how I revised for A Level English Literature | getting an A*, advice, revision methods

[@bria4776]

i’m on C/D and i need a B i don’t know how ima do this

[@Salem-yl7bs]

Same😭

[@lumbi.x1628]

I feel you cause literally same😭

[@rosenmoons]

im on a C and need an A 😭

[@sple5023]

I got a D somehow on my last mock exam, I put so much time and effort into to it so it was frustrating, but progress is progress as I got an E the time before that. Having said this... I need an A for the uni course i want to do...

[@carrot357]

Sameee I'm still on a C 😭

[@auiren]

thank you im trying to listen to the messages left behind me from elders (anyone who finished a levels) since im in year 12 and starting now feels like it helps so much right now

[@marguerite_hua]

best of luck!! it's good you're starting early :))

[@robindavda8967]

thank you I NEED this. I need to get my B to an A for Warwick and I don't know where to start with merchant's tale. I'll try the mindmap technique and the context research ideas.

[@marguerite_hua]

aw no worries! with merchant's tale, don't worry about trying to memorise whole lines, just remember certain words or phrases that stand out, like i remember "hooly boond" and stuff like that 🤣 and just embed those quotes into your sentences, brief knowledge about chaucer's other famous tales is beneficial, i remember i referenced the wife of bath's tale in my essays for eg

[@robindavda8967]

​@@marguerite_hua thank you that's really useful

[@d3rinsola]

This genuinely helped me. I am also sitting an OCR English lit exam in May and June. I’m doing Richard III, Rossetti Poems, A Handmaid’s Tale and 1984. I am struggling so bad and ironically enough I want to get focused mid-April too. If you could please elaborate on the revision plan because I have no idea where to start. I took notes of your tips and plan to make it happen, because I get D’s, E’s and C’s, I really want a B and I’ve been so stressed thinking my life is over because I can’t memorise anything.

[@marguerite_hua]

hey!! okay so on your first day, dedicate that to sorting out what you need to go over with each text, for each text ask urself these questions: do u need to reread a text? do you need to memorise quotes for specific themes? do you need to find critic quotes for this text? make rough notes of ur answers to these questions, and then on the next day, just focus on one text and revise that, and the revision depends on what you realised you needed to do for it on the first day. so for coriolanus i spent the first day reading it a few times, picking out key quotes i'd remember and listing these on a google doc, then the next day i would sort these quotes into themes so that i would remember them better, so that it's not just a long list, so that it's actually in a logical group, you have to be v specific in your plan so that future you has less work to do in tryna figure out what you meant by this!!

[@marguerite_hua]

once i was done w coriolanus, then i would start revising another text and repeat the same process, the best thing is to focus on one text at a time, if you want to pm me, message me on insta! it's marguerite.pan

[@d3rinsola]

@@marguerite_hua Ok! thank you! I appreciate this.

[@siyasharma9345]

Hey! I know you sent this a year ago but I’m really struggling on Richard III, do you have any high mark essays you could share please, thanksss :)

[@robindavda8967]

wish me luck! got my lit paper 1 tomorrow

[@marguerite_hua]

aa good luck!! i'm rooting for you :)

[@marguerite_hua]

oop just realised you sent that yesterday, hope it all went well!

[@robindavda8967]

the Shakespeare section was really tough but the comparison questions were quite nice so I feel somewhat confident on that section

[@khandkermanhat]

hello can you give tips on how to articulate your thoughts better in essays and then how to interweave context into your essay. I have a lot of thoughts and even when i make a strong thesis and point i get off track trying to use other parts of the play to build up my argument because i over-stress on how i can explain it with deeper analysis

[@mrspumpkin6298]

Hey, I have OCR and also study Duchess of Malfi, great Gatsby, and age of innocence. I often struggle knowing how to revise, and choosing which quotes to learn and how many of the same theme (especially with the B question on paper 1 Shakespeare, as the questions always seem so alien and elaborate, I struggle deciphering what they’re asking for and never seem to have the right quotes and critics to answer with). I kind of just panic and forget my revision and ramble, which only gets me so far. I don’t really know if there is any advice you could give me but I would appreciate anything if there is. Thank you!!

[@marguerite_hua]

hii, so there's only a finite number of themes you should memorise for. shakespeare: do quote banks (5 significant quotes each) for the characters, scenes and themes (politics/scheming, war/martial, family/relationships, betrayal/deceit). try to use different quotes - that way you will get a good range that you could remember for any essay!! a good rule of thumb, is picking quotes that you know how to analyse - i found those were easiest to remember. i remember B questions were so tricky, but remember that they're always about one of the few themes (even if they're worded super confusingly, it's j the examiner trying to catch you out). hope that helps good luck!!

[@mrspumpkin6298]

@@marguerite_hua thank you so much!!! (Sorry I didn’t see this notification straight away) this is really helpful :))

[@lilluloo]

This vid helped me so much, I’ve got the same comparative texts as you!! I’m just wondering, to be a pain lol, what were the main themes you focused on for each of the texts? I’m struggling to stick to a theme to revise quotes for:( Thank you 🤞🏼 xx

[@marguerite_hua]

aww firstly best of luck for ur exams!! i guess for the american texts, my themes were love/marriage, dreams/ideals, greed/corruption, class/money and for the medieval texts, it was similar-ish, love/marriage, deceit/lies, greed/corruption - there’s definitely another theme i’m missing, you got this!!!

[@lilluloo]

@@marguerite_hua thank you so so much I cant even begin with how much this has helped along with your vid!!💖 needed this🤞🏼

[@m2.hx1]

Although it’s open book,do you still memorise the quotes because you can’t spend time in the exam looking for the quotes

[@bea7015]

yes

[@n.t.a2528]

This audio is perfect u should 'comflex' (cringe but ty again)❤