how do I revise for my English literature and language for year 10 mocks?

Reply 1

Hey, when I was in year 10 I was thinking the exact same thing, so here are my tips:

English lit:

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memorise quotes, a couple of different ones for each book. Make sure they are applicable to MANY different themes, so you dont need to learn a whole bunch.

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revise content that you can embed (about the author, about society at the time and more.) you can add this into your response and the examiner loves it!

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for poems try to memorise information on 5 poems or so, but less is okay too. Make sure these poems link to a variety of other ones (preferably the ones you havent revised but can recall.)

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make sure to revise structure and methods for everything!

English lang:

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create language/structure methods checklists so you know what to write about.

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look at different resources on things like physics and maths tutor - they are really helpful and have loads of past papers

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create a checklist of the things you arent so good on and work through it (for me its structure and comparison questions)

General:

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create mind maps, magazines or anything else that helps you understand key themes (i do one pagers on characters, including quotes, context and key words to describe them)

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do a LOT of past paper questions, focus on the ones you arent as good at to start off with - you should be able to ask your teacher to mark them!

I hope this helped :smile:

Reply 2

grainy-mead

for literature I recommend making like big a3 mind maps of all the themes e.g. for inspector calls do one big a3 sheet with quote analysis ,character who link with that theme, i hope that helps.

Reply 3

asura20

Original post by grainy-mead

for literature I recommend making like big a3 mind maps of all the themes e.g. for inspector calls do one big a3 sheet with quote analysis ,character who link with that theme, i hope that helps.