Questions or revision help

Now that you are on exam leave, I will only be seeing you for seminars. So if you have any questions or advice on revision in between the times that I see you, feel free to post a question on the wall below. I’ll post a reply as soon as possible.

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The links to the right are a must for your revision. BBC Bitesize offer excellent revision pages on all aspects of your exams. You should definitely be using their site to revise for your different papers.

The other link is for Podcast Revison. They offer free downloadable podcasts covering every section of your papers, including all of the poems for both Literature and Language papers, as well as some great podcasts on Of Mice and Men.

I can’t emphasis enough how useful these will be if you want to be successful.

Also, to the right of that is a countdown timer showing how much revision time you have left until your first exam (the Literature paper on 25th May). Not that I want to put any extra pressure on you, but… there really is very little time left! You should be revising regularly and practising past papers right now!

Higher Literature Papers for practising responses

Some Literature Papers for you – these are all HIGHER PAPERS – make sure you practise with these ONLY IF YOU HAVE ‘HIGHER’ ON YOUR EXAM TIMETABLE!

Time yourself responding to the questions – 1 and 45 minutes to complete the whole paper. You should be spending about 1 hour on Section A and 45 minutes on Section B.

Be warned, the named poems have changed since these papers so these examples may ask about a poem you don’t know so well. Just have a go at it anyway or select a question that includes poems that you do know well enough.

The key poems for the 2010 HIGHER exam

Carol Ann Duffy

• Anne Hathaway
• Before You Were Mine
• Havisham
• Stealing

Simon Armitage

• Mother, Any Distance
• Homecoming
• Kid
• Hitcher

Pre – 1914

• Sonnet 130 (William Shakespeare)
• My Last Duchess (Robert Browning)
• On My First Sonne (Ben Jonson)
• The Laboratory (Robert Browning)

Once more, if you would like me to mark your responses – please bring them to me and I will give you a grade and show you what you could do to improve.

You can enlarge the paper using the magnifier, download the paper to your computer or print it directly from this screen. Just use the icons at the bottom of the paper.

HIGHER LITERATURE PAPER – May 06

HIGHER LITERATURE PAPER – May 07

HIGHER LITERATURE PAPER – May 08

Good luck!

Foundation Literature Papers for practising responses

Some Literature Papers for you – these are all FOUNDATION PAPERS – make sure you practise with these ONLY IF YOU HAVE ‘FOUNDATION’ ON YOUR EXAM TIMETABLE!

Time yourself responding to the questions – 1 and 45 minutes to complete the whole paper. You should be spending about 1 hour on Section A and 45 minutes on Section B.

Be warned, the named poems have changed since these papers so these examples may ask about a poem you don’t know so well. Just have a go at it anyway or select a question that includes poems that you do know well enough.

The key poems for the 2010 FOUNDATION exam

Carol Ann Duffy

• Salome
• Elvis’s Twin Sister
• Havisham
• Stealing

Simon Armitage

• My Father Thought It
• November
• Kid
• Hitcher

Pre – 1914

• The Man He Killed (Thomas Hardy)
• Song of the Old Mother (William Butler Yeats)
• On My First Sonne (Ben Jonson)
• The Laboratory (Robert Browning)

Once more, if you would like me to mark your responses – please bring them to me and I will give you a grade and show you what you could do to improve.

You can enlarge the paper using the magnifier, download the paper to your computer or print it directly from this screen. Just use the icons at the bottom of the paper.

FOUNDATION LITERATURE PAPER – May 06

FOUNDATION LITERATURE PAPER – May 07

FOUNDATION LITERATURE PAPER – May 08

Good luck!

Higher Paper 2 for practising responses

Some Paper 2s for you – these are all HIGHER PAPERS – make sure you practise with these ONLY IF YOU HAVE ‘HIGHER’ ON YOUR EXAM TIMETABLE!

Time yourself responding to the questions – 1 and 30 minutes to complete the whole paper. You should be spending about 45 minutes on Section A and 45 minutes on Section B.

Again, if you would like me to mark your responses – please bring them to me and I will give you a grade and show you what you could do to improve.

You can enlarge the paper using the magnifier, download the paper to your computer or print it directly from this screen. Just use the icons at the bottom of the paper.

HIGHER PAPER 2 – June 06

HIGHER PAPER 2 – November 06

HIGHER PAPER 2 – June 07

HIGHER PAPER 2 – November 07

HIGHER PAPER 2 – June 08

HIGHER PAPER 2 – November 08

Good luck!

Foundation Paper 2 for practising responses

Some Paper 2s for you – these are all FOUNDATION PAPERS – make sure you practise with these ONLY IF YOU HAVE ‘FOUNDATION’ ON YOUR EXAM TIMETABLE!

Time yourself responding to the questions – 1 and 30 minutes to complete the whole paper. You should be spending about 45 minutes on Section A and 45 minutes on Section B.

Again, if you would like me to mark your responses – please bring them to me and I will give you a grade and show you what you could do to improve.

You can enlarge the paper using the magnifier, download the paper to your computer or print it directly from this screen. Just use the icons at the bottom of the paper.

FOUNDATION PAPER 2 – June 06

FOUNDATION PAPER 2 – November 2006

FOUNDATION PAPER 2 – June 2007

FOUNDATION PAPER 2 – November 2007

FOUNDATION PAPER 2 – June 2008

FOUNDATION PAPER 2 – November 2008

Good luck!

Foundation and Higher Paper 1 for practising responses

Here is a Paper 1 for you to practise with. There is one Foundation Paper 1 and one Higher Paper 1. MAKE SURE THAT YOU SELECT THE CORRECT ONE. Check your exam timetable to confirm that you are sitting either Foundation or Higher.

Time yourself responding to the questions – 1 and 45 minutes to complete the whole paper. You should be spending about one hour on Section A and 45 minutes on Section B.

If you would like me to mark your responses – please bring them to me and I will give you a grade and show you what you could do to improve.

You can enlarge the paper using the magnifier, download the paper to your computer or print it directly from this screen. Just use the icons at the bottom of the paper.

Look out for some more Papers later on…

FOUNDATION PAPER 1

HIGHER PAPER 1

“You can’t revise for English”

Or so people seem to think. Yet it would be impossible to get a C grade or above without revising. So if you think you can’t revise for English, perhaps you should take a look at this handy revision guide that Mrs Nicholas has put together.

Still stuck for where else to go for revision?

Surely not?

Poems from Different Cultures video study guides

Here are some absolutely brilliant video study guides I found on YouTube, that have been created an uploaded by a teacher in Oxfordshire. I think these are a fantastic resource! These are the few that have been made for some of the poems from Cluster One of the Poems from Different Cultures in your AQA Anthology, which you have studied for Paper 2. Sadly, there isn’t one for ‘Night of the Scorpion’ by Nissim Ezekiel, but the rest of Cluster One are here.

A great revision tool – use them!

‘Limbo’ by Edward Kamau Brathwaite

‘Nothing’s Changed’ by Tatamkhulu Afrika

‘Island Man’ by Grace Nichols

‘Blessing’ by Imtiaz Dharker

‘Two Scavengers…’ by Lawrence Ferlinghetti

‘Vultures’ by Chinua Achebe

‘What Were They Like?’ by Denise Levertov
Part 1

Part 2