Have you ever wondered what it takes to get an 9 in GCSE English Literature?
If so, then you are at the right place, because today I'll be sharing with you all top 10 advanced
tips on how to get a 9 in GCSE English Literature, and how to get your best and be very satisfied
with it. So, if you're interested to find out the 10 tips, then please keep watching this video till
the end. So these top tips have been gathered based on three areas. Number one, it is based
on my own personal experience and mistakes that I have made in my own GCSE years. Number two, it is
based of my own my sister's school teachers comments and advices on what it actually takes to
get a 9 in GCSE English Literature. Number three, it is based on research tips, or online tips,
or whatever I found on the on the internet in terms of tips on how to get all 9s in GCSEs. So,
you want to stay tuned till the end of this video to find out all of the 10 tips
that I gathered them all for you in this video. Before I move on to the advanced tips,
I want to make sure that you're covering these four basic tips already. First one, it is making
sure that you're looking at the mark schemes, the examiner's reports, as well as the teacher's
comments to make sure you're improving your essay answer every single time you're writing one.
You're making sure that you know exactly what to look for in the examiners' reports,
to make sure that you know exactly what a grade 9 answer looks like and you're looking at the mark
scheme to make sure you know what points actually give you the marks. So, these three resources are
exactly very important for you to really get that grade 9. Second of all, it is making sure that
you're practicing as many past papers as possible because, there's no really point you're looking
at the resources without actually practicing and applying your knowledge. So, you want to practice
as many past papers as possible. Number three, it is making sure they're looking at the online
resources available to you for free, or even paid to revise and study GCSE English Literature. For
example, you want to look at YouTube videos, or summary sheets, or any kind of resources
that actually provide your knowledge base on the novels, or the books, that you might be reading,
or poems if you're doing them, so you want to make sure that you are looking at these free resources,
or even online courses, where they teach you GCSE English Literature in a very wide space and a wide
range as well. Number four, it is making sure that you're sending as much as work as possible
to the teachers, to show that how serious you are to get that grade 9, and how much you're pushing
yourself hard to make sure you can get that 9 as well, and you go beyond the predicted grade. Even
if your predicted grade is a grade 8, there's no harm you're getting a 9 at the end of it, so you
wanna make sure that you're showing off your work to the teachers, and you're following these four
basic tips as soon as possible. Now, I'm gonna moving on to the 6 advanced tips. The first
one, it is making sure you're always pre-planning your model answers, or pre-planning any kind of
questions that might be possibly coming up in the exam, and you're making a model answers for them.
This could be, for instance, creating model answers for Inspector Calls, Romeo and Juliet,
Christmas Carol etc, or any other kind of books, or novels you might be reading.
You want to make sure that all kinds of essay questions that actually do come up in the exam,
you're making a pre-planned model answer, and you can also show this to your own teachers
to make sure that you're on the right track, and they can give you also feedback as well.
You don't have to necessarily always show a full answer to teachers, but you can always show these
kind of model answers, and you can receive a good detailed feedback. At the end of the day,
these teachers are your examiners this year, so you want to make sure that you're following
this tip very thoroughly and making full advantage of it. Tip number two, it is making sure they're
memorizing very important quotes from these texts, or books, or novels that you might be
actually reading for your exams. So, you want to make sure that you are making Quizlet flashcards,
or you're making your own handy on customized flash cards, or you're using any kind of Anki
flashcards, or anything like that, or any kind of resources, to make sure they are memorizing
as many good quotes and very important quotes as much as possible. So that in the exam, whenever
you're writing the answers to support your points, you know exactly which quote you want to write,
and it will come very naturally to you. I believe that they don't give you texts anymore as part of
the exam, so you're not going to have the book with you, so you want to make sure that you are
memorizing these important quotes and important phrases where the characters might be telling
something very important and hence, it might be related to your point. So, that would be my second
so tip. Number three, it is making sure that you know your text inside out, and you want to
basically do this very thoroughly as well because, this tip is going to be very important to you in
terms of how to answer the questions in the exam, because you want to know the text inside out,
and if you don't know, then you're going to be very foggy in answering your questions,
and obviously, that won't give you the 9 that you want. So, you want to make sure that you're
watching the movie probably, or using Spark Notes as a way to summarize and get a basic concept or
basic outlet of the text, or the novel, or the book that you might be reading, so you want to
make sure that you're using these free resources out there to make sure that you understand the
text very well, and you get into the character almost of these textbooks, books. Hence,
make sure that you're using your free resources as well as possible,
and you will eventually get that grade 9. Tip number four, it is making sure that you're writing
always, or asking yourself always when you're writing something, "why" and "how." In that way,
you'll know exactly what you're writing, and that way you'll know also why it is relevant to your
question: "Is this point relevant to my essay question or not? If so, how will I support my
point or, what evidence will I use?" So, always asking "why" and "how" every time you write a
point is very important in an English Literature essay, and I would also suggest for you to write
context as well, or how the points you're writing are to when the play was actually written at the
time, or when the writer was writing this text, or novel, or the author was writing
the book itself. So, you want to make sure that you're relating your points also back to the time
when the author was actually writing the book, so that gives also like kind of like a context,
and that will make you stand out and grant you high level marks as well, because not everybody
will be thinking that way. Make sure that you're writing the "why" and "how" as to why you actually
find this point really relevant, and what is the evidence for you to support yourself,
and also write about the context in terms of when the author might have actually written the novel,
and how the point relates. Number five, it is making sure that every time you're writing a point
in your essay, it's always relevant and linking back to the question that has been asked. So,
if the question is asking you about Romeo's feelings, make sure they are only talking about
Romeo's feelings and nothing else, because that can make you divert away from the actual question,
and you might start be describing yourself too much instead of analysing, and you might
be not answering the question as a result. That can be a really big problematic thing because,
then you might be losing marks, because the question is something and you're writing something
completely different from it. So, you want to make sure that you are aligning yourself with
the question and linking back to the question every single time you're finishing a paragraph,
or a point, so that you know exactly yourself what you're writing, and that can be also helpful
for the teacher as well because it shows your level of understanding of what the question is,
and you are answering it accordingly. Tip number six, it is making sure that you are focusing on
SPAG, also known as Spelling, Punctuation And Grammar. If these three things are not flawless
in your text, or in your essay, then nothing will be, and no matter how good your points are,
no matter how evidence based your points are, or even if you're linked back to the context as I
mentioned before, but, if your Spelling, Grammar And Punctuation is not on point, and it's not
flawless, then it's very hard for you to get a 9. Usually a grade 9 answer is flawless in terms of
Spelling, Punctuation And Grammar, which are very important, and these are also basic skills that
every single GCSE English Literature student, or even GCSE English Language student, should be
implementing in the daily life, and this comes, of course, with practice. Make sure
that you're practicing as many past papers as possible to become a master of SPAG. This
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