Edexcel English Lit NEA Help!!!

Hello!
I'm in Year 13 doing Edexcel English Lit, and I really need help with my NEA. It's due in a few weeks, and I've been so stuck with it because my teachers never gave us any feedback. I'm comparing Regeneration by Pat Barker to 1984 by George Orwell.
I've written some questions below, and any suggestions, advice, or anything, will be really appreciated.
- How do you structure your essay for the NEA?
(I've seen so many well-written essays, but they are all different! What do you need to include for it to be spot on?)
- How would you phrase the question? (Do you need a quote, or anything special to make the NEA 'easier' to write?)
- For each paragraph within the essay, what would a good structure be? How many AO5 quotes do I need to use, AO3, etc.
I've asked my teachers about this too, but they haven't given any sort of feedback or help with this (I know this is independent, but they haven't been helpful at all even with other essays and feedback for them).
Thank you so much everyone!!!

I’m sort of in the same situation. You could use an A05 quote before your question and then centre your essay around it. I’d say to look at the marking grid to see what you need to include. Maybe try some YouTube videos too as people speak about how to structure on there. Point, evidence, explanation, context and link would be good with comparisons throughout. Google scholar/jstor can be helpful. Make sure you link to the question throughout and make your argument clear with comparative points like ‘However’. I’d say AO5 in each paragraph that you can evaluate for each book, but I have heard that people use less. Does your teacher let you send example paragraphs? Also saying the audiences view can also be AO5 I’m pretty sure like Marxist/Feminist/Historical lenses. AO5 from different perspectives or periods. You could read examiner reports or exemplars because it’ll show you what to include. Like using context in your analysis rather than just stating.

Hey, I'm also doing mine atm
Maybe find a quote relating to the topic of your question (it doesn't have to be about the texts themselves, it could be something the author of one of the texts said, or someone else, or a quote from another book) then write something vague like 'in respect to (text 1) and (text 2) how is (topic ) explored'
What I do is often brainstorm aspects of the topic, e.g. if it was emotions then I'd split into 3 different emotions or something
For AO5, you could use literary/biographical/historical as well as critics. Try to find some critics but I don't think you need too many, just engage with them well. If you're struggling to find some, maybe sign up to JSTOR, its free and has loads of archived writings (its just heavy academic stuff but I'm sure you can pick out something)
I'm not so good on structure, sorry, but I'm sure you'll be fine 👍️
Ok I'd better get back to work on mine 😅 Good luck 💕