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Don't be daunted. Unseen questions are there to test your close-reading rather than memory skills. This can be scary but it is also reassuring as you have everything you need in front of you to answer the qu...

The first thing I tell students is when presented with a question, take time to plan. Do not start writing immediately - most of what you will produce won’t be much good. In a lesson, I provide students with...

Corruption refers to a break away from the normal and expected, and this explanation can certainly be seen throughout Shakespeare's tragedy of Hamlet.The death of King Hamlet immediately introduces the theme...

A good way of tackling this can be to go against instinct and look at the form and structure of the text first, and what this might tell us about the poem, before we read to analyse the language and themes. ...

Basic analysis, whilst providing the framework for a deeper investigation into your material, is less likely to be awarded highly by your examiner. Where basic analysis looks at the general themes and points...