1. What Are Your Exams Literature (75% of your Overall Grade)
A662: Contemporary Drama—A View From the Bridge (45 minutes)
A663: Prose from Different Cultures—Of Mice and Men (45 minutes)
A664: Literary Heritage Prose and Contemporary Poetry—Dr. Jekyll & Mr. Hyde and Carol Ann Duffy Poetry (90 minutes)
Language (60% of your Overall Grade)
A653: Non-Fiction and Media Paper /A680: Information and Ideas (120 minutes)

2. A662: Contemporary Drama—A View From the Bridge (45 minutes)
Impact on Audience
Language/structure/form analysis; use quotes
SPAG (nine Marks)
It’s a play; not a book
Set the scene in your introduction
Answer the question by referring to impact on audience
Question: How does Miller make this such a dramatic and significant conclusion to act 1?‘ Adapted Question: Focusing on audience interest/impact/engagement, how does Miller make this such a dramatic and significant conclusion to act 1? Opening Sentence to a Body Paragraph: Miller makes this a dramatic and significant conclusion to Act One by foreshadowing the play's tragic conclusion, as well who is involved in this tragic conclusion, through Eddie and Marco's actions in this extract.

3. A663: Prose from Different Cultures—Of Mice and Men (45 minutes)
Question: How does Steinbeck make this such a shocking moment in the novel? Adapted Question: Focusing on context, how does Steinbeck make this such a shocking moment in the novel? Opening Sentence to a Body Paragraph: Steinbeck makes this a shocking moment in the novel because it reveals the social hierarchy on the ranch, one that reflects how power at the time period was wielded and used in the time period.
Impact of context
Language/structure/form analysis; use quotes
Impact on reader
Set the scene in your introduction
Answer the question by referring to the impact of context

4. A664: Literary Heritage Prose and Contemporary Poetry—Dr. Jekyll & Mr
A664: Literary Heritage Prose and Contemporary Poetry—Dr. Jekyll & Mr. Hyde and Carol Ann Duffy Poetry (90 minutes)
DR.J & Mr. H
Theme/character/plot
Language/structure/form analysis; use quotes
Impact on reader
No context
Set the scene in your introduction
Answer the question by having a focal point of one of the above areas
Follow the same as you have seen
Poetry
Theme
Language/Structure/Form Analysis; use quotes
Impact on reader
Answer the question by saying something interesting about the theme.
Less important than DR.J & Mr. H
Follow the same as you have seen

5. Language Paper 60% of GCSE 32/22 Two Sections—Reading and Writing
Reading Skills---Develop These
Writing Skills (Content and SPAG/Varying Sentence Structures)

6. Reading Section Reading Non-fiction at home
Using the reading skills in all of your subject; use them now
4P2S Reading Mnemonic Device

7. 4P2S Purpose—Reading the question. Identity what you are reading for?
Prior Knowledge—Read the title. Make list/mind map about the topic…What do you know about it? This should take you two minutes.
Preview—Look at the title, images, bold/italic texts, headings, information about the author. Skim read these items. Make annotations about what they reveal to you.
Predict—Based on what you have done so far, write a few predictions about you think the article will be about, who its target readers are and what it’s purpose is. You should continue to do this throughout your reading process.
Small Chunks—For each paragraph you read, write a small summary beside it; paraphrase what it is about.
Strategies—Use other strategies to help your understanding (rereading, smaller chunks, figuring out key words based upon their context, rereading the conclusion and introduction, drawings, flow chart)

8. Managing Your Time
DON’T start the reading questions until you are confident that you have:-
Read the passage to the end
Formed a view of what it is about
Considered some of the ways the writer has tried to communicate his/her point of view.

9. Reading Section Tips…Time Management
It is absolutely critical that you read each passage very thoroughly before you start to consider the questions and this may mean that you spend rather longer on the reading than the writing.
If you do: DON’T WORRY!
Most candidates can produce excellent written work in less than an hour: and most need more than an hour to read.

10. Reading Section
Question 1—concise, roughly half a page, own words, thematic grouping. NO ANALYSIS.
Question 2 and 3—analysis, focus on the question, quotes, use critical terminology, CONTENT, STRUCTURE, TONE, PRESENTATION, LANGUAGE, don’t feature spot, EXPLAIN RELEVANCE , discuss the relationship of the above areas.
Q2 and Q3—confident understanding of text and task

11. Writing Important introductory points:-
DO plan your work carefully! Take five minutes at least to work out WHAT you are going to say and HOW you are going to say it.
DON’T write too much! If you are going onto more than three sides ask yourself why!
Remember that QUALITY is all important and that QUANTITY need only be enough to show what you can do at your best.
Accurate spelling, punctuation and sentence structure matter.
Have a convincing HOOK…use the rhetorical devices throughout