Hello Sir!
I am a student who just finished their GCSEs, and went from a Grade 4 to Grade 9 because of your videos! I achieved full marks on Literature Paper 2 and I know you often go through full mark essays on your channel, so you may like to use my essays.
I did An Inspector Calls and Power & Conflict Poetry.
Best wishes and thank you very much,
S
Top Tips
Making sure I had as many interpretations of single quotes as possible
Making sure I learnt key subject terminology specific to each text
Planning essay ideas for each theme and character, with a thesis for each and as many points I can think of (backed up by quotes)
Writing essays and getting my teacher to mark them and give me constructive feedback, then acting on this feedback and asking her to remark and repeating this until I got into the top band (27-30)
Reading your books! I made quote banks from them with brief interpretations (I usually used key words, such as “domination” for “my nyas” about the interpretation instead of writing it all out). I also tried to pick the lesser-known quotes (I was able to differentiate them as they hadn't been discussed in class), as I think that makes for a more interesting and complex response.
Your 5 key quotes and the FOSSE essay structure for poetry - I also planned FOSSE for every poem in note form, again using key words such as "ancient -> Napoleon desire for power -> Duke of Wellington"
Hope this helps!
My Thoughts
I bang on all the time about how it really is possible to get top grades, even for an ‘average’ student.
It is just knowing stuff, and hard work. That only comes with determination. When you hand in essays, and your marks keep creeping up, you feel successful. That gives you the motivation to continue.
Motivation hardly every comes first. Don’t wait to be inspired. It’s the other way around. And it doesn’t sound as though it was that much hard work, either!
Do you think S bought a range of my guides at £6.99 each, or do you think he got them all for £0.99 for 60 days on Kindle Unlimited?
Here’s the link, for 30 days free, and the next 30 for 99 pence!