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ENGLISH LANGUAGE -
IMPROVING ANALYSIS:
● ALLOCATE TIME FOR EACH QUESTION
● DON’T USE FIXED STRUCTURES LIKE ‘PEE’ (POINT, EXAMPLE, EVIDENCE)
● THINGS TO FOCUS ON:
● LEXICAL FIELDS
● SYMBOLIC MEANING
● LITERAL MEANING
● WORDS
● CONNOTATIONS
● LANGUAGE DEVICES
● MEANING OF WORDS
● HIGHLIGHT A LANGUAGE DEVICE IN EACH PARAGRAPH (LANGUAGE DEVICES =
MARKS), IF YOU CAN’T FOCUS ON THE DEEPER MEANING OF THE WORDS
● FIRST READ ALL OF THE QUESTIONS ON THE QUESTION PAPER SO YOU KNOW
WHAT TO LOOK FOR IN THE EXTRACT
● MAKE QUICK ANNOTATIONS NOT TO WASTE TIME
MASTER YOUR PARAGRAPHS:
● LOOK UP PAPER EXEMPLAR ANSWERS/ANSWERS VIDEOS TO COMPARE YOUR
WRITING ANSWERS TO SEE WHAT YOUR ESSAYS ARE MISSING
● WRITE ESSAY QUESTIONS FOR YOUR TEACHER TO MARK EVERY WEEK (SAVE
THESE ESSAYS)
● LOOK AT THE EXAMINER REPORTS FROM PAST PAPERS/YEARS TO SEE WHAT
PEOPLE DID RIGHT AND WRONG
● WHEN DOING A PAST PAPER, DO IT WITHOUT LOOKING AT ANY RESOURCES
MRS EVERITT’S ADVICE:
GENERAL ESSAYS -
● Understand more complex ideas about poems (have a good understanding)
● Talk about/through your ideas before writing them down (YOU WORK BETTER WHEN
YOU DO)
● Be specific about the way you analyse
● Don’t start with a technique - start with a point that answers the question
● Talk about a quote that demonstrates one of the topics of the poem (and derive multiple
interpretations of it)
Example from the poem ‘Still I rise’:
ENGLISH LANGUAGE -
IMPROVING ANALYSIS:
● ALLOCATE TIME FOR EACH QUESTION
● DON’T USE FIXED STRUCTURES LIKE ‘PEE’ (POINT, EXAMPLE, EVIDENCE)
● THINGS TO FOCUS ON:
● LEXICAL FIELDS
● SYMBOLIC MEANING
● LITERAL MEANING
● WORDS
● CONNOTATIONS
● LANGUAGE DEVICES
● MEANING OF WORDS
● HIGHLIGHT A LANGUAGE DEVICE IN EACH PARAGRAPH (LANGUAGE DEVICES =
MARKS), IF YOU CAN’T FOCUS ON THE DEEPER MEANING OF THE WORDS
● FIRST READ ALL OF THE QUESTIONS ON THE QUESTION PAPER SO YOU KNOW
WHAT TO LOOK FOR IN THE EXTRACT
● MAKE QUICK ANNOTATIONS NOT TO WASTE TIME
MASTER YOUR PARAGRAPHS:
● LOOK UP PAPER EXEMPLAR ANSWERS/ANSWERS VIDEOS TO COMPARE YOUR
WRITING ANSWERS TO SEE WHAT YOUR ESSAYS ARE MISSING
● WRITE ESSAY QUESTIONS FOR YOUR TEACHER TO MARK EVERY WEEK (SAVE
THESE ESSAYS)
● LOOK AT THE EXAMINER REPORTS FROM PAST PAPERS/YEARS TO SEE WHAT
PEOPLE DID RIGHT AND WRONG
● WHEN DOING A PAST PAPER, DO IT WITHOUT LOOKING AT ANY RESOURCES
MRS EVERITT’S ADVICE:
GENERAL ESSAYS -
● Understand more complex ideas about poems (have a good understanding)
● Talk about/through your ideas before writing them down (YOU WORK BETTER WHEN
YOU DO)
● Be specific about the way you analyse
● Don’t start with a technique - start with a point that answers the question
● Talk about a quote that demonstrates one of the topics of the poem (and derive multiple
interpretations of it)
Example from the poem ‘Still I rise’:
