HOW TO GET A GRADE 9 IN GCSE ENGLISH LANGUAGE & LITERATURE (Top Tricks They Don't Tell You)
Summary
TLDRThis video offers comprehensive tips for achieving high grades in English Language and Literature. It's divided into four segments: improving analysis and mastering paragraphs for English language, and memorizing content and acing structure for English literature. The presenter emphasizes the importance of revising English language, understanding question requirements, and not relying on fixed methods like PEE. For literature, the focus is on memorizing quotes and content effectively, using blurting and summarizing on flashcards. The video also recommends watching specific YouTubers for in-depth analysis and advises on how to use exemplar essays and examiner reports to enhance writing skills.
Takeaways
- 📝 Writing sophisticatedly is key to achieving high grades in English.
- 🎓 To excel in English Language, focus on improving analysis and mastering paragraph structure.
- 🕒 Time management is crucial; allocate time wisely for each question to ensure completion.
- 🔍 Understand the requirements of each question type to prepare effectively.
- 🚫 Avoid relying on fixed methods like PE as they may not secure high marks.
- 🌟 Highlight language devices in your analysis to ensure you gain marks.
- 👀 Watch recommended YouTubers like Stacy Ray, Mr. Bruff, and Mr. Sally for in-depth analysis tips.
- 📖 Read the question paper first to know what to look for in the exam text.
- 🖊️ Use highlighting and annotation to save time when revisiting the text for answers.
- 📈 Track your progress by compiling your essays and seeking critical feedback from teachers.
- 📚 For English Literature, memorize quotes that can be applied to multiple themes and characters.
- 📑 Use blurting and summarizing on flashcards to aid in memorization and essay writing.
Q & A
What is the most important thing for getting a high grade in English language?
-The transcript emphasizes that the most important thing is mastering the skill of sophisticated writing, which includes understanding lexical fields, symbolic meaning, literal meaning, and highlighting language devices in each paragraph.
How does the speaker recommend improving analysis in English language?
-The speaker suggests improving analysis by focusing on deeper meanings beyond what is obvious, looking at words and their connotations, and always highlighting language devices in the text analysis.
What is the speaker's stance on the use of fixed methods like PE in English language exams?
-The speaker advises against using fixed methods like PE because they are not effective for achieving high grades. Examiners can recognize these structures and they do not demonstrate creative thinking.
What YouTubers does the speaker recommend for improving English language skills?
-The speaker recommends watching Stacy Ray, Mr. Bruff, and Mr. Sally for English language and literature.
How should one approach reading the exam insert and question paper according to the transcript?
-The speaker advises to first look at the question paper to understand what is being asked, then read the insert with those questions in mind, highlighting language devices and making annotations to save time.
What is the significance of mastering paragraphs in English language exams?
-Mastering paragraphs is crucial as it helps in writing coherent and structured essays. It involves drawing from exemplar essays, comparing one's writing to them, and implementing improvements.
How does the speaker suggest memorizing content for English literature exams?
-The speaker suggests memorizing content by creating quotes that can be used for multiple characters and themes, using blurting techniques, and summarizing each poem on flashcards.
What is 'blurting' as mentioned in the transcript?
-'Blurting' is a revision technique where you write down everything you know about a topic, compare it with a textbook or mind map, and add what you missed to reinforce learning.
How can one prepare for the unpredictability of English literature exams as described in the script?
-One can prepare by ensuring they have quotes that are versatile for different characters and themes, doing blurting sessions, and summarizing poems on flashcards to cover a wide range of potential exam questions.
What is the advice given for writing a structured essay in English literature?
-The advice is to write a point, explanation, and refer to a language device in every paragraph. It's also important to maintain a consistent quality throughout the essay and to plan or jot down points to remember during the exam.
How should quotes be incorporated into essay writing according to the transcript?
-Quotes should be embedded within sentences to make the writing flow smoothly, rather than being presented as separate blocks of text. This sophisticated approach can help achieve higher grades.
