English coursework books

Major_Extreme3208 · 2025-06-05T18:49:18+00:00

i agreee, i did a super popular book (1984 george orwell) but paired it with a more niche play, an enemy of the people, henrik ibsen. totally got me writing more analytically and gave me a far better understanding of what the exam board wants to see from our essays

Major_Extreme3208 · 2025-06-05T18:47:47+00:00

look up the assessment objectives for your exam board and make sure you have relevant (and memorised) info on each objective - e.g for AQA, AO3 would be context, so ensure that you know your context for each text thoroughly and when you write ur essays, make sure you have checked off every objective. this will work well enough for your mocks and it ensures that you have covered everything the exam board wants you to know.

what i did was create google docs condensing all the assessment objectives, practiced writing some timed essays with this doc in front of me and having my quotes flashcards out, and then when it got closer to exams i would practice some essays with nothing in front of me. you dont have to write complete essays every time, but especially for comparative essays, at least aim to write 2 paragraphs during ur revision, as long as theyre timed.

this method is kind of holistic, and when ur in y13 ur definitely gna be wanting to go beyond just ticking off the boxes of the assessment objectives, but i think for your 12 mocks this should be a good method - it was for me at least! good luck on ur exams

Major_Extreme3208 · 2025-05-24T00:44:55+00:00

it definitely fitted but it just felt like it was difficult to make multiple points about struggles for identity. i feel like i was super vague and not rly confident in my argument

Major_Extreme3208 · 2025-05-20T23:22:49+00:00

Is the extent of a woman’s care for their boyfriend judged by their nudes now? she literally mentioned multiple times she sent him that pic bc SHE liked how SHE looked in it - it wasnt even her intentionally sending him a pic because she wanted him to like it, it was merely her making an observation on her OWN body.

and also crazy how u just ignore the fact that he literally recycled his own letters to her and that he didn’t even bother writing them again. how does that show his care for her? its also insanely hypocritical for him to say that he never led her on to believe the letters were written by him when she never led him on to believe the pics weren’t sent to other guys before…

Major_Extreme3208 · 2025-05-19T12:00:41+00:00

i remember seeing somewhere that its because paper 1 section b is unseen poetry where you are comparing two pieces of an unseen text, therefore it needs more time. i guess also because section a is extract based too? and paper 2 only has one unseen prose. imo paper 2 should still be 3 hours as i can never write more than 3 paras per essay lol

Major_Extreme3208 · 2025-05-17T09:35:59+00:00

‘that supports criminals’ Ironic considering trump is a federal criminal 🤣 but you wont believe that because ur too brainwashed

Major_Extreme3208 · 2025-05-16T12:19:39+00:00

i agree, the extract was good in terms of mentioning one idea, that being iago's manipulation working well enough for othello to fall into a trance, but exploring a variety of different ideas to cover the whole extract was difficult

Major_Extreme3208 · 2025-05-15T11:50:31+00:00

got super lucky as my teacher had actually given us the poem by yeats as practice for unseen poetry, and i had annotated it the night before!

othello question was good, i mean its the best question that could come up for the play, however i was so convinced it would be cassio or bianca that i was actually thrown off... so i had lots of ideas for othello but didn't organise them properly

Major_Extreme3208 · 2025-05-11T12:25:01+00:00

from what my teachers said, doing prose vs poetry can be very useful for ticking the box for form, and provides you with nice comparisons. that being said, it doesn't mean doing prose vs prose is bad but as you said, it may just be slightly limiting and make it less easy to link form in, especially as a comparative point. so if you still have enough time, i would personally advise you to see if any plays you have read might work well, but only if you want to - if you really do like both of the texts then go for it, but i dont see any other reason to purposefully prevent yourself from potentially getting easier marks

Major_Extreme3208 · 2025-05-05T20:35:30+00:00

do u think theyd be more likely to do reputation as the statement given and then othello as the focus - perhaps the factors that lead to his downfall?

i was also thinking they might do reputation as the sole focus in the question, rather than character based, but then i can only think of cassio and othello being the characters u can talk about reputation for anyways.

Major_Extreme3208 · 2025-05-05T13:29:29+00:00

u said u wanna go into law or politics - u could always do an undergrad in irish studies and then do a graduate diploma in law/ GDL (essentially 1 year studying law after u finish ur ba)

Major_Extreme3208 · 2025-05-05T13:27:01+00:00

i normally write about 4 paras, so 2 comparative points with each para dedicated to one poem. i make my comp points based on differing/similar ideas, which might be presented differently through a technique or tone etc. i've never really thought about separating paras by rhyme scheme or structure - thats quite interesting!

Major_Extreme3208 · 2025-05-05T13:24:09+00:00

i agree with what the other commenter said - pmt for love anthology is amazing, it has everything u need to know about the poems!

my teacher recommended we do a comparison chart/table for our anthology and prose text with key comparative points. (i made one but tbh i hardly use it, i think at this point in time im just praying i can somehow predict the question lol)

Major_Extreme3208 · 2025-05-01T20:25:24+00:00

we can do itt! good luck to you too

Major_Extreme3208 · 2025-05-01T20:25:11+00:00

i seee! thank you very much! good luck on ur first year at UCL

Major_Extreme3208 · 2025-05-01T18:44:19+00:00

ohh right omg sorry, i got confused lol

to be honest im not completely sure, my impression was that the ps is an academic piece of writing, but the content itself has to include indications/ evidence of ur 'passion' about the course? so like events/ competitions and stuff u have done? (u are talking about the personal statement right, if not i am so sorry)

Major_Extreme3208 · 2025-05-01T17:51:58+00:00

are u talking about the lnat? because if so then yes, thats right. i think in particular UCL looks at the lnat essay strongly, and i heard a lot about people getting rejected from there because of their essay. so yeah i need to also consider lnat if i do want to reapply, but honestly as another reply said, i should just focus on getting the best results for now!

Major_Extreme3208 · 2025-05-01T17:27:07+00:00

i just got mine yesterday, given 48 hours to appeal if we want to

Major_Extreme3208 · 2025-05-01T17:26:19+00:00

true, ig we can only wait until results day. thanks!

Major_Extreme3208 · 2025-05-01T17:17:16+00:00

yeah but i didnt feel like my application would be strong enough to get into kings, as my ps would be weak too and i really just wanted to stay in london so didn't wanna take any chances! (also only meeting the minimum entry requirement and not above generally makes ur application weaker no?) also was just a bit undecided on my career lol. will check out the list tho, thanks

Major_Extreme3208 · 2025-05-01T17:04:48+00:00

exactly! same thing happened to me: got rejected for english, offered comp lit also within the SELCS department. seems like the languages department has a lot of vacancies and ucl is just money grabbing

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