GCSE

I am doing gsce study write now- year 10. I am being told to write notes and study- but they never tell me how or what to do. I don't know how to study for english. Please could you give me answers. I would really appreciate it.

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flowers4algernon

not sure whether you mean english literature or language, but here's what i typically do to study for lit! you should try to find what best works for you, as in what you can remember best and understand the clearest, but try these out: summarising what happened in a chapter/scene of your text, researching context behind the piece (e.g researching poverty in the victorian era if doing a christmas carol, or jacobean/elizabethan era society for shakespeare), a lot of these fit nicely into a mind map but i hate doing those and a list works just fine. you can 'explode' a quotation by annotating it with different connotations e.g techniques shown in the quote and the semiotics of different words, then apply your skills by giving yourself a question and writing your own answer, use sentence starters if you need to. if you're having a difficult time memorising key terms, techniques, or characters in a story, try making flash cards and using those to learn them. there's many different ways to take notes, just google 'different types of note taking', and you can watch videos which are a summary/analysis of whatever you're studying 🙂 i'd also definitely check out the gcse and a level > study help discussion > english and the english helpful threads index on this site for more