Outlines
📝 Mastering English Language and Literature
The speaker emphasizes the importance of sophisticated writing for achieving high grades in English Language and Literature. They share personal experience and strategies for improving essay quality and exam performance. The video is divided into four parts, focusing on improving analysis and mastering paragraph writing for English Language, and memorizing content and acing essay structure for English Literature. The speaker advises against relying on luck or fixed methods like PEE for English Language, and stresses the need for deep analysis and understanding of language devices to impress examiners.
🖋️ Enhancing Paragraph Writing and Essay Skills
This paragraph delves into strategies for mastering paragraph writing in English Language exams. The speaker suggests learning from exemplar essays, comparing one's own writing to them, and seeking critical feedback from teachers. They recommend writing an essay every week and using examiner reports to understand common mistakes and what examiners look for. For English Literature, the focus shifts to memorizing quotes and content effectively by using 'blurting' techniques and creating summary flashcards for poems. The speaker also advises on how to handle unseen poetry and the importance of taking teacher feedback to heart for improvement.
📚 Structuring Essays for English Literature
The final paragraph focuses on structuring essays in English Literature to achieve high grades. The speaker outlines a method for writing paragraphs that include a point, explanation, reference to a language device, and discussion of connotations and context. They stress the importance of maintaining quality throughout the essay to create a positive impression on examiners. The speaker also recommends reading exemplar essays to understand how high-scoring students structure their essays and to note down effective words and devices. They provide an example of how to embed quotes smoothly within sentences to enhance the sophistication of writing, which is crucial for achieving top marks in English exams.
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Keywords
💡Sophisticated writing
💡Analysis
💡Paragraphs
💡Lexical fields
💡Language devices
💡Exemplar essays
💡Blurting
💡Character progression
💡Unseen poetry
💡Embedding quotations
Highlights
Sophisticated writing is key to achieving a high grade in English.
Begin by improving your analysis skills for English language.
Mastering paragraphs is crucial for English language success.
Memorizing content is essential for English literature.
Ace your essay structure to excel in English literature.
English language requires strategic revision, not just memorization.
Time management is critical in English language exams.
Understanding the requirements of each question type is vital.
Avoid fixed methods like PE as they limit creativity.
Focus on lexical fields, symbolic meaning, and literal meaning in analysis.
Highlighting language devices in your text can secure marks.
Explaining the writer's choice of language devices is important.
Don't focus on the obvious; think deeper for better analysis.
Be unique in your responses to stand out to examiners.
Watch specific YouTubers like Stacy Ray for in-depth English tips.
Start the exam by reviewing the question paper first.
Highlighting during the exam can help you save time.
Mastering paragraphs involves learning from exemplar essays.
Writing an essay every week and getting feedback is recommended.
Track your progress by compiling your essays.
Reviewing the examiner's report can help you avoid common mistakes.
Memorize quotes that can be used for multiple themes and characters.
Blurting is an effective method for memorizing content.
Use flashcards to summarize and memorize poetry.
Practice unseen poetry as a skill and seek teacher feedback.
In literature essays, maintain consistent quality throughout.
Plan your writing or jot down notes to remember your points.
Read exemplar essays to understand how to structure your own.
Embed quotes within your sentences for a sophisticated writing style.
