Year 11 Revision strategies

To all students. It is vital that you can identify your gaps in learning. Look at the feedback and your AO marks. Do NOT run away from the things that you struggle with. Instead, face them, practise them and I guarantee that you will improve your performance. You must focus and stay focused until the G.C.S.E exams are over. Study and rest. Study and rest. Study and rest…the rest can wait!

Literature- R&J, ACC and AICS Read the texts in one sitting. Download the mark schemes for Literature and assess your work. Select extracts at random from the texts and analyse them for A02. Create exam questions from these extracts and plan/write an essay. Create developed essay plans for character and theme. Practise writing paragraphs that evenly cover the AOs. Prep yourself on the context of each text (AO3).

Poetry Anthology Ensure that ALL poems are fully annotated across all the AOs. Download the mark schemes for poetry Choose a poem, create questions based on power and conflict and write a comparison essay. Print off the context grid (AO2) and make sure that you know the background to each poem.

Unseen poetry Download the mark scheme. Access poems that you do not know and practise annotating them to AO1 and AO2. Create questions based on the poem and write an essay (AO1 &AO2). Locate other poems to practise your comparison (AO2 only).

Language, component one. Download past papers and the mark schemes. Practise past papers. Self/peer assess or ask me! Perfect a short story that you can adapt for your exam. Find extracts of fiction writing and create questions based on the wording we have covered in class. ‘What impression…’ Analyse… Select/List, compare. Ensure that these questions cover the three Language AOs. Remember, you cannot be asked a compare question on component one as there is only one extract!

Language, component two. Download past papers and the mark schemes. Practise past papers. Self/peer assess or ask me! Find extracts of 19th century and 21st century non-fiction writing and create questions based on the wording we have covered in class. ‘What impression…’ Analyse… Select/List, compare. Ensure that these questions cover the four Language AOs. Make sure that you know the format of each transactional writing task. Create tasks (see me for help) and write the report/formal letter/informal letter/article/speech or leaflet. Assess it o the mark scheme.

SPAG. To score highly on both the Language and Literature papers, you must… Be secure in your sentence construction. Be able to vary your sentences for effect. get the basics in- sentences must be punctuated correctly. use a range of punctuation. Full stops and commas are NOT enough. spell accurately. use ambitious vocabulary.