Exam Preparation

• Think about the bigger picture, do not closely analyse. 
• Voice
• Form (poem? novel?)
• Structure
• It is essential to 'pin down' the story at the very start 
• Why is it a key event & where does it occur?
• What is the overall structure of the passage?
• What is its chronology?
• What kind of text am i dealing with?
• What voices are at work? 
• What is the time and place setting?
• What relevant uses of language are there?

• Question is set up as a debate
• You are there to discuss the interpretation offered 
• Show the variety of readings that can come about

KEY WORDS; 

• DEBATE
• DISCUSS
• VARIETY

• You must have an even spread of all  three texts
• No need to compare texts
• If doing poetry, 2 poems is fine; for long poems, one is sufficient 
• No need to quote critics - but you must show there is more than one of responding to a text
• Band six will;
• focus on the task
• make relevent use of apt references
• evaluate writers' methods 
• have sophisticated expression
• be shaped as an arguement