Transcripts
this is the most important thing for
getting a grade n in English in general
it's just a very sophisticated way of
writing so I really recommend that you
start to do this if you haven't already
now this might seem like a lot but I
feel like this is what really got me the
grade
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n hey guys and welcome to another video
so in this video we're going to be
talking about English lit and English
Lang and how to get a grade line and
both of them so English you either hate
it or love it and I let's just say I
wasn't a fan of it but I did manage to
get good grades in both of them so in
this video I'm basically going to be
giving you tips and tricks on how to
improve your grade and also how to
improve the quality of your essays so
let's get into it so this video is going
to be split into four parts the first
two parts are going to be focused on
English language the first part is going
to be focused on how to improve your
analysis and the second part is going to
be how to master your paragraphs so for
the final two parts that's going to be
focused on English literature the first
part is going to be focused on how to
memorize content and the second part is
going to be on how to Ace your structure
let's get into it so let's talk about
English language and a lot of people
think that for English language you
don't need to revise it's just one of
those things you walk into the exam and
you just you know it's like it's just
analyzing text like there's not much you
can do for it but I'm here to tell you
that they are wrong if you want to be
guaranteed a good grade you have to
revise English language and the way that
you revise it is not the same as other
subject so as I said before English
language is all unseen so it's not like
you memorize content for it what you do
need to do is to master the skill of
English language so please do not ignore
your English language because if you do
it's just like it's based on luck it's
based on what they give you on the day
and how you analyze that and that's just
a very risky approach if you
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want and that's a very risky approach to
take if you want to be guaranteed a good
grade so what you have to understand
about English language is that it's very
pressed for time so you can't be wasting
time talking about things that won't get
you marks on certain kinds of questions
you also need to allocate yourself time
to each question just enough so you can
complete all of the questions in the
given time so what you need to
understand is what is required of you
for each question so some questions are
going to be multiple choice and they
just require you to do read and
comprehension some questions do require
comparison some questions require deeper
analysis and some questions require
creative writing so you do need to know
what you're going to be getting on each
paper just so you're prepared and you're
in the right mindset for it English
language is more of a skill once you get
your structure down you probably
guaranteed a good grade but you
shouldn't focus on us these very fixed
methods such as PE because these are not
effective in getting you a good grade
The Examiner knows when you're using
these kind of structures and it just
shows that you're not thinking
creatively you're just following a fixed
structure and it's probably not going to
get you those higher marks so when you
analyze something you should be focused
on lexical Fields symbolic meaning
literal meaning you should be looking at
the words and the connotations that they
have you should also always highlight a
language device in each paragraph and if
you can't just focus on the meaning of
the words because language devices will
always guarantee marks and if you
explain why the writer has chosen to use
this device and what it shows then
you'll definitely be explaining what the
examiner wants you to explain this is
the most important thing for getting a
grade n in English in general first of
all don't focus on what is obvious to
you so don't just go to what jumps in
your head immediately try to think of
things deeper than what is in the
question even if it sounds like complete
and utter rubbish if you make it sound
nice then the examiner will think oh wow
this person's really pushing themselves
they're really thinking deeper they're
really going into this extract because
if you just do simple things everyone
else is doing it and thousands of people
are sting these exams every single year
so the examiners are just going to get
tired of people repeating the same thing
over and over so you really want to make
sure that you're unique in what you say
to improve your exam teue in English
language I really recommend that you
watch these YouTubers so I'm talking
about Stacy Ray I'm talking about Mr
Bruff and I'm talking about Mr Sally but
Stacy Ray is so underrated so definitely
be sure to check her out for English lit
and language because she goes into depth
like the things that she says like I
would have never have thought about it
that way so definitely be sure to check
her out so let's say your exam has
started they give you the insert and
they give you the question paper the
first thing that you should be opening
is the question paper you want to look
at all of the questions in the entire
paper and see what they're asking you to
do bear this in mind when you're reading
the insert when you're reading the
insert if you read the question before
beforehand you know what to look for it
will be in the back of your mind you
won't just be going in blinds you won't
just be reading this exract like you
would any other book you just need to
focus on what they are asking you so
that you can prepare yourself for that
what I used to save time is whenever I
