Please do not think that you can waltz into your final exam with no preparation. It is worth 40% of your total GCSE in English language and so is very important.
Read my posts for this exam (AQA GCSE English Language Non-fiction Unit 1). Follow my links to the AQA website (enter GCSE and English Language into the seach options) to have a look at some past papers and look at the powerpoints we have used in class to prepare for this exam. Also, have a look at this website. It has been put together by a leading English teacher with decades of experience and is very useful. If you have invested in the revision booklets for this exam, then read them and do some practise questions.
EQUIPMENT: You will need:
- Highlighers for the exam
- Pens that work
- A reliable watch
- You need to revise the features of different types of writing (ie persuasive, descriptive, informative)
- Presentational features (font, image, headline, size, sub-heading, text box, bullet points etc)
- Language techniques (word choice, register, imagery, figurative language, emotive, technical etc)
- How to address and sign off a letter
- Persuasive techniques (AFOREST)
- Counter argument (Many people think...; however, evidense shows...)
- PEEA (point, evidence, explanation, analysis)
- Writing with a variety of sentence structures and lengths for effect (simple, compound and complex)
- Paragraphs: organising your ideas into pargraphs (3-5 per side of A4)
- Linking ideas using connectives
- Writing with the appropriate register (ie formal or informal) for the task
- Calm reading and picking out the important/relevant facts and techniques
- Comparison - being able to draw links between two different texts (when in doubt just introduce each new point with a comparsion connective ie On the other hand, in contrast etc)
1. Spend first 5 minutes reading the questions in Section A
2. Spend next 10 minutes reading and annotating the texts - picking out relevant language techniques, presentational features to answer the questions - use highlighters and pens for this
3. Spend approx 12 minutes on each 8 mark question
4. Spend 24 minutes on a 16 mark question
5. Spend in total 1 hour on Section A
6. Spend 25 minutes on the first question in Section B
7. Spend 35 minutes on the second question in Section B
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