What is the most epic way to revise?

Hi guys its the man himself!!!, need advise on revising English paper 1 Language.

Much appreciated

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Having a clear paragraph structure for each question is super important. I used PEAR paragraphs pretty consistently acrossmost questions because they allowed me to get lots of marks pretty consistently. PEAR stands for Point (literally answering thequestion, a topic sentence) Evidence (pick a quote) Analysis (any language and/or structural techniques, depending on whatthe question asks you to comment on) Reader (link your quote to how the reader will likely feel- its doesn’t have to be deep butusing fancyish words like anticipation can make your writing sound less surface level).
Across both English subjects, doing questions and getting feedback from a teacher is the most helpful thing to know how toimprove. If your teacher wont mark your work for whatever reason then you could post in on TSR and ask for someone to markit. I marked lots of answers during year 11 as i found it helpful revision- you could mark other peoples answers to help yourunderstanding of what examiners are looking for. Or if you have a friend in your class who would be willing to swap answersand mark each others that’s also a strong option.
Learning how to annotate texts is extremely important. BBC Bitesize was how i learned how to do this i think but im sure theresloads of videos and articles on how to do this. You need to find a way which works well for you!
For the writing sections, quality over quantity is the key thing you need to focus on. One thing which can help is writing novafiction- stories with only 9 sentences. This forces you to condense your narrative or description. Obviously, in an exam you’llneed to write more than 9 sentences but it’s good practice. Before you start writing, come up with a list of language andstructural features you want to include in your writing and tick them off as you go so you remember to include them throughout.

Come up with a basic story that you can use most of the time and practice applying it to different questions. Quality over quantity is key for creative writing and structure is really important- having a distinct beginning, middle and end of your narrative. Before you start writing note down a list of structural features, language techniques and other stuff you want to include and as you go add stuff in. I found writing nova fiction helpful for revision (stories with only 9 sentences) because you do 3 sentences on the beginning, 3 on the middle and 3 on the end. That way you dont run out of time to do a complete narrative. Writing nova fiction also forces you to use a range of punctuation like semi colons or you simply wouldn’t be able to get everything down into 9 sentences.

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