AS Level English Literature difficulties

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Hi guys, im in year 12 at the moment and I picked AS level history, business and English literature. I’ve recently gotten back my mock results and i’ve been graded a C- which worries me as my last grade too was a C. I seriously do not know how to improve anymore- unfortunately my teacher is no help. I never took literature before until this year and I am unaware of how I should be structuring essays for Paper 1 and 2. Please help with advices if any of you guys have encountered this experience. Thank you so much!

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TSR Jessica

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Sorry you've not had any responses about this. :frown:

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Here's a link to our subject forum which should help get you more responses if you post there. :redface:

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MillieeM2

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Exemplars can be really helpful and YouTube in essay structure

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Kingston Eve

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by Mnsiaowl

Hi guys, im in year 12 at the moment and I picked AS level history, business and English literature. I’ve recently gotten back my mock results and i’ve been graded a C- which worries me as my last grade too was a C. I seriously do not know how to improve anymore- unfortunately my teacher is no help. I never took literature before until this year and I am unaware of how I should be structuring essays for Paper 1 and 2. Please help with advices if any of you guys have encountered this experience. Thank you so much!

Hey @Mnsiaowl,

I'm sorry to hear you're having difficulties with English Literature. To improve, I'd recommend looking at some past paper questions/mark schemes to try and find out where you're primarily dropping marks; are you familiar with your texts/poems and including necessary quotes to support your responses? Are you identifying relevant literary techniques and contexts within your answers?

One good way to ensure your essay paragraphs are meeting the assessment objectives is to use the PEEL technique - each paragraph should make a Point (P), provide some Evidence (E), offer an Explanation for provided evidence (E) and finally Link back to the question (L). Different schools/colleges will follow different acronyms, but using the PEEL technique is an easy way to keep your answers on track and should in time hopefully improve your grade.

Hope this was helpful and best of luck your AS-Levels!
Eve (Kingston Rep).

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