OCR A2 English Literature Exams - 15th June?

Memorising quotes and criticisms. Making posters of themes and characters.

And then just reading the texts again and reading notes about them.

How are you revising?

Probably memorising quotes for themes/ characters and critics. I am also going to do timed, closed book essay during the holidays to email to my teacher... if I can be bothered lol

What texts are you doing? I am studying Othello and Donne/ Faustus

I am the total opposite! I am fine with Othello, in my last timed essay I got 27/30 but I am really struggling withe Donne and Faustus - we had a closed book mock in class and I got 18/30!!

We have looked at:

Death be not Proud,
O my Black Soul
Batter my heart
This is my play's last scene
Hymn to God my God in my sickness
A hymn to God the father
To his Mistress going to bed
The flea
The sun rising
The good morrow
A Valedication: forbiddiing mourning
The Canonization
A Nocturnal upon St Lucy's Day
To His Mistress Going to Bed

What about you?

Memorising quotes and criticisms. Making posters of themes and characters.

And then just reading the texts again and reading notes about them.

How are you revising?

That's loads! We read the examiners comments from the Jan exams and theyve said that talking about 3 or 4 poems is enough.

We've done:

The Flea
The Sun Rising
Song - go catch a falling star
Sonnet 6
Air and Angels
The Relic

My two comparative texts go really well together. On the practice class essays I've managed to get 28/30 and 27/30.

With Othello, we've only done 1 class essay and I got 22/30. I'm finding it more difficult because we haven't done it in any depth at all. So I know nothing about the context or anything. I'm having to go by on guessing the historical context, which I'm sure is not very specific enough to get a good grade.

How did you get to grips with Othello in such an efficient manner? I'm OCR A2 Othello too and don't know how to revise? how many quotations you gonna learn, under what themes?

i'm also doing Donne & Aphra Behn's "The Rover" for my Comparative.

I need Help on Donne and The Rover!!!? How do I prepare them!?

Historical context is not really as important for Othello as it is for the comparative essay. I would say focus more on referring to different productions and alternative readings. But the main thing is definitely A02!!!!!

28/30?! How? Please help me lol! I am only getting around 22 on average - we are in complete opposite situations!!!!

I'm doing Othello, The Pardoner's tale and Dr Faustus.

Why OCR? Why are you making me compare The Pardoner with Dr Faustus?

I'm a lot more comfortable with Othello right now.

Yes! The first person I have seen on here doing exactly the same texts as me .

I am in exactly the same situation too; no problems with Othello, Faustus on its own is easy enough but I really cannot stand the Pardoner's Tale and having to compare those two is gonna be awful.

Have you found any good internet sources comparing the texts or even anything about the Pardoner? It's the one I am struggling with at the minute. SparkNotes is good for Faustus .

What? I didn't even know this!

What if you've seen it at the Globe?

What are you supposed to say about the DVD?

Yay! Someone doing the same texts as me

I haven't got any sites comparing the two texts, but I agree sparknotes is brilliant for Faustus.

Oh. On the OCR website, I think there is certain themes OCR wants the teacher to cover like Death, pursuit of power etc. I printed it all off, its really useful to find comparisons.

I think that's fine. I really don't know what you have to write about though =/ maybe ...''I watched Othello at the Globe. Brilliant acting.''