r/ALevelEnglishLit

Hey everyone! i’m going into year 12 soon and have picked my fav subject (ofc literature) for a level:))
I really really want atleast an A or A* in this subject but i’m currently on a 7/8ish but hopefully a 9 in the real gcse🙏 if anyone has any advice/ tips whatsoever on how to get ahead, or what you wish you would’ve done to get a better grade please drop some advice. At the moment i’ve only done the plot of othello which i find super interesting !
Another question id like to know is what revising for the subject looks like- and is it much different to gcses? even now im not quite sure on how to revise here’s what i currently do:
watch a plot summary+read the book,
character analysis, quotes by character, analysis, themes, context, motifs.
i understand a level is much more demanding than gcse level therefore id be very willing to know how to revise to get an A*, or is it just practicing writing a lot of essays?

So I’m year 11 and I’m planning on doing English lit next year, mostly due to my parents and I’m actually so scared, like I’m not ready, so please recommend me some good reads so that I can atleast feel more sophisticated, and prepare myself to be reading a lottt more. I like reading but compared to everyone else doing the a level, I feel like an outsider since I’ve had basically no experience with reading many classics and older books

English language teachers, how well do you think google gemini mark the language papers?

Because I’m a student and I rely a lot on those markings so if they’re inaccurate I’m a bit cooked🙈

Now that the exams are over, what are everybody's predicted questions for the 2027 AQA paper?

I'm curious about what everybody's teachers are saying. As far as I've been told, they predict -

- Women in Othello (Desdemona, maybe Emilia?)

- Something class-related for Gatsby and Poetry, or maybe even settings?

Hi so I’m in year 11 and I wanna know what I can do to get a head start on A level English Lit. I just don’t want to feel underprepared going into year 12. I know I should probably start with reading the books but then afterwards I’m not entirely sure surrounding the things I should do or the resources I should use. Any help would be appreciated thanks.

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Okay so you know how you set up and answer your own question, i really don’t know how to structure my poetry question.

My teacher said to do a critique quote and an evaluative statement but i just don’t know how.

Does anyone know where i even start with this? Because everything i submit just is not good enough

I’m doing post colonialism for poetry if this changes anything

This is my first post on here but I am beyond desperate.
I'm meant to have chosen two coursework books by Friday 26th and I am completely lost.
I do The Handmaid's Tale, Frankenstein, A Streetcar Named Desire, Othello (not yet started), modern poetry and John Keats poetry for Edexcel a level English Literature.
I really enjoy streetcar and I liked handmaids but I tried The Glass Menagerie by Williams but it wasn't a bit of me I don't think.
I like using critical theory like the unconscious mind, symbols, feminist readings.
I was going to do The Great Gatsby and American Psycho but I was lost on points of comparison but my teachers are quite against doing texts that we did lower down in the school again more critically (for context we did The Great Gatsby in year 9 but I got my own copy and annotated it myself because I was so into it, nerd I know)
Please please please send me some advice and help guys, I will read as many of the recommendations as possible and I would really appreciate the help.
I've been struggling recently but I go to a grammar school with very high expectations and I need AAB to go to university and I'm aiming for an A in literature.
Thank you so much everybody!