The ONLY video you will need for GCSE English Literature | Unheard tips and tricks

[@carlainyonga7009]

Very nice of you to explain these, I am the year of 2024 and I am aiming to boost my English grades, so thank you.

[@estherp3408]

thank you so so much!!! i've been stuck at a 7, bordering an 8, since yr 10 and just by watching this i feel sm more confident in my revision techniques!

[@jamsi1066]

samee

[@SonicRidersZeroGravity]

No ur not

[@estherp3408]

@@SonicRidersZeroGravity huh? what do you mean buddy

[@user-yo5rx2dd8f]

this video was SO useful you don’t understand. genuinely the best English lit video I’ve watched

[@ninasavich1706]

thank you sm, you're more useful than any other revision tips video I've seen. Plus I'm learning the same texts and poems as you so this is great.

[@gorusagul]

oh my goshh this video is AMAZINGG! my progress in eng lit has been slow (i keep getting 24/30 on my essays, the word level analysis tips and splitting the points into each act tip is eye-opening), but these tips are so unique and helpful!! i was so stumped on how to revise quotes effectively, and even more confused on what to memorise from the poems that have to be compared until i saw this 😭😭 once again - amazing video

[@tamratips]

Glad to help :D Once you know what the examiner is looking for it becomes much easier 😁

[@suzysheep149]

Hi! In my recent Romeo and Juliet practice essay i got 25/30 and Im hoping to get it even higher with this video. Thank you

[@suzysheep149]

commented this nearly a year ago, about to do my actual exams and came back :)

[@theprofessionalgunner7538]

🎉🎉🎉​@@suzysheep149

[@ImJust_AHumanBeing]

I just found this channel after searching for the most perfect simplified video but informational. I think I can get my predicted grades although I have less than 30 days until my first exam however. I’m currently at a grade 3/4 for English literature however I did not know I was capped at 10/30 marks if I didn’t mention the ‘whole’ play… However my predicted grade is a 7 and I’m willing to do anything at this point to get that. Going off topic to show off my knowledge, personally Is one of my weaknesses. I will probably come back after all my exams are over and edit this comment to see how much I improved by. I have a mock exam for English literature (last one) this Friday so I will hope I get better than a 4 then build up to a 7 or above 😁 Have a good day to anyone who reads this comment, and if you have exams, best of luck to you!!!

[@khushimodhwadia9342]

hiiii what did u get?? im in y10 and have my mock on monday

[@maddisonzara5230]

Girl I'm barely on a 6 😭. I just don't know what to do at this point I just feel hopeless I always revise for my exams and I cannot for the life of me get past level 3/4

[@tamratips]

How do you revise for the exams? Perhaps try different revision methods. I was in your shoes too, what I did was I talked to some of my friends who were getting top marks in English and asked them to help me/give me perceptive analysis. I learnt from them what I needed to change and what the mark scheme is looking for.

[@mr_wavey07]

thannk you so much. i have my gcses in may this yr and i appreciate this. im roughly onn a 6

[@tamratips]

Glad I could help! I would say to make sure that you understand the texts that you are learning as exams are about showing off your knowledge to the examiner - they want you to do well. If you develop your understanding, it should boost your grade up to a Grade 7 or higher! :))

[@mr_wavey07]

@@tamratips thank you so much I will take this on! Btw do you have any socials we can text u on?

[@asoma1680]

Thank you for this video its sooo well made

[@tamratips]

🥰

[@soyoon3714]

HI! For the poetry comparison table thing, about how many slides did you do? There are so many poems and so many possible comparisons it's overwhelming trying to figure out which ones to do. Thanks a lot!

[@tamratips]

Hey, I believe I learnt 15 comparisons in total which was quite a lot. You can reuse the same material from each poem to compare it to different poems which makes the process slightly faster. :)

[@Mith_seafowl._]

@@tamratipscould you share your poem comparisons if you have them ? Any chance ?

[@Yusuf-di8hk]

thanks this helped so much, could you do a video on sciences?

[@remarkablething5874]

Thank you, this helped

[@tamratips]

Glad to hear!

[@bk4341]

Coincidence you said 'see how he changes' that was our GCSE Macbeth question this year

[@tamratips]

👀😏

[@jesswatches]

this video was so hopeful I’ll be watching the maths one next!

