How can I revise effectively for A Level English Language/Literature?

Firstly, to assure your revision techniques are as effective as they can be, you should discover what type of learner you are. There are four main types of learner: auditory, visual, kinesthetic and reading/writing.

If you fit into auditory, I would suggest reading aloud your notes in order to help solidify them and help you remember important details in exams. You could further voice record yourself reading quotes or poems to listen back to, which will help you to focus on phonetic and lexical choices.

For the visual learner, mind maps and colour are highly striking and memorable. Mind maps, where you can include diagrams/cycles/drawings, will give you the opportunity to see connections and relationships between your own ideas. Colour can be used to group themes, characters and quotes together. 

If you have a kinesthetic style, creating rhymes will enable you to remember specialist terminology that is especially important for the language component of your A level! Role playing scenes from plays and chapters in books is also a good way to not only memorise story lines, but also consider more deeply the characteristics of characters and their relationships.

Reading/writing learner revision is a rather self-explanatory approach. Reading sources, writing up ideas you have learnt in your own words and reading them. The key is to not write too comprehensively as this will prevent you from being able to remember things such as context when you reach exam season. To condense, start with notes, then move onto mind maps and finally, onto cue cards. Cue cards should be brief, containing only key words which will be used as prompts to help trigger further information you have already learnt.

Remember, no matter what sort of learner you are, revision is to go over what you already know - not to teach yourself anything new. Give yourself plenty of time to revise so that you do not feel pressure to rush. You will revise best in calmer situations!