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Relevant for both GCSE and A Level: Every student will have a different way of doing a close reading of a poem. What is important is that a student finds a style with which they are comfortable and confid...

Sonnet 23 depicts a love that paralyses. The lover is compared to an actor who forgot his lines due to his fear and nervousness and loses his mastery of his role, also known as his ‘part’, implying that t...

It could be argued that Iago’s schemes succeed, not because Othello is weak, but because they take such cruel advantage of a noble, easily manipulated man. It is not fair to blame Othello for his own desc...

DNA is comprised of many 'building blocks' known as deoxyribose nucleoside triphosphates (dNTPs). Each dNTP is made of a base (adenine, guanine, cytosine or thymine), bonded to a 5-carbon sugar molecule a...

y = (3x⁴ - 18)/x

The gradient of a tangent to a curve is equal to dy/dx 

However, we must simplify this equation before we can differentiate it;

y = 3x³ - 18/x =...