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Past paper questions!
Past Paper Questions
This is far and away the most important technique. Research also backs that up. You find out exactly what you can and can’t do, and you get lots of practice in exam technique.
You get to see your improvement very quickly. This motivates you to keep going. So, your marks keep going up.
The best place to get past papers is Physics and Maths Tutor. Click on it for free past papers in every subject and exam board.
How to Prepare for Past Paper Questions
Read lots of past paper answers at every grade. I have guides like that for all the language questions, for Macbeth, A Christmas Carol, and Unseen Poetry. I’ll show you how to read these for FREE.
Read my guides to each literature text, including lots of grade 8 and 9 answers. You can read these for FREE too.
How to get all my guides for FREE
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For most students, that is their whole revision. So, you get all my books, entirely for free, right up until your fist English exam.
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Flash Cards / Revision Cards
One one side you put the quote.
On the other you write the analysis you want to remember, in bullet points.
That way you can test yourself on both, and remember key paragraphs which will fit every essay.
How to write the flashcards? Well, you can take the quotes and notes from my guides.
Or, visit Mr Salles Teaches English
Click on the transcript to the video. Copy and paste it into Word. Click find and replace on all the timings and replace them with a space.
Then copy and paste that into ChatGPT and Gemini. Ask the AI to organise the script into flashcards, with quotes on one side, and analysis in bullet points on the other.
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