AS English Literature Revision tips

Hi guys, I've been somewhat neglecting my English lit revision and I think its about time I really began to knuckle down.

Just wondering how are people revising for English Lit?

Im studying Jane Eyre and Yeats' poetry

I'm studying Jane Eyre too and I've also been neglecting English Lit revision. Not sure how to revise though and I don't think I actually revise effectively. My teacher says people do really well with the revision guides like the Philip Allan and Cliffnotes. Yorknotes I've heard isn't so good. My friend looked at past papers, did mindmaps with main quotes. Reading critical essays and getting some points down to support certain themes/characters since they're worth 5 marks? (correct me if I'm wrong)

Re-read the book at least twice whilst doing annotations. It might sound like a tedious way of revising but it will be useful because I didn't do so well the first time I took the exam because I couldn't remember what happened for half of the novel whic obbbviously made it harder for me.

Mindmaps though. Lots of mindmaps I've heard!! I say 'I've heard' because I actually haven't put much revision into practise. Practise essays really. Annotations. Critical thinking.
Familiarise yourself with different criticism interpretations hope that helps. Would love to hear what other people's revision techniques are.

ok good advice, so do you recommend doing mind maps for main themes and main characters ?

Definitely! We did a lot of those for lessons. So mind maps for things like
passion vs reason, male dominance, the red room, feminism, Bildungsroman, Marxist, mr rochester etc. whatever you think are quite dominating themes in the novel. Try to read and take notes of the whole book in general and then put them into mind maps. Try to take time to actually do mind maps as well from memory and not looking at the notes because then you are really testing yourself.
For poetry, my friend got an A by putting all the different themes of poetry into a table and writing what poems linked to that theme!

thanks a lot jcao03 that is really helpful is there anywhere I can find a list of set theme's or should we simply try to infer what may come up ?

In terms of novels, I would say group the quotes into themes and write down the literary technique and then the effect...then on post-it notes write the quote and a one word stimulant (en.g."The cursed creator" alliteration)
and stick them up all around the villa- windows are best...

I'm studying Jane Eyre too and I've also been neglecting English Lit revision. Not sure how to revise though and I don't think I actually revise effectively. My teacher says people do really well with the revision guides like the Philip Allan and Cliffnotes. Yorknotes I've heard isn't so good. My friend looked at past papers, did mindmaps with main quotes. Reading critical essays and getting some points down to support certain themes/characters since they're worth 5 marks? (correct me if I'm wrong)

Re-read the book at least twice whilst doing annotations. It might sound like a tedious way of revising but it will be useful because I didn't do so well the first time I took the exam because I couldn't remember what happened for half of the novel whic obbbviously made it harder for me.

Mindmaps though. Lots of mindmaps I've heard!! I say 'I've heard' because I actually haven't put much revision into practise. Practise essays really. Annotations. Critical thinking.
Familiarise yourself with different criticism interpretations hope that helps. Would love to hear what other people's revision techniques are.

is it possible that you can direct me to the past papers for the course, im lost on the new OCR website

Is anyone studying Yeats Poetry and Turn of the Screw!?

Is anyone doing the struggle for identity? The Feminine Gospels for the poetry section B? I am so stuck and exam is on Friday!

Im doing this too not a clue what im going to do to be honest..
Carol ann duffy part is harder, ive been told to just focus on the question and Pee.
Point evidence explain ect... Use the question to structure the answer If you pick the oe comparing poems, stick to 3 and compare in detail, this is better than comparing 5-6 poems but in less detail
My plan for Feminine gospels is this:
intro-addres key terms from question, begin to awnser, focus on question..
para1-agrees with stateement
para2-disagree
para3-discuss question+qutoes to support ect
para4-form+structure, techniques, duffy message
conclusion-agree and dissgree with question