Other than re-reading the texts, how do I revise for the set texts portion of my English Literature exams?

For the set texts portion of your exam what you really want to be doing is making sure that you know the key themes and ideas in your set texts, how these themes do or do not change throughout the text, and how this relates to the main characters. To do this you want to be making connections between the themes and the characters, and find evidence to support this, which will help you both revise the content of the texts and revise your exam technique. For example, you could do a mind map (though if mind maps aren’t your style of revision then we can talk about lots of different ways you can do this!) of each of the main characters in the text, and consider which themes are particularly relevant to these characters, finding two or three quotes to justify this. You also may want to outline how each character develops throughout the text - does how they are portrayed change much and what does this tell us about the major themes in the text? Again, you want to find quotes to justify this - two or three which show the changes to the character. For example, with Romeo and Juliet you might want a quote from the start that presents Lord Capulet as a loving, supporting father, one from the middle as he becomes more tyrannical, and one from the end as he mourns Juliet. You then want one or two sentences briefly explaining what you think this tells us about Shakespeare’s portrayal of family, conflict and/or fatherhood, using evidence from the quotes.Lastly, one really important thing you can do is practice writing exam responses using mock/past papers. The more you practice the exam, the more comfortable you're going to feel in the exam itself and the easier you're going to find it to plan and write your essays. This is because it helps you become used to adapting the content you know and your interpretations of that content to fit different questions. Ultimately, it means that you've done most of the work before you even enter the exam hall, and are accustomed to writing about your set texts in the style of an exam essay.