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First, make sure you know all the AOs for your exam board. AQA’s are as follows:

AO1: Read, understand and respond to texts. Students should be able to: maintain a critical style and develop an inf...

At the beginning of Act 1, Sherriff uses comedy as a conversational device. When Osborne enters the dugout for the first time he meets Hardy, another officer, who is in the process of drying his sock by c...

The first and most important thing is to know your texts inside out. Read and reread again the novels, plays and poetry that you are studying for your exam. Don't be afraid to annotate your books, writing...

First thing’s first, let’s take a look at the AQA mark scheme, because that is what your marker will be following when they get your completed paper. The first thing they talk about in their mark scheme i...

You should see context as the foundation of any piece of literature, rather than an assessment objective that you need to fulfil. It is common to force a connection between an analysis of literature and a...