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Close reading! The easiest and most straight forward way to improve your English grade is to get to grips with analysis. With both GCSE and A Level, the fastest way to climb the marking criteria is showin...

The best way to keep an essay structured is to do a rough plan before you start writing. Spend about 5-10 minutes on it (or less if the exam isn't generous with time) in order to collect and organise your...

It can be argued that Bronte depicts religion as a force potent enough to deprive mankind of humanity. This is perhaps most apparent in the case of St John Rivers, who is shown to reject his wild love for...

At A-Level, examiners want you to be able to use your quotation as a springboard for critical and contextual discussion. For this reason, an effective strategy when memorising quotations is to pair each o...

Your introduction should always be a few sentences long, and should address the question directly. A good example of a question is 'How does Shakespeare present the theme of ambition in Macbeth?'Fo...