saw a language device or something that
really stood out to me I highlighted it
a lot of examiners say that you
shouldn't use highlights in your exams
and you shouldn't use it in the actual
exam paper on the insert you can
highlight that you can do whatever you
want to that because they're not going
to take that and they're not going to
mark it and you don't even put your name
on it so if you need a highlighter to
make things stand out and bring a
highlighter into the example just don't
use it on anything else other than the
insert make sure you just do a quick
annotation so that when you actually
going back to the question you won have
to waste time looking through the insert
because as I said before you are pressed
for time in these papers let's move on
to how to master your paragraphs for
English language to master the way that
you write things you want to draw from
other people that's not to say copy them
completely because like just don't but
I'm just saying that you want to start
looking at what Exemplar essays are
doing and look at you're writing and
then see what is missing you should also
do the same questions as these people
are doing in the Exemplar essays so
before you read the exampler essay you
should try to attempt that question and
then compare your writing to their
writing and then fix what is missing
what is missing is essentially what is
stopping you from getting that grade
nine so you need to focus on that and
then you should start implementing that
in your own writing now this might seem
like a lot but I feel like this is what
really got me the grade n it's basically
write an essay questions every single
single week yep every single week and
giving them to your teacher for critical
advice you do not want them to sugarcoat
anything you want them to tell you what
is good okay but mostly focus on what is
there to improve because that's how you
improve in all of your gcss you need to
focus on your weaknesses every essay
that you do you should see a gradual
increase in the quality of your writing
and you should take it as a step towards
getting a better grade compile these
essays and don't lose them these are
very important you want to track your
progress and you don't want to forget
things that you initially missing
because that is what got you the better
grade in the first place when you do p
papers for English language you also
want to take a look at the examiner
report The Examiner report is basically
a report written by the examiners which
focuses on what everyone did that year
of the past paper it focuses on what
people did good and what people also
made mistakes on when you get to know
these mistakes you can avoid them in
your own writing and it just helps you
to see what the examiner is truly
looking for and what also gets people
good grades so whenever you do past
papers first do the paper are blinds
like don't look at any of the Exemplar
essays don't look at any of the
examiner's report just focus on doing
the exam paper blind as you would with
any other exam paper because English is
subjective it's really hard to mark your
own paper so I wouldn't recommend doing
that but this examiner's report does
help you to see where you've gone wrong
okay so now moving on to English
literature the problem with English
literature is that you have to memorize
a lot of quotes and a lot of content for
each theme and character but there's
only one topic that actually comes up in
the exam there therefore the way to
memorize content for plays and novels is
to make sure you have quotes that you
can use for multiple different
characters and multiple different themes
so try to get a quote that covers at
least one character and one theme of the
story don't forget that you can even use
quotes that are just one word only for
example one that is really easy to
memorize for unexpected course is how
Sheila goes from using the word Mommy to
using mother towards the end of the play
this shows her character progression and
how she's matured throughout the play so
the way that you can memorize quotes and
context is to do blurting and I'm sure
you've heard of blurting before is
basically when you write down everything
you know on a piece of paper and then
you compare it to a textbook or your own
mind map you add in what you missed with
another pen and as you repeat this
you'll end up learning more content over
time and rememberize more quotes that
you can use in your essay the way that
I'll go about doing this is that I will
make a A4 summary of each character and
theme I personally use Stacy Ray's
videos to do this cuz her analyst is so
good and it just summarizes everything
in just like a 10-minute video so
definitely watch on each character and
each theme for the books that you're
doing and then after I did that I used
it as a template to blur when I finished
I look back on this m map and I included
things that I missed out and it
basically just helped me to know
everything over time if you do this for
every theme and every character then you
ultimately prepare yourself for anything
even if they use a theme that you
weren't expecting you should hopefully
have enough quotes and enough contents
from the other themes and characters
that you were able to answer this
question after you blur to make the
revision session extra productive why I
recommend you do do is to write a
question on the theme or character you
just blurted and this will just help you
to memorize it in the long term because
not only are you testing that you know
it you're also testing that you can
write about it so ultimately this will
help you improve your grade for the poem
Anthology I really recommend that you
Summarize each poem on a little flash
card and then you can use this to blur
you can turn it over and then write down
