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How do you prepare for an ELAT exam?

The ELAT examination is designed to test the kind of close reading skills which you will develop during the Oxford / Cambridge course; the best way to prepare is to become as comfortable as possible dealing ...
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Answered by Rhys U. • ELAT tutor
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How do I answer an ELAT question?

The ELAT, although very different from the A-level format should be seen as an exciting challenge rather than a scary task - it gives you lots of freedom to be creative, and as no one has seen the passages b...
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Answered by Anouska L. • ELAT tutor
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Discuss John Milton's Refashioning of Existing Genres and Conventions to Meet 'Fresh Occasions'

Milton constantly adapts, and refashions, the English, and classical, poetic traditions in which he repeatedly and explicitly places himself. This often takes the form of the religious (seen in his Nativity ...
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Answered by Jack C. • ELAT tutor
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Discuss how journeys and journeying are presented in two or three of the passages. Compare and contrast them in any ways that seem interesting to you, paying particular attention to distinctive features of structure, language and style.

INTRO: In the extract from ‘The Rape of Lucrece’ (1594) by William Shakespeare, the extract from ‘Dombey and Son’ (1865) by Charles Dickens, and ‘Amor Mundi’ (1865) by Christina Rossetti, ill-fated journeys ...
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Answered by Elara O. • ELAT tutor
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How do you revise for the ELAT when you don't have any texts to prepare with?

The important thing to remember about the ELAT is that it is not designed to test your memory of knowledge of texts, but instead to test your aptitude and close reading skills , and most importantly, your ab...
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Answered by Megan W. • ELAT tutor
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