If you fail English then it will feel big on results day, but then you'll go and talk to your head of sixth form and they may tell you that if you work hard and let them monitor your prpgress you can do your chosen options, or they may say that you have to take different subjects. But at the end of the day, if you then retake English and get a 5 you could probably restart the year the year after and take the subjects that you want. But instead of thinking about that, go and do some English reivison... choose a newspaper article or the first page of a book and annotate it. Here is a way of planning and English language essay:
1. Read through and write on the side how I'm feeling/ expecting about the text as I go through. Do I expect a character to die? DO I think a romance will develope? Do I think the author likes the topic they're talking about?
2. Very simply, what is the author saying about their topic? Do they like it? Do they think that it's safe? Are they confused? Excited? Angry?
3. Highlight all the words in the extract that support your opinion. Last year the AQA Eng lang paper was on surfboards, and one of the authors described a surfboard as like a 'coffin lid' so I could highlight that to show that the author didn't think that these surfboards were safe.
4. Write your paragraphs! The 3 key things to remember are:
A) that you need to name the techniques or at least word types being used, e.g. similie, repetition, adjective, metaphor.
B) You need to keep comparing between the two texts, saying that 'therefore, unlike author A, author B believes that...' , 'like author B, AUthor A suggests...' etc.
C) You cannot really go too far as long as you use evidence. If you have a quote with a colour name in, mention the stereotypes surrounding that colour and how that could impact the meaning of the text (even if you don't think it does), if there's a verb, say what that kind of action suggests- joy? Sadness? Anger? Passivity? Just make sure that you don't say anything without relating it to a quote.
You can revise by analysing almost any text. And remember that the creative writing aspect of the exam is quite large, so practice that too.
Good luck!