on a piece of paper what the poem is
about what the structure is whether it
uses a certain writing style the main
devices the main quotes and then this
will just help you to know everything by
the time it's the exam so that when you
get that random poem that you have to
compare to you already have most of the
content of the other poem already in
your head for things such as unseen
poetry this is ultimately a skill just
like English language you just have to
practice and then you should give in
papers to your teacher so that they can
mark it and make sure you take their
feedback on board even if you get like a
bad grade and you're in a bad mood just
focus on the feedback that they give you
cuz ultimately they do want the best for
you and they do want you to improve so
try not to take anything heart just use
this feedback as motivation to do better
and to get a better grade next time
let's move on to how to is your
structure in English literature when you
write a paragraph you should always
write a point explanation you should
also refer to a language device explode
this device and what it means talk about
the connotations of words and also talk
about the context that the quote is from
make sure that you do this in every
paragraph you really want to go in in
every single paragraph you don't just
want to start off of a nice paragraph
and throughout the essay start to
decrease your quality you want to have a
good all around essay because ultimately
this determines the perception that the
examiner has of you like if you start
off with a really good paragraph and
then you just start to lose all of this
analysis and quality throughout the
essay The Examiner is not going to be
that impressed and it's the same the
other way around if you start off really
bad and then your last paragraph is
really good they can only award you so
many marks so just focus on trying to
have an all round good essay so you
might want to plan what you're going to
write in your head beforehand or just do
a little bit of jotting again you don't
have that much time but something that
used to happen to me a lot is that I
would have a good point and then I would
forget it Midway through the questions
so it was just really annoying for me so
just make sure that you don't do that
and that if you know you have a habit of
forgetting things whilst you're doing
the exam then just drop things down even
if it takes that extra 2 minutes that's
better than not having anything to write
when you com to the question to a your
structure what you want to do is to read
Exemplar essays I've talked about this
so many times that you're probably
getting tired of it honestly what you
want to do is just to see where you're
missing out on marks and how people who
are getting grade NES are structuring
their essays because that's what you
want to aim for with subjects such as
science and maths what you want to aim
for is the MTH scheme but with English
there's not really any clear-cut MTH
scheme what you want to aim for is what
other people are doing that is getting
them the nines and getting them the
eights just start to note down their
structure and then apply it to the
question that you have when you reading
these essays and you see a word that's
like wow I really need to start putting
that essay make sure you write it down
you might want to make a Word document
where you just summarize all of these
really good words and devices that you
can use in your own writing because if
you're just reading all of these essays
and then you move on from it without
making any notes it's not not going to
stick and it's just going to be like a
waste of time so just make sure that you
always make notes from these essays and
always write down the keywords that you
think are really sticking out to you and
really increase the quality of their
writing so you always want to be quoting
in every paragraph when I was writing
essays I really like to implement my
quotes within a sentence so what I mean
by this is I wouldn't just say the
quotation blah blah blah states that
blah blah blah I would just try to embed
it in the sentence so that it reads
smoothly for example this is a sentence
that I found in an exampler essay about
Remy and Juliet the question was
basically asking about how Shakespeare
presents aggressive male behavior in
Remy and Juliet so the student writing
the essay basically Compares Samson to
the other male characters by Samson
joking about how his naked weapon is out
before engaging in a quarrel illustrates
the way that the men in the context of
the play display their masculinity can
you see how that sentence just flows
like if you were just listening to me
reading it without seeing it you would
think that it was just a normal sentence
without quotations but basically they
implemented the quotations within the
sentence it's just a very sophisticated
way of writing so I really recommend
that you start to do this if you haven't
already just you can use onew quotations
throughout your sentences and even like
more than one word as this student has
shown I don't know it just radiates like
grade n material grade8 material so just
start to do this this is much better
than for example if the student said
this Samson says in act one scene one my
naked weapon is out this demonstrates
how he explains his masculinity you can
see the big difference between the two
so if you are the second student and you
write like this to improve you basically
want to act like the first student and
just start embedding your quotations
throughout your text you don't need to
just have one quote and then leave it at
that you really want to start doing this
thing where you embed quotes throughout
your paragraphs and you explode those
quotes forur so that's pretty much it
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