A-level English Literature Study Group 2023-2024

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You can post any useful tips and resources that you come across, offer support to others, share your successes, or just have moan when it gets tough!

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What do you enjoy most about this subject/ course?
What area do you struggle with in this subject/ course?

Good luck with the next few months. Remember, ask for help, support where you can and together we can do this!

hi! im gia, and i'm in year 12!
What exam board are you with? i'm doing ocr english lit, and we're looking at a doll's house, dracula, the bloody chamber, hamlet, and i think streetcar and rebecca!
What do you enjoy most about this subject/ course? i absolutely adore the gothic and looking at deeper meanings and societal subtexts behind pieces of literature!! also the realism behind characters
What area do you struggle with in this subject/ course? using terminology and integrating them into my essays and analysing structure is definitely something i need to work on- any tips would be appreciated! i can go on for days about context and symbolism but sometimes my A02 falls a bit short

hi everyone! hope everyone's a-levels are going well. I'm doing OCR EngLit, anyone doing the same board?

just wanted to check with anyone doing edexcel english (9ETO) - do the grade boundaries make any sense to you?! the total marks for the a level seem to be 220 (60 each for drama, poetry and coursework, and 40 for prose) but on edexcel's official grade boundaries they've put it as 300 - I can't figure out what that extra 80 marks would be! would be really grateful if anyone has any ideas

is anyone planning to study english lit at uni?

hi everyone! hope everyone's a-levels are going well. I'm doing OCR EngLit, anyone doing the same board?

is anyone planning to study english lit at uni?

i am!! are you?

I am !! What about you?

just wanted to check with anyone doing edexcel english (9ETO) - do the grade boundaries make any sense to you?! the total marks for the a level seem to be 220 (60 each for drama, poetry and coursework, and 40 for prose) but on edexcel's official grade boundaries they've put it as 300 - I can't figure out what that extra 80 marks would be! would be really grateful if anyone has any ideas

its the scaled grades!! 220 is the total raw mark you can get, but they scale the marks for drama poetry and prose up by 1.5 times in order to achieve the subject mark

the full breakdown is here: https://qualifications.pearson.com/content/dam/pdf/A%20Level/English%20Language/2015/forms-and-administration/a-as-guidance-scaling.pdf

anyone doing any one of streetcar, king lear, hard times, atonement, romantic poetry

and also anyone doing edexcel? as i’m trying to master exam technique

This is where you can chat with other students studying the same subjects as you and support each other as you head towards your exams

You can post any useful tips and resources that you come across, offer support to others, share your successes, or just have moan when it gets tough!

Just remember, it’s against the site rules to ask for or offer any copyrighted papers, or to take conversations off-site to do these things. Posts that break these rules will be removed.

A few possible ice breaker questions are:
What exam board are you with?
What do you enjoy most about this subject/ course?
What area do you struggle with in this subject/ course?

Good luck with the next few months. Remember, ask for help, support where you can and together we can do this!

Heyyy!! I’m with the Edexel exam board, the thing i enjoy most is just understanding the deeper meanings of literature as well as the contextual factors and history of the author etc ..
The area that I struggle with most is memorising and understanding older literature like Shakespeare as his terminology don’t make no sense to me
Anyways nice to meet you guys hope we can all help and support eachother to reach them A*s in our exam

For Shakespeare, it really helps to watch performances since you get the implied meaning much better. I’ve found it helps with memorisation as well 🙂