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Year 11

English Exam Revision Tips 2009

Which papers am I sitting?

• Paper 1 • Paper 2 • Literature • All exams allow texts but NO annotations. Blank copies will be provided.

Paper 1

• 1 hour 45 minutes • Section A – Reading unseen non-fiction and media texts (1 hour) • Section B – writing to argue, persuade or advise (45 minutes)

Paper 1 – Section A

• The writing tasks of Section B will usually be based on the theme of Section A • Section A will test your ability to: – Use quotations to support your answers – Distinguish between fact and opinion – Follow an argument and read between the lines – Compare texts – Analyse the writers’ use of language & the effects they create – Analyse the presentation of media texts – Comment on the way language varies and changes = 27 marks To revise – get some articles and analyse them Remember to compare and contrast them too

Paper 1 – Section B

Section B will test your ability to: – Write an appropriate text for the intended

audience

– Write an appropriate text for the intended interesting • Marked out of 18 • Marked out of 9

purpose

– Use a variety of language features to make your writing – Use accurate grammar, spelling and punctuation = 27 marks To revise – practise writing responses to adverts, letters of protest, speeches about controversial issues

Paper 2

• 1 hour 30 minutes • Section A – Poetry from Different Cultures (45 minutes) • Section B – Writing to inform, explain or describe (45 minutes)

Paper 2 – Section A

• Two questions – one on Cluster 1 and one on Cluster 2

Tips:

• Any poem of the eight can be the named poem • Only compare to ONE other • Use the ‘key word’ of the question in every paragraph of your essay • You are being tested on your ability to: – Use quotations to support your points – Compare the poems (compare the themes but more importantly compare the language, structure & form) – Analyse the language, structure & form of the poems To revise - Think about which language features allow you to compare the poems, don’t just focus on themes

Paper 2 - Section B

Section B will test your ability to: – Write an appropriate text for the intended

audience

– Write an appropriate text for the intended writing interesting • Marked out of 18 • Marked out of 9

purpose

– Use a variety of language features to make your – Use accurate grammar, spelling and punctuation = 27 marks To revise – try writing interesting descriptions of boring objects or imaginary situations

The Literature Paper

• Worth 70% of GCSE • Section A – Novel (45 minutes) = 27 marks • Section B – Poetry (1 hour) = 36 marks • Quality of writing = 3 marks

Literature Novel

• Question styles: – Close reading of a passage and how it relates to novel as a whole – A theme based question – A character based question – A setting based question – A discursive question • (how far do you agree?) • • • To revise – Re-read the novel over Easter pick out key quotations from the novel and analyse them in lots of depth choose random passages from the novel and think of all the things you could say about them

Literature Poetry

• You must use two poems from the pre 1914 poetry bank • You usually get a choice of three questions • Question styles: – Named poem + compare to three others – Pick two from List A + two from List B – Answer a)

then

answer b) (two mini-essays)

Example

• • •

Named poem:

– Compare how women are represented in

four

• Compare ‘Mother, any distance’ with

one

pre-1914 poems poems. poem by Duffy and

two

List of poems:

– Compare how death is presented in My Last Duchess

four

poems.

• Choose two poems from List A and two from List B • LIST A – Havisham/ Stealing/ Hitcher/ November • LIST B – On My first Sonne/ The Laboratory/ The Man He Killed/

Two mini-essays:

– Answer BOTH parts a) and b) • a) Compare how memories are represented in ‘Before You Were Mine’ by Duffy and ‘Homecoming’ by Armitage • b) Compare how attitudes to love are presented in