[@oceanof.stars0]

hiii my year 10 mocks start on Thursday and my first paper is English lit 1 (followed by Spanish!!) thank you so so so much I watched your English lang video and then did a past paper and my grade immediately went up. I'm a maths and science person not English, (except lang paper 1 section B) and I went from a 7 to an 8/9 TYSM

[@ElectronicSquare]

My GCSEs started on Thursday and I have my English exam (paper 1) in 8 and a half hours, I’m actually so cooked

[@cultofcffee2378]

@@ElectronicSquare The first half of my paper was alright, the last paragraph of A Christmas Carol, I started writing about Egyptian mythology while someone had a seizure three desks infront :0

[@trilightpp-wc9wq]

Hi, thank you for your video! It is really helpful. As there are only around 20 days left till gcse, would you recommend to prioritise making plans for different themes/ possible questions or doing practice questions instead? If I have a clear plan for all the themes / characters, will it be more beneficial than completing loads of past paper/ practice questions? thx

[@tamratips]

Prioritise making plans and memorising them but try to do at least one practice question with one of the plans you make so you know that you have the right exam technique. Try and get your teachers to mark this before you go off to study leave. Basically I would make a plan, get my teachers to mark it, and based off that feedback either add or get rid of unnecessarily information from my plan, then make more plans knowing what is effective. Good luck!

[@mangopie3542]

So helpful thank you so much I was struggling as I have never learnt this with my school❤

[@tamratips]

:)

[@simrankaur2849]

Tysm do one for aqa english language

[@user-nm1pt5ld4p]

Thank you that was soooo helpful

[@jahseh2640]

Thank u 🙌🦋

[@ninasavich1706]

Do you have any tips for English language? I've been getting a 7 (barely) for all my mocks in year 11 and hopefully it's not too late to try and get a 9. Would you recommend memorising a creative writing story beforehand or just writing it on the spot?

[@tamratips]

Hey, I am currently making an English Language vid which should come out during the Easter holidays. For now, I would recommend creating two story plots and a description plan which are quite versatile so if any question comes up, you can use one of those pre-planned plots. Memorise the plot rather than the writing. :)

[@Average_Life04]

Thanks really helped 😃

[@Average_Life04]

Hey can you please give some tips on Power and conflict poetry. I have mocks so it would be helpful if you could make a vdeo on those before next week. Thanks

[@amykane6]

Do you have the poetry comparison tables that you prepared beforehand ? I would be very grateful if you could make them available!! Thank you so much Tamra

[@AishaAhmed-i2e]

Hiya, I absolutely love your videos, they are so helpful💓 Tysm for taking your time to make them and saving everyone's grades. Is it ok if you could analyse this quote for me please ' As if we were all mixed up together like bees in a hive-community and all that nonsense' ( Particularly the bees and why Mr Birling says bees) TYSM 🤗🤗🤩🤩

[@UltimateETS2exp.nx3du]

Hey, I have my real exams in 2 months and stressing cause teachers are not explaining it to me, your'e video was everything we are covering but am still very nervous of just capping a 4. any quick tips. Great vid BTW!!

[@tamratips]

You've got this! You still have time to aim high :)

[@AishaAhmed-i2e]

Can you do an example essay for AIC? Pleaseeee tysm!

[@kaihamisi780]

What Poems did you choose to focus on for Power and conflict?

[@Ayzlxn]

Thanks for this! Also I’m worried that the 5 quotes I’ll memorise for each character won’t be relabels to the question. Like the 2022 paper for macbeths fears, if that was my actual gcse id what I would do bc the quotes I would’ve memorised would not be linked to that - so I’m really worried another question like that where I won’t have any good quotes will come up this year. Do you have any advise?

[@tamratips]

Yeah I had that Macbeths fears question in my actual exam - it was a bit dodgy. I was always able to talk about hubris and how that relates to an Aristotelian tragedy (context). I would look at past paper questions and see if you can use the quotes you have memorised. Perhaps learn some more if you feel as though you cannot adapt your quotes to the question. Hope this helps :)

[@Lisa-id2jb]

I’m struggling with what quotes I should learn. Should I learn quotes from each theme for each character for each scene 😅

[@annaranjit3463]

is it alright if you can tell me when you wrote this paper? 2023?

[@amanahlololol]

I'm gonna do macbeth, an inspector calls, and power and conflict. This helps sm ♡♡ what did you use to help you study for those?

[@starlightseeun]

samee i'm doing all of them too! i'm so scaredd for the gcses.. i'm stuck on grade 5s.. its what i got on all my mocks.. but i'm going to revise even more from tmrw

[@bubbletastic124]

Hey, you mentioned Aristotelian and Nietzsche tragedies, I don’t really understand what they mean?

[@velvetringinthealps]

are you able to send the slideshow with the power and conflict poems analysis, if u still have access to them? the video was realy useful thanks sm!

[@Maia-xl1sh]

thanks for the helpful vid! can you please post your flash cards on an inspector calls

[@tamratips]

Hey, yeah they're on my buymeacoffee page on my profile :)

[@thv_vibezz]

If I got a grade 3 in both lit and lang in my February mock wouldn't I still have time to get higher than a five

[@3potato777]

100%and if u put in the work everyone can get a 9. Aim high and u got this!

