1. “You can’t revise for English.”
Lizzi Fox
Lead Practitioner

2. Striking the right balance...
Nagging Encouraging

3. See your GCSEs as a guide to where your strengths lie.
A word from me...
See your GCSEs as a guide to where your strengths lie.

4. There are two separate GCSEs here...
English Literature
Paper 1: Macbeth and An Inspector Calls
Paper 2: Great Expectations, Conflict poetry and unseen poetry
English Language
Paper 1: Fiction and Imaginative writing
Paper 2: Non-fiction and Transactional writing

5. English revision looks different!

6. Little and often

8. Revision Teams

9. Talk!

10. But what else (Language)?
Read (5/10 minutes per day)
Read the newspaper/a news app
Learn some high level vocabulary (10 positive and 10 negative words)
Practise planning exam answers
Practise writing exam answers (aim for TIMED conditions)
Practise proofreading
Ensure you know WHAT is being assessed in your answer to each question (A0s)
Write one creative sentence per day
Learn the sentence starters
Invest in a word-a-day or word-a-week app

11. But what else (Literature)?
Re-read your Literature texts
Listen to audio versions
Watch film adaptations
Buy and use the York Notes revision guides
Plan out answers
Write answers (aim for TIMED conditions)
Learn your terminology
Learn quotations
Mind-map themes
Mind-map characters

12. Breakdown of each exam.
Revision tips and tasks for each individual component of each individual exam.
Advice on how to re-read texts.
Specific requirements for each question.
Sample exam papers.
Advice on which revision guides to get.
Advice for parents.

13. To the supporters… Talk to us Allow your house to be taken over…
Praise them
Treat them
Love them
Encourage them
Feed them
Listen to them
Talk to them
Time them
Quiz them
Test them
Talk to us
Allow your house to be taken over…

14. You know your child better than anyone else does.
Most importantly
You know your child better than anyone else does.

15. ’t
You can
revise for English