Helpful reminders for your Trials

preparation:

AOS
Section 1:

Read the questions carefully, read the questions carefully, read the
questions carefully!
Make sure you do precisely what the questions ask of you look very
carefully at the wording
Be clear about the verb used e.g. identify, explain, analyse,
compare, contrast, discuss and the degree of detail and depth each
expects
Check what the question is worth to determine how much depth to go into
Always in include a quote to support your answer

Section 2:

Make sure the main focus of your piece is DISCOVERY

Use descriptive and figurative language PURPOSEFULLY
Ensure your piece reflects the specific instructions in the question
Explore discovery in a way that shows you understand that it is a complex
and multi-layered notion

Section 3:

Respond to the specific focus of the question

Ensure you have a through-line that ties your response together
Have clear thesis statements that engage with the question
Remember this is a comparative essay so use linking words in your topic
sentences and draw connections between the texts in each paragraph
Be particularly sure you link your second and third body paragraphs the
essay should not read as half an essay on one point and half an essay on a
second point show through-line

Module A

Respond to the specific focus of the question

Ensure you have a through-line that ties your response together so it
doesnt just read as a thematic response
Have clear thesis statements that engage with the question
Remember to provide a balanced discussion of both texts and continually
show how each deepens our understanding of the other
Remember to utilise the suggested structure:
Idea One across paragraphs one and two
Idea Two across paragraphs three and four
Paragraph one for each idea primary focus is
Mrs Dalloway, also show how Daldry
deepens our understanding of it
Paragraph two for each idea primary focus is Daldry, also
show how Mrs Dalloway
deepens our understanding of it

Module B:

Respond to the specific focus of the question

Ensure you have a through-line that ties your response together so it
doesnt just read as a thematic response there should be a wholistic
sense of your personal reading
Have clear thesis statements that engage with the question and reflect
elements of your overall reading
Elements that must come up in your essay:
References to soliloquies
Identification of soliloquies when discussed, e.g. the to be, or
not to be soliloquy References to Act Five
Engagement with the text as a revenge tragedy

Module C:

Respond to the specific focus of the question

Ensure you have a through-line that ties your response together
Have clear thesis statements that engage with the question and engage
with issues of the REPRESENTATION of politics and people.
Elements that must come up in your essay:
Issues of representation
Aspects of politics explored in the poems.