[@user-dz8we3cx4f]

WE NEED ENGLISH LANGUAGE VIDEOS

[@tamratips]

Posted on my channel now :)

[@foraiza]

hi! should we memorise the analysis of the selected quotes from the poems or just the quotes?

[@tamratips]

Remember the analysis too - the more you memorise, the more secure your answer will be :)

[@siennarackal]

What do you mention for the theme of herbage?

[@crazyfriend50]

how do you sort out a strict teacher, keep getting 6s despite getting a 9 in language

[@tamratips]

Perhaps if they are marking you down, you could ask why? Feedback would be the most important thing at this stage. If you are not satisfied with the feedback you could always ask another teacher to mark an essay of yours to see what they think. I wouldn't be too worried as in the real thing, your teacher is not going to be the one marking it. Also, the examiners want you to do well and mark positively - sometimes it does not feel that way but if you make one perceptive comment in the top band, they have to put you in that band. Hope this helps :)

[@ganeshthariha39]

I do pride and predjudice and I’m not quite sure when the beginning middle and end of the novel is. What should I do in this case?

[@TeaganJ-k3h]

what exam bored are you describing?

[@tamratips]

AQA

[@islaa4288]

hi! should i answer chronologically, like structure my paragraphs from the beginning of the play/novel to the end and fitting the extract in the timeline?

[@tamratips]

Hey, I would include the extract at the beginning of all 3 main points that you have. For example: Main point paragraph 1: Point - from extract Evidence - from extract, 1 quote in detail Explanation - link it to the beginning of the play Context - add some in Then paragraph 2 and 3 are the same but link it to the middle and end of the play. So it is chronological but with the extract in every paragraph so you link it to the question.

[@islaa4288]

@@tamratips this is great thanks

[@itzopsniper1293]

Hey, okay so, at 5:00, you said that Eric Birling came up on the real exam, but I can't seem to find a single exam where he showed up, and in the 2022 exams, Q7 was Chain of events and Q8 was Anger. In a nutshell, should I bother with Eric?

[@tamratips]

In my AQA 2022 paper, one of the choices was Eric and the other was about inequality in society. There will always be two options for the questions so if Eric comes up in one and the other is the theme, you do not have to bother with Eric. However, you could always use Eric's character when answering a theme question so you should vaguely know what happens with Eric but you don't have to learn many quotes from his character. Hope that makes sense :)

[@s2_krysp1]

is there any way you could share the flashcards you made?

[@tamratips]

Yep, will probably share them closer to the time/when I have time to organise them. In the meantime, it's good revision to create your own flashcards with the quotes you plan to use in the exam! The quotes I chose may not have been the same ones that you like.

[@Zodi-ot1jl]

Can you please share them now

[@Synersty]

Did you do french? Or a language. Since im like.. really struggling with my languages

[@user-hb2ws3pd2r]

I could help you, I got full marks on my Spanish exam, what is it you're struggling with?

[@Synersty]

@@user-hb2ws3pd2r i do french and it's about how do i improve from a g5 to g8/9 in my reading + listening, as I can't even connect to the words in listening and as for reading, there are alot of words which i have to think about and really try to understand in order to understand the question etc... And with so little time left.. I'm really stressed

[@mohib5080]

​@@Synersty For listening, I would try listen to podcasts where the speaker talks in french and explains what they said in english (I found that really helpful), or just some exposure to hearing french with subtitles, just try and get some regular exposure though. For reading, you've got to memorise the main words (edexcel list for me) and also I would try looking at the context of the sentence and then making an educated guess. Tbh I think there's a fair bit of guessing in both, but you will get them right if you get the general gist. Hope that helped!

[@tamratips]

I personally did not do a language but I have friends who did French so I could ask them for some tips if you would like. It looks like others have helped already!

[@harmanpanwar]

Can you pls share your macbeth flashcards also aic

[@tamratips]

hey I've shared them now in the description

[@SEditsOfficial]

This is a very helpful video hopefully i will do well on my y10 mocks tmrw thank you so much

[@tamratips]

Good luck!

[@eshalrehman53]

Thanks ao much your advice really helped with my revision and the videos you suggested were amazing. Hope the lit exam went well for everyone else!!!!

[@eshalrehman53]

Should i only revise 10 quotes for Macbeth in total or should I do like 10 quotes for each character?

[@tamratips]

Try and learn 10 quotes per character as you never know what will come up. Learn ones for Macbeth and Lady Macbeth especially!

[@eshalrehman53]

Thanks so much, I really want a 7 atleast in lit and I'm standing on an expected grade 6 but your advice is really helping with my revision. Good luck in your exams too!!! 😊

[@Temidire-lz5so]

When you said power and conflict, is it like the charge of the light brigade

[@ash_2279]

yeah thats what she meant i think

[@Temidire-lz5so]

@@ash_2279 Ok

[@covenantezeh]

Thanks so much dear

[@lauraward6443]

Do you tutor