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English literature alevel revision

Any tips on revising English literature, especially the Shakespeare (my text is othello)? Also any tips on increasing words per minute in exam?
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Here are a list of revision activities my teachers gave us !!

Flash cards - create flashcards for each of your Literature texts. Aim for cards which cover key characters and themes which include key quotations, relevant AO5 and AO3 that the theme or character relates to.

Knowledge Dumps - use a plain sheet of paper, in one colour, write down everything you can remember about the character or theme. In a second colour, use your books to fill in any information that you missed out.

Quick fire planning - past papers to plan out answers, thinking about the quotations, analysis and context that you would use and how you would structure your answer. Give yourself a time limit to test where your strengths and weaknesses are.

Practise your analysis but annotating extracts deciding on what you would talk about within a paragraph.

Watch revision videos on Youtube - Mr Bruff is really helpful!

Watch Massolit videos and make notes - you can use these for AO5 critical quotations too.

Listen to Revise English Lit podcasts from Seneca

Complete past papers using the AQA website

Ensure that you have AO5 for each of the texts

Revise subject terminology - make sure you can recognise specific techniques, especially poetic techniques. Don't forget to revise structure!
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Original post by sadrien
Here are a list of revision activities my teachers gave us !!

Flash cards - create flashcards for each of your Literature texts. Aim for cards which cover key characters and themes which include key quotations, relevant AO5 and AO3 that the theme or character relates to.

Knowledge Dumps - use a plain sheet of paper, in one colour, write down everything you can remember about the character or theme. In a second colour, use your books to fill in any information that you missed out.

Quick fire planning - past papers to plan out answers, thinking about the quotations, analysis and context that you would use and how you would structure your answer. Give yourself a time limit to test where your strengths and weaknesses are.

Practise your analysis but annotating extracts deciding on what you would talk about within a paragraph.

Watch revision videos on Youtube - Mr Bruff is really helpful!

Watch Massolit videos and make notes - you can use these for AO5 critical quotations too.

Listen to Revise English Lit podcasts from Seneca

Complete past papers using the AQA website

Ensure that you have AO5 for each of the texts

Revise subject terminology - make sure you can recognise specific techniques, especially poetic techniques. Don't forget to revise structure!

Thank you so much! I will definitely try a few of these 😁

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