Exam Preparation
The aim of these pages is to equip you with the skills necessary for you to reach your potential in English. Within each of the three sections- Paper 1, Paper 2 and Literature there are two sections for you to choose from:
Top tips and reminders of
the skills you have learnt in class
Examples of question
papers to test your skills
In the exams it is important to remember to plan your response to questions- time will be spent in English lessons showing you how best to do this. Planned responses always score higher marks as your writing will be more structured. Once you start writing your answer remember to look back at your plan- you wrote it so follow it!
At the end of the exam try to take a few minutes to read over your work and make sure your answers make sense. Again time will be given in English lessons to ensuring you understand what information you should include in your answers in each of the different sections.
This part of your GCSE is worth 30% of your English Language grade and includes 2 sections- Section A is a response to an unseen media piece and Section B is the writing to argue, persuade or advise questions.
The second paper is worth a further 30% of your Language grade and features another two sections- Section A is a question on the poems from other cultures and Section B is the inform, explain or describe question.
This paper makes up 70% of your grade for Literature and is in 2 sections- Section A is a question on your exam novel (Lord of the Flies, Catcher in the Rye, Heroes or Of Mice and Men) and Section B is a question on the remaining poems (Clarke/Heaney Duffy/Armitage and Pre-1914)
