GCSE English Literature (AQA)
📚 Course Materials
📝 Exam Structure
- Paper 1: Shakespeare and the 19th-century novel (64 marks, 1 hour 45 minutes)
- Section A: Shakespeare
- Section B: The 19th-century novel
- Paper 2: Modern texts and poetry (96 marks, 2 hour 15 minutes)
- Section A: Modern texts
- Section B: Poetry
- Section C: Unseen poetry
🌐 Websites
- SparkNotes
- Online versions of the full texts
- Plot summaries
- Character analysis
- Theme analysis
📽️ Videos
- Mr Bruff (Youtube)
- Individual videos explaining a range of GCSE texts
- Character analysis
- Theme analysis
- Literature paper walkthroughs
- Mr Salles Teaches English (Youtube)
- Analysis of Grade 9 essays
- Really good Macbeth analysis
- Detailed breakdown of AO1, AO2, AO3
- Helpful for getting top grades