Great Resources from our English Grade Booster Course.

1. Revision Tips
You need to go in to the exam hall feeling confident, walking
tall and knowing you are going to show the person who is
marking your exam script that you have learnt how to write
clearly and accurately after eleven years at school.
Complete a revision plan and stick to it.
You need to increasing the amount of revision each week as
you near the exam.
Start revising this week - don’t think you can cram it all in a
few weeks from the exams.
Take regular breaks (spending hours in one stretch might be
counter-productive)
Find a way of revising that suits you.
Have separate boxes/ folders for each subject- colour coded?
Postcards, visual drawings with key words/concepts.
Flow charts, mnemonics (SMILE,PEE,PETAL PETER,AFOREST)
Google: memory technique…try different ideas.
Complete chapter/act and character summaries.
Produce specific quotation and vocabulary banks.
Ask a friend/parent to verbally test you.
Stick reminder post-its around your room with key words on.
Create a spelling list with the words you get wrong- for
example alliteration, onomatopoeia -get someone to test you.
Revise previous essays you have completed.
Take note of what your teachers have told you: if you keep
getting comments for the same fault …. fix it.
Revise with a friend.
Ask your teacher if there’s something you can’t quite grasp.

2. Go to the school revision classes.
Use videos on you tube to revise too if relevant.
Ensure you know the difference between the layout of a letter
and article.
Use the recommended websites at the end of this presentation
to help you. Take time to read them over the next few weeks…
Practise writing short plans for example essay titles,e.g.
“A Day that was Important to Me”….complete the outline
headings under timed conditions. (3-5 minutes)
Read newspaper and magazine articles.
If the questions says “to what extent do you agree” with an
idea, remember to say I completely agree or I partially agree
or I do not agree in the first paragraph.
Keep any quotations to a few words only or a phrase.
Use the techniques writers use in your own writing, for
example figurative language, alliteration etc.