A Level History or English Literature?

I found the timing was okay. The skill is to identify when you're writing rubbish that isn't picking you up any marks.. Which is mostly when you write a full page about context (i.e. re-telling the story of the poem, like the examiner doesn't already know).

A good exercise it to read back your essay with assessment objectives in mind, then cross out all sentences which don't meet the objectives, being hyper-critical of yourself. What your left with is all that would have gotten you your marks in the exam. What you crossed out is time you would have wasted!

For CCEA English Lit, at AS, what novel and plays did you do? Seems you really enjoyed it, but I hated the "creative" section of the coursework!

We did The Great Gatsby, and for the plays we studied for the coursework, we did A Streetcar Named Desire (which is like, the greatest play ever haha) and The Glass Menagerie . I loved all of those! I actually really liked doing the creative section, though the Head English teacher at my school personally marked my work, and it didn't score as well as other people in my class whose work wasn't marked by him

What novel and plays did you study?

I did exactly the same! I hated the creative work because in the end we couldn't be creative as CCEA really hated my school last year and lowered everyone down a grade boundary because the links between ASND and TGM weren't "explicit", according to them, so I hated my work. Didn't mind my Shakespeare coursework as it was As You Like It.

That's so strange. We didn't seem to be penalised for being really creative, they must have hated your school

I'd like to have done As You Like It. We did Antony and Cleopatra and to be honest, its probably my least favourite piece of Shakespeare that I've studied (and I've studied quite a lot of it, having done both English Lit and Drama up to A2).

As You Like It was great. It's one of the easier plays. My teacher wanted to do Anthony and Cleopatra but he found the question area a bit ugh.

I'm so jealous

I do enjoy reading, one of the main reasons I'm considering Lit!

If you don't mind my asking, what topics did you study for History?

Hey guys

I was going to take History, but I'm not entirely keen on the topics they study at the sixth form I want to go to. I was thinking of taking English Literature instead as I'm pretty good at it naturally and have an affinity for reading and creative writing. However, I don't like linguistic analysis all that much so I'm not sure I'd enjoy it. If it's any help, my sixth form is with AQA for all the subjects I'm considering.

Any advice?

Thank you.