by melaniewp | Mar 14, 2013 | Exam Essays, GCSE, Model Essays, Of Mice and Men, OMAM Essays
ATeacherWrites.comThe extract question is either 20 minutes (WJEC), or 60 (AQA), depending on which exam board you’re taking. A lot of students opt for this, but what should you write?The answer below was written for the 20 minute extract question for WJEC. If I...
by melaniewp | Mar 14, 2013 | Exam Essays, GCSE, Model Essays, Poetry, Simon Armitage
SummaryIn this poem, Armitage explores an incident when he had his ear pierced as a teenager, and his father’s shocked reaction to it. This poem is about coming of age, asserting your own identity, and seems to show he has a bad relationship with his father....
by melaniewp | Mar 13, 2013 | Exam Essays, GCSE, IGCSE, Mark Schemes, Revision
1. Start early. It gives you more time to fill in the gaps.2. A revision checklist is essential. Some teachers give these out. If yours don’t, find out the code of the exam you’re taking. Ask your class teacher for this. Go to...
by melaniewp | Mar 13, 2013 | GCSE
Use the links below to download GCSE and IGCSE past papers, mark schemes and model answers for every exam board, every subject and every tier: higher (H) or foundation (F).How1. click on the exam board icon;2. select the ‘subject’ you need;3. select the...
by melaniewp | Mar 12, 2013 | Common Entrance, Exam Essays, GCSE, IGCSE, Model Essays, Vocabulary
vivid = lifelike, very real, potent (strong)tension, suspense = building up a feeling that something is going to happenominous, foreboding = feeling, or mood, that something bad is going to happento portray = show, e.g. in what way does Steinbeck portray Curley’s...
by melaniewp | Mar 12, 2013 | Complex Vocabulary, GCSE, How to Write an Essay, IGCSE, Revision, Vocabulary
Useful words and complex vocabulary for essays in all subjects from GCSE B-A* up to A-Level A* grade or University.1 In Addition(1) besides this (as well as this), (2) furthermore (also), (3) also, (4) as well as, (5) on top of this, (6) foremost (most important, e.g....
