Cgp english

Hi, should I buy the CGP english literature and language textbooks? Howver, I have heard that it is not good and for literature, it does not go into detail to get the grade 9. Do you think if I should use PMT and YouTube? THANKS

PMT and youtube will get you to a good analysis/skills point. I don't really recommend getting the combined english lit + lang textbooks, because they are quite simplistic - I know this because I had a flick through it at a whsmith store and one of my friends bought the book.

I recommend getting an individual revision guide for the texts you're doing for english lit as those go into more detail into themes, characters + analysis.

For english language, I've found the cgp english lang revision guide quite helpful as it goes into depth in each of the different questions and how to tackle them - however, it isn't an absolute must, because youtube and online websites like mme revise cover it pretty well.

what is an individual revision guide? where do i get that?

Basically the best ones are either cgp, like for example look at this link to see the text guide:

https://www.cgpbooks.co.uk/secondary-books/gcse/english/text-guides-and-plays/eti45-gcse-english-text-guide-an-inspector

Or york notes:

https://www.amazon.co.uk/Inspector-Calls-York-Notes-GCSE/dp/1447982169

The cgp ones are quite simplistic but they help you understand the texts a lot better, however york notes go more in depth and have different analysis points.

Hi, I am thinking of not buying the text books because I feel like I am not going to use them. Do you believe if PMT is good? I heard from my friends that it is better than textbooks (I have seen the sample of the textbooks and it seems like it doesn't give enough detail)