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Firstly make sure you read the extract. Once initially, just to understand the scene and then again with a pen or a highlighter to underline bits you plan on using in your essay. Take about 5 minutes to anno...

Selecting and memorising quotes can be one the most tedious parts of the revision process. However, it is intrinsic to being able to comfortably and confidently approach any given exam question. When selecti...

The first step to writing an essay is fully understanding what the question is asking of you. Take, for example, a question on 'Of Mice and Men'. What is the importance of dreams in Of Mice and Men? What rol...

What is immediately clear from this extract is Hamlet and his father have, or at least had in the latter’s living years, a close relationship. This is seen by how both characters’ speech contributes to the v...

The perfect place to start is by picking a small section of the text that you want to look at that you find particularly interesting, be it a paragraph of a novel or a couple of lines of a poem. Then you nee...