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Thanks so much for all ur replies, I have lots of the cgp books for all subjects but lots of people dotn recommend doing the mesmerising one, did you do it? Did it work for you and how can I get started on planning them? Thanks

Do you have any recommendations on where to find past papers and I know for science and maths they can be easily marked but for English and geography I never know how to mark them myself but lack enough confidence to ask my teachers are they usually take the longest to mark papers compared to every other subject, it’s also one where I feel they don’t teach as well

Also if I was to create a story or description to memorise it how would I go about starting it?

Also if I was to create a story or description to memorise it how would I go about starting it?

the way i like to memorise things is to think of the number of things i need to recall. for example if i want to remember “apples, bananas, pears and oranges” i remember it as 4 items and your brain naturally fills the slots. writing things over and over but in weird ways also helps. i may write one thing sideways or upside down so when im thinking back it sticks out in my memory as it was written weirdly. also writing in weird places helps too.

i did the story
and to answer your other question i just wrote loads of stories and got my teacher/friends/random ppl on tsr and reddit to mark them and improved them based on everyones feedback and then just memorised the one i liked most
u can find prompts in past exams
and i can mark your stories for you if youd like!

acronyms also are really useful. i used chat gpt and submitted my list and ask it for an acronym. if the acronym it gives you isn’t too complex you ask it to simplify it too

i’m not sure if your exam is structured the same way as i don’t know you exam board but for ours we have to do a transformative text and then the descriptive text. what i recommend is at the start of the exam, immediately turn to the descriptive and pick a prompt so as you write your first text you may think of ideas of what to write in your description. in the exam you get a spare piece of paper so that’s where you would write your ideas.

one of the most important things in your english texts is paragraphs. you lose so many marks in the “technique” category if you don’t include paragraphs. in my exam all of my paragraphs were about 3-6 lines, which isn’t long at all but will ensure you don’t lose marks. you want to write down the five sense

and use at 2-3 to describe each thing in your text. for example you may use taste and smell to describe the air and then touch and sight to describe a tree. make sure by the end of the exam you have used all of them a fair amount. you’ll gain marks for using things like metaphors, alliteration, rule of three, onomatopoeia, similes etc

so on top of using 2-3 sense i also use one technique. for my exam we had to write about the sun setting in a place of our choice so every time i referenced the sun i wouldn’t call it the sun i’d call it for example: ‘the golden ball’, ‘the fiery entity’, ‘the red flame’ etc. it’s things like that, that set you apart from others.

also, if you ever do some descriptive writing i’m happy to look at it for you if you’d like. it’s easy to drift into narrative if there is movement in your text. so instead of saying “i walked into the kitchen” you could say “the deteriorating wooden floor boards stretched to the kitchen where…” or “across the living, the kitchen…”

an important thing to note is you don’t want to just jump into another place without some sort of transition; don’t describe one place then immediately jump to another. you want to avoid using personal pronouns, so instead of “i smelt” you could say “a [descriptive word] scent filled the air, it smelt…” you can then expand on that and say for example

“it was suffocating”. something like that would get you more marks. going deep is also a good way to gain marks. in my exam i referred to the grass as a “sea of grass” then went deeper on that description and used a metaphor to describe the grass as pirates at sea, linking the two descriptions. i also referred to the sun as a “golden ball” then

i described the trees growing towards the sun as thieves trying to steal the sun; linking ‘gold’en ball and thieves. it’s those extra thoughts and describing things deeper which gets you marks. rather than just describing something in one way on a surface level then moving on, i went deeper on that description or described something else then linked them

that’s pretty much all i can think of right now. let me know if you need help with anything else!

You're honestly the best thank you with all your responses. At the moment, I'm just doing some work I need to hand in before I go back to school then I'll get started and post it on here for you to read when you have time? The way you linked everything ran so smoothly it was very well thought out. I'm quite good at memorising things so once I've got a top marks answer down I think I'll be set! do you have any tips for link poems to each other. Also any tips on how to remember quotes. Btw I do AQA exam boards. Did you take geography? Also did you take a language?