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I'm very nervous about the speaking exam - I'm afraid that I won't know what to talk about as it's not an easy paper to revise. How do I go about handling mental blocks during the exam?

This is a question many nervous A Level French students ask throughout the academic year after they’ve found out that there is a big jump between GCSE and A Level French. Three elements can be identified in ...
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Answered by Rosen C. • French tutor
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How to write an introduction for an essay

In a close reading extract, make sure you include the context and introduce your topic in your introduction. Then you must include a thesis statement: i.e: your argument and how you will intend on answering ...
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Answered by Rebecca B. • English tutor
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What type of context is relevant and how can I put this in my answer?

Generally, context can be split up into different types such as biographical (anything about the author or poet's life which links to the text), historical (events at the time of the author's writing which m...
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How to tackle the source-analysis questions (Paper 1)?

The most important thing is to remember about 'the 5 W's': Who wrote the source or produced it? (Origin) When? (Origin) Where? (Origin) Why? (Purpose) For whom? Who was the intended audience of the source? (...
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Answered by Karolina M. • History tutor
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What is an argument and how do you construct a good one?

According to ”Learning Legal Skills and Reasoning” by Sharon Hanson, ‘an argument is a series of statements, which are purposely presented in order to prove, or disprove, a given position’. The main differen...
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Answered by Karolina M. • LNAT tutor
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