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How do you plan/approach the question in the exam???

I did Inspector Calls for GCSE, so I may be able to help if you're doing the same course. What do you mean, though? Do you already know the exam question??

It's GCSE AQA English literature, no I mean how to approach any question. Like how to structure and how many paragraphs to write, what to include etc

How do you plan/approach the question in the exam???

What worked for me was just bullet points of main ideas (you should make sure you have something substantial to say on all the characters and all the themes that come up), in some order, to stop it getting crazy disorganised, then fleshing things out when I went along. Organise everything in terms of point, evidence (quotes, learn lots of them), explain (what is the author's intention). Also might be useful to organise things by assessment objectives, so maybe assigning things like specific historical context to each of your main points (depends on exam board and what is being assessed in the particular question)
what to include depends on the question. If it is on a character, you can talk about how that character is relevant to the themes and what point Priestley is trying to make with them, if it is on a theme, you can talk about how different characters/sections display that theme and the point behind the theme..

irrelevant but they asked us about eva our year we were all f*cked because everybody was 100% sure we would get asked about mr birling. How fun )))

Just to back up the PEE approach. Here is an example:

Introduction (about 1-3 minutes)
I always like to say J.B Priestley uses *character* of an archetype of XYZ. Or, if it's a theme question, do a little introduction. If you don't want to use the archetypal route, just describe what the character is described as in the stage directions at the start.

P - We get the impression that Gerald is manipulative. .
E - because "(approaching her)" he says "now listen darling"
E - This may imply that he is using his social class in order to manipulate her so that he can get his own way - he doesn't want anybody to find out about why he knows Daisy Renton - and it seems as he thinks he is the more dominant partner in the relationship.

Do as many of these in the time limit.

A summary/conclusion (1-3 minutes)

thank you so much!!! and i didn't know you had to learn the quotes i thought the text would be provided?

How do you plan/approach the question in the exam???

irrelevant but they asked us about eva our year we were all f*cked because everybody was 100% sure we would get asked about mr birling. How fun )))

And yes you have to remember the quotes as there is no text provided.

all 4 texts are provided with AQA (although I think we are the last year where this is the case)

I done aqa English lit last year and I recommend doing "PEEL" paragraphs about the character or topic they ask for. Also, talk about how certain characters represent types of society and criticise characters like Mrs birling. I got an A* in this part of English lit and it really worked

Did that question ages ago in my year 10 EOY mock and wanted to shoot myself, so I feel sorry for you
(birling was in the 2015 paper)
how did it go in the end?