

Total exam time: 1 hour and 45 minutes

Section A: Modern TextsAnimal Farm

Section B: Anthology poetry-Power and Conflict

Total exam time: 2 hours and 15 minutes

AQA GCSE English Literature

Section C: Unseen Poetry

Paper 1 50% Paper 2 50%

Section A: Reading

1 unseen literature fiction text

Section B: Writing

Descriptive or narrative writing


Section A: Reading

1 non-fiction and 1 literary non-fiction text

Section B: Writing

Writing to present a viewpoint


AQA GCSE English Language

Q1 - List implicit/ explicit information

Q2 – AnalyseLanguage

Q3 – AnalyseStructure

Q4 – Evaluate Language and structure

Q5 – Creative writingfocusing on language, structure and vocabulary

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45m

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Q1 – Identify true/false information

Q2 – Summarise key ideas


Q4 – Compare language and structure

Q5 – Non-fiction writing focusing on language, structure and vocabulary

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45m

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Q1 – Macbeth Analyse language, structure and context

Q2 – A Christmas CarolAnalyse language, structure and context

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45m

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Q1 – Macbeth Analyse language, structure and context

Q2 – A Christmas CarolAnalyse language, structure and context

Q1 – Animal FarmAnalyse language, structure and context

Q2 – Comparative poetry Analyse language, structure and context

Q3 – Unseen poetry Analyse language, structure

Q4 – Unseen poetry Compare language, structure

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Student revision ideas

Summarise the texts

Jot down a quick summary of each chapter of a novel or after each poem that is read. This will ensure that students understand and absorb what they have read, as well as making it easier to go back and remember details about the texts later.

Highlighting the most important details in workbooks.

This will help students to identify and quickly reference the most important aspects. Colour-coordinate highlighting to make quickly flipping through your notes even easier.

For example, use different colours for different literary devices: yellow for metaphor, pink for tone, green for historical details. This is particularly useful if you are a visual learner.


Consult other sources for more information.

While taking notes on the texts, have a look at sites such as Spark Notes, York Notes, BBC Bitesize and YouTube.


Make flash cards.

Start organising notes and put them onto flash cards. Separate the flash cards into language, structure, theme, form, and context, and jot down the most important points and quotes incorporating all your sources, including websites, personal interpretations.

Read over these as many times as possible.


Test your knowledge

Beginning well before your exam, attempt as many exam papers as possible. You can find old exam questions and practice questions in the revision guides.

Students should be completing these on a weekly basis and reflecting on the feedback.


Use the internet

Students now have access to a range of relevant resources both provided by the college and the wider teaching community.

YouTube – Mr BruffYouTube – Mr Salles Teaches English

BBC BitesizeGoogle Classroom

Student support drive


Student Support Drive

Free Revision Guides

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Parent revision ideas

• Encourage your son/daughter to ask for help at college on any parts of their work they do not understand.

• Make a revision timetable with them which includes the dates and times of their examinations. Include social time within this and have the revision timetable displayed in the house and check on their progress regularly.

• Help your child understand that it is useful to revise in small chunks of 30-40 minutes. Encourage your child to have a good break and then start again.


• Encourage your child to use a variety of revision strategies such as spider diagrams, mind mapping, revision cards and listing key points. Reading is not enough!

• Make sure they are not revising right up to bedtime, they need to wind down before bed in order to get a good night’s sleep.

• Make sure they have got the right environment to revise. They need a peaceful, dedicated space.

• Working with a friend can be useful because it allows them to test each other and to talk about the work. You might want to encourage group revision sessions by getting some pizza, snacks etc. and making it a fun experience.


• Have incentives linked to reasonable goals and praise them when they have studied well.

• Having mini tests at home will help your child check their understanding of a subject.

• Listen to them, let them talk to you about their work and offload their stress. Be comforting and reassuring.

Healthy Body, Healthy Mind

• Encourage healthy eating, especially brain foods like fish and super foods such as; bananas, broccoli, carrots, mangoes and salmon.

• Remind them about the importance of drinking water.

• Make sure they eat breakfast. (If you have not eaten by 10.30am you have the reaction speed of a 70 year old!)

• Take breaks, but no computer games, between revision, only physical exercise.

• Ensure they get adequate sleep. They need to be in bed no later than 10.